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Originally Posted by timebug
I too found Caroline Graham's novels about Tom Barnaby to be...not very good!
In fact, downright poor mostly! If I had read the books first, I doubt I would have ever watched the Tv 'Midsommer Murders'. As it was, I watched every episode with John Nettles as Tom Barnaby and loved them. Once Neil Dudgeon was slotted in in his place, I abandoned the show. He may have been told to make his characterisation 'different' to John Nettles version; he managed to make his John Barnaby the most dull, morose and boring character going!
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I agree that the Neil Dudgeon version has NOT been as good as the Nettles version. Don't know why, really. I mean...I know that the original developer and showrunner left the show and I think that's a huge part of it.
Of course, OTOH, other folks may feel very differently--the original showrunner came under a
lot of fire for the show. (For lack of diversity, etc.). One small example of a difference--used to be, on MSM, that you always, always saw horses. Going through a village, being hacked, etc. Now, you never do. Not a big thing--it was always a passing incident--but it does change the
feel of the show.
Hitch