Dead Ringers Axed
The BBC has reportedly axed its impressionist show Dead Ringers after seven television series’.
Tabloid newspaper The Mirror is reporting that the BBC has axed its long-running impressionist series, Dead Ringers. The series originally started on Radio Four before crossing over to television and has so far run for seven series’. Amongst its stars are Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwall and Kevin Connelly but apparently the series won’t be back.
“It’s bizarre, there was no announcement or anything. The producer just rang me and said it’s not going to be re-commissioned. It would be nice to make an announcement or do a farewell edition of the show.” – Jan Raven talking to The Mirror
No one was safe from Dead Ringers as they impersonated everyone from George W. Bush to Tom Baker, EastEnders characters to James Blunt. The Tom Baker sketches, probably one of the things the series is best known for, featured Jon Culshaw pretending to the fourth Doctor and confusing various members of the unsuspecting public. It was one of the elements carried over from the radio series where Culshaw would ring up famous people and pretend to be the 4th Doctor.