WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO TAKE PLACE?
We WILL be filming again at the beginning of October. On the first day, when I first came back and started shooting The Wolf Hunter Of Little Worthy, it was all on a glamping site. It was all well in the middle of summer – except that everyone was far away and wearing masks. I thought, ‘This is weird and very weird and a little weird’, and within about 15 minutes I was questioning Mark Williams and Sean Redmond about whether he murdered they are someone. I wandered back into the world of Midsomer with the terrifying fear.
WAS SOCIAL INFORMATION POSSIBLE FOR SHOP PROGRAMS?
Midsomer is a very physically friendly set, if I may put it that way. There’s a lot of hand-hugging, hugging and kissing in the mornings, that kind of thing, and that has to stop. Sometimes you ask, ‘What’ s the point of working without that? ‘. But we have struggled.
WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THE FORTHCOMING EPISODES?
We shot two pre – Christmas programs, which are due to be broadcast soon, I believe. The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy and The Stitches Society, we did that before Christmas. And then we met again in January and burned another program. There’s the Stitcher Society – it’s a program about a city where a lot of people have heart problems and they’re all of a certain age or age like mine. Also, that ‘s Nimmy March – some older viewers may remember a series back with the name Common As Muck from the mid – 90s.
CAN WE DO INTO ANOTHER FAMILY WORD?
In that program, there was a young man who appeared on a set that I had seen in a whole series. His name is Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, who is in the Queen’s Gambit, which is excellent. And then our set was amazing … In the program The Sting Of Death is Griff Rhys Jones, who was interesting and funny and very funny to spend some time with. And then too I have to mention Derek Griffiths, who was a hero in my youth from Playschool and Play Away and those are things when I was a tiny little boy.
IT’S NOW A TIME OF 10 YEARS TO ENTER THE DUTIES OF DCI JOHN BARNABY …
I never had any idea it would go on so long. They said to come in and do some Midsomer programming and I thought, ‘I’ll give it a try. I hope that I do not destroy the show within one program because that would be a shame to me, after making John Nettles so wonderful for 13 years and burying him within one program ‘. That would be a real shame for me. But we got through that first series and then they wanted to do it again and I thought ‘Hurray!’, And I put back the faith of the people who submitted me.
HAVE YOU MADE A POLICY OFFICER FOR HIM?
In Midsomer, there are always a lot of people who could [want to] you kill and they are all lying and they are all very hard to knock down. But, in real life, you find out that some people have been murdered and you go ‘Where was his wife? ‘And she was standing next to him with the big knife in her hand. So, I think we would be fine. I do the thinking and Nick [Hendrix, co-star] running around dragging people into lakes and stuff like that.
:: The new series of Midsomer Murders is now broadcast on ITV