Cop Out: Reg Hollis Is Cut From The Bill
“HORROR AT TV STUDIO,” screams the Sun’s front page. “BILL’S REG SLASHES WRISTS. Legends suicide bid after sacking.”
Will it help the Bill’s Reg to know that at the moment of his most desperate, when at his lowest ebb he is made known to millions by his on-screen name?
If PC Reg Hollis, sorry, Jeff Stewart, were worried about what life holds in store after being stripped of his uniform, he need fret no longer.
Reg survives, and with it his chance to appear sat on a bar stool in a pub waiting to be approached by fans.
“Evening all, Reg”, they say, offering to take down his particulars, and should Reg react unfavourably, falling headfirst down the stairs…
Posted: 9th, January 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 1st, 2009 at 6:05 am
Seems like his is a case of art imitating life. Reg was a link to what the police forces were like back in the ’80’s when the human component was still a big art of the job. In real life I see many old large organisations such as the police re-inventing themselves at the expense of the people who have kept them going all these years. It’s true that The Bill has sunk to the level of a trashy soap and is almost indistinguishable from all of the other Cop shows out there. But then again so is most of the world.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Disgrace, the Bill is now a trashy soap, Reg is a TV ledgend with many more years left, sack the dreadful script writers and producers not Reg Hollis, IM TUNEING OUT FOR GOOD IF HE GOES!
February 13th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I have watched ‘The Bill’ from day one. Jeff Stewart sacked? Well, it’s obvious what’s going on here - the show is going down the tubes. When the viewing figures of any show start to slide, the first thing they do is introduce ‘controversial’ story lines. When that doesn’t work (and it rarely does for long) they have a clear out of all the characters that have made the show successful (roll the the Sun Hill bomb episode…)…then they start to copy successful storylines from other shows (oh, we have a nutter in Eastenders…then in Corrie…we gotta get a nutty cop!)…
…oh, dear me.
Are we going to let ‘The Bill’ sack Reg? Far from it. We should positively encourage Jeff to sack ‘The Bill’! The show is on the slide. No-one wants to see the police arrest the bad guys only for the law to be trashed by yob culture as entertainment. If you want to see a show like that, just turn on your local news. Why were ‘The Sweeney’ and ‘Life on Mars’ so popular?
…ooh, now let me think? Could it be the car chases and the toe-rags getting a good kicking? No, that would be far too politically incorrect…
Time for Jeff to take off the police uniform and play some other roles. Personally I’d watch anything that he was in - this guy is a great character actor, and there are all too few of those around. The show is sinking into a sea of soap, and it would be a tragedy if it were to drag down an actor of Jeff’s calibre.
Oh, and one more thing. If Jeff was allowed to sink to the level of thinking that there would be no acting life for him outside ‘The Bill’ then it’s time his agent proved otherwise…either that or it’s time he got a new agent as well.
Good luck, Jeff. Looking forward to seeing you in a show that is better than the one ‘The Bill’ has become.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:00 am
they have obviously forgotten how many times Reg’s observations and people skills have led the “beautiful people” inCID to solve a crime. I predict a rise in unsolved crimes.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
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January 16th, 2008 at 3:15 am
A sad colonial grieves at the professional demise of Reg Hollis but not, I hope, of Jeff Stewart. Reg not only made his colleagues look crass (reasonably difficult) but made Australian police look good (pretty easy). Vale Reg, can’t wait to see you, splay feet and all, chase a crim in your next series.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
To Reg.
Just like to say thanks for one of the most , if not the most, memorable characters on British TV Drama. A true celebrity and another victim of the the empty, soulless “Dumb Down” and “Sex up” society emerging in recent years.
All the best.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
what is happening to the bill with all these new stupid characters coming in and what are they thinking of sacking ‘reggie babe ‘ the only original cast member left and also one of sunhills finest and comical characters BRING BACK REG
January 9th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
He could have been written out after being off sick for 12 months with stress like all the others do. It would have boosted his pension as well. Programme not as realistic as it was supposed to be.
January 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
The world has gone crazy. How can ITV possibly think of getting rid o one of the greatest police officers of all time? Heads, quite frankly, should not only roll, but placed atop the spiky bits of rozzers’ helmets.
Unless sanity intervenes, I may well move my family and businesses to france as I would not feel safe sleeping in my bed at night.
Let’s keep The Regster!
January 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Now Paul’s got an idea there, Reg’s avatar is into bikes’s I believe so a sort of privatised Chips could be on the cards (sorry has he been given them yet?)
January 9th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
If Reg goes then so do I.
He was the only funny bloody thing left on the Bill. I still laugh when I think back of his antics over the years. Reg has been slowly shuffled to the sidelines as the Bill has got soapier. I miss the old shows when you didn’t see anything about their private lives, just the crime plots.
Sacked! He should be given his own spin-off show, he could join up with Tony Stamp and move to Brighton and open a private detective agency.
January 9th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Reg sacked? What a bloody disgrace! No wonder the country is over-run with yobs, rapists and drug dealers. I call on Gordon Brown to hold commissioner Blair personally responsible for this situation.