Robin Hood Reinvented

BBC is about to launch a new drama, Robin Hood 2006, is touted as a new reworking of the classic. Loosing the tights and adding contemporary sharp tongued dialogue should see this series live up to the standard BBC 1 should be producing. The cast is strong and not overrun by the typical BBC Drama faces.  I really hope that after the chaos of having the rushes stolen, this production can turn their fortunes around and Jonas Armstrong (Teachers, The Ghost Squad) should prove a wise casting as the new Robin.

On a side note, what does bug me, is that for all the cash the Beeb plows into their multimedia friendly site, why are they still using Real player for the distribution of their online video content?!? If you can suffer through it, the Robin trailers are here.