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As revealed here last month, Echo Beach has been ditched and the new series will focus on the same writing staff working on a pilot for a new zombie show.
Dave Lamb, who plays Carl (pictured), tells me: "Echo Beach is not coming back, but there's something in Jonathan Pope's contract that means they can't sack him. He has to be allowed to make a pilot. So he attempts to make this pilot involving zombies!"
Unlike Echo Beach, the new zombie series will not air as a separate entity but instead clips of the show will be "interwoven" into Moving Wallpaper.
Lamb, also the narrator on Channel 4's excellent Come Dine With Me, adds of the show's ratings: "In cold hard figures, it didn't do brilliantly but it got the right demographic. It was a very untypical ITV1 audience, and people did stick with it, so it did do well. I thought it got stronger and I'm also very, very pleased with the scripts for this series as well. I've only seen the first three but they're really strong."
The new series airs in early 2009.
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Dee, Hove, on August 6th, 2008
I'm looking forward to it. I did used to watch both, but really you were only watching Echo Beach to try and spot things that had been mentioned in Moving Wallpaper. And MW was really very funny, brilliant one liners - it had me weeping with laughter every episode. Loved the 'slip on mint imperial and fall on fork' moment. Brilliant.
I'm looking forward to it. I did used to watch both, but really you were only watching Echo Beach to try and spot things that had been mentioned in Moving Wallpaper. And MW was really very funny, brilliant one liners - it had me weeping with laughter every episode. Loved the 'slip on mint imperial and fall on fork' moment. Brilliant.
Benny, London, on August 5th, 2008
Oh.... I Loved Echo Beach.. tut.
Oh.... I Loved Echo Beach.. tut.
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Oh know thats not fair, I loved watching Echo Beach, its such lovely scenery and it was a nice romantic storyline :-) slush slush!