The BBC has sold out to the U.S. market, simple as that. A prime example of the tripe the BBC is producing at the moment is Robin Hood. There has never been a take on Robin Hood that could cram such intense levels of vacuous, inaccurate, meaningless drivel into such a pointless exercise. The non-violent stance of Robin Hood is the stuff of the A-Team, this combined with truly stupid stunts and extremely poor fight choreography gets the BBC the award for the ‘most appalling Robin Hood ever conceived’. The clothes are often pseudo-modern in style with the most ridiculous excuse for Norman armour that I have ever seen. There is a Sarusan women wearing a combat jacket, Lord of the Rings style acrobatics such as deathslides on a bow and a sense of inflation in everything that only a dumbwitted American audience would suck up this shit. Maybe I am too harsh on the Amercians, TV in the UK is now almost the utter tripe it is in the US (but without the HBO), and Robin Hood has been getting the same old positive reviews pumped out as a standard for BBC trash programming (ie Torchwood and Dr Who). (Too many good BBC lunches for journos I think).

Did the makers of this program do any research? Did they just think ‘The yanks are already stupid we can make any drivel and it’ll sell’. I’m not saying that Robin Hood should be some serious look at the gritty reality of being a bandit in the 12th century (approx). Robin Hood is a romance that has changed over the years. Michael Praed arguably the best Robin Hood in ‘Robin of Sherwood‘ which is definitely the finest series about the ‘hooded man’ ever made, conveys a far deeper and interesting take on Robin. Exploring his pagan links with Hern the Hunter and as such draws a far more accurate version of Feudal England than has ever been portrayed in a Robin Hood themed series/film. Of course it was romanticised but it WAS NOT AMERICANISED.

The new Robin Hood series is an absolute disgrace pumping the viewing expectations of an American audience into our heritage, twisting a fine story into a non-violent pantomime, making a laughable tragedy of one of our most treasured heroes. Now he is some ‘emo‘ passifist wimp that makes me want to vomit. (why couldnt they do a story about Robin coming back from the Crusades?!!) Jonas Armstrong looks far too much like Steven Hendry for me to take him seriously as an actor, let alone as Robin Hood for gods sake.

THE BBC,  YOU HAVE SOLD OUT. YOU PANDER TO THE AMERICAN MARKET AND CHARGE ME FOR THE PLEASURE OF WATCHING YOU BUTCHER OUR HERITAGE.

p.s. Keith Allen has allways been crap.