Wonder why itv3 or itv4 have never shown The Bill

They did back in 2007

I too hope that Drama don't drop the Bill - I remember loving the Kate Spears storyline (I'm thinking she's not too far away now as I saw a poster mention Rawton will be leaving soon and I remember her and Kate being in a few episodes together) and I also loved Des and Reg, and the storyline where Luke returns and has a fling with sergeant Gilmore. these are vague memories though so I may have some of it wrong!

Such a shame I was looking forward to Beech'a downfall and the Beech on the Run eps loved Claire and John back in the day! Would have been nice to see up to the big fire/explosion that got rid of a few of the Chandler lot IIRC

Got a backlog of 12 episodes. Watched 'Walking the Line' and it was a great episode. Good theme of racism, nice to see Gary involved for once. But I am starting to see a theme that an officer's job seems to be on the line every episode, which is a bit repetitive. It's a common trend with the Burnside episode - Burnside begs Meadows for one last chance, Meadows says that if he messes up, he'll be to blame, and lets Burnside off the hook, rinse and repeat.

I am also changing my view of the golden era of The Bill. Initially, I thought it was 1998-2000 but ever since the Sun Hill Boulevard episode (barring the Jim Carver episodes and the Xmas episodes), there has been a bit of a drop in quality. A lot more duller episodes than previously.

I actually think that, consistency wise, the era that was best was 1998-September 1999. In particular, the first half of 1999 was superb. The Badlands episodes, The Rosie/Eddie Santini saga, other notable episodes being Tinderbox, Borderline, Critical Mass, Sun Hill Boulevard, all very strong episodes. We have started to see soapier elements coming in and it's easy to see where it started...the protracted Garfield/Quinnan/Jenny/Polly love square.

I think i am going to get some more of the box sets from Australia in the new year

I'm gutted that Drama will be stopping The Bill soon. I can only hope that they show more episodes at some point in the future. Maybe it's just going to be off the air temporarily?

The last episode I've watched was 'Haunted' with Claire, Duncan and Tom recalling creepy things that happened on different cases they've worked on. I didn't like this episode... it was very different and quirky, but I don't think it worked.

I've seen the schedule to 11th January and there's still no Bill.

I think it is probably a certainty that the run of repeats is about to come to an end.

I would have liked to see the repeats run to at least the end of the episodes shown in 2000.

There is a "Contact Us" form at the main UKTV website if anyone wants to contact them to ask about their future plans for showing old episodes of The Bill but I have read elsewhere in the past that they don't always reply.

http://corporate.uktv.co.uk/about/contact-us/

I asked them about the bill last week still have not got a reply

could you pm me the site where you get them from please

OK i have done

Ditto, except I wrote to them the week before.

I was hoping that someone had seen further into the new year schedule and informed us that it would be back on... Why start running it only to take it off? Some of the best episodes are yet to come.. Grr! I would like a PM also please

I think we'll have to wait until May until Watch picks up from where Drama left off. At least Watch will most likely continue with The Bill because they've always stuck with The Bill. Drama - I'm not surprised they've dropped it. Alibi did the same thing - back in 2009, they got up to mid-2001 and then it disappeared.

June by my reckoning (128 episodes), but far too long to wait.

I note that when The Bill returns to Watch in the New Year (9:00 Tuesday 7th Jan) with the first hour-long series since the early days, they are omitting the first episode, DEEP END, which sees the start of the Rosie Fox / Eddie Santini storyline so the following episodes won't make much sense to anyone viewing for the first time. These channels seem to have contempt for their audience and little respect for the programmes they are putting out.

I noticed it's season 14 that's been shown on watch staring 6th Jan, I'm looking forward to it,

It's interesting they've changed the schedule since my last message above, as "The Party's Over" was due to show at 9:00 on Tuesday 7th but is now at 10:00 on Monday 6th. But they're still not showing "Deep End", the first of series 14 which drives the whole week's episodes. Maybe it's too violent for that time of the morning, but Drama showed it last September, albeit with a small edit.

Watched the 2 parter Up In Smoke last night, loved it, Jim was hilarious, pi$$ed as a fart, messed up at court, then when he went to see Meadows, hes was out of his skull, falling all over the shop, was hilarious when they dragged him across the floor by the arms into the FME office

Then after that they stuck him in the back of the van, which then got took out to pickup a drunk from a pub, which when they got and opened the door of the van to shove him in, heres Jim getting up, and staggers straight into the pub

UKTV seem to no longer reply to any viewer emails or to anything on twitter either they obviously have enough income that they don't need to bother about what people might like to know.

It appears Drama are dropping The Bill in favour of Lovejoy and Just Good Friends which is on the schedules from 2nd Jan onwards.

I love Just Good Friends, be nice if they kept The Bill on as well though, been great watching all the old ones again, were some brilliant characters in them times.

Was that the old woman from Benidorm that Jim shagged to death!

Just watched The Haunted one, really enjoyed it, im guessing they were playing a prank on her at the end, when she found that guy that had been hit over the head, and he was telling her not to let him hang, before disappearing

The wedding one was pretty good as well, i was lmfao when Tony said to Polly, after she told him about the woman going to commit suicide, 'i hope she gets on with it'