WEEKEND VIEW.
YOU can take the woman out of Howards' Way but you can't take the Howards' Way out of the woman.Jan Harvey, who plays the boss of a team of 21st Century crimebusters in Bugs (BBC1), keeps using the same worried expression she perfected as the wife of the boatyard boss in the 80s yachting saga.
She is referred to as the DOIC. It stands for Director Of Intelligence Co-ordination, but Dumb One In Charge is nearer the mark. She allowed a city financier who was being blackmailed to keep a rendezvous with the crooks - and he ended up dead. Cue much furrowing of the brow. The silly banker only had himself to blame but DOIC felt responsible.
Her shrink told her not to be silly but there was no way she was going to give up that worried look.
Luckily action not acting is the name of the game. The show was packed with gadgets and gismos and you needed an A-level in computer studies to work out what was going on. The tech was so high it went way over my head. A villain attempted to take over the world's banking system via the Internet.
What baffled me was the world was empty.
There was no sign of any other people. Beckett (Jesse Birdsall) and Ros (Jaye Griffiths) foiled the plot but Ros was shot during the cliffhanger ending as she absailed down one of the many deserted buildings.
"I don't think she is going to make it," said DOIC.
No prizes for guessing what look she had on her face.
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| Title Annotation: | Features |
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| Author: | Purnell, Tony |
| Publication: | The Mirror (London, England) |
| Date: | Aug 23, 1999 |
| Words: | 263 |
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