Get Dixon of Dock Green on the blower. See if DCI Burnside of Sun Hill is still kicking about ('Tosh isn't, sadly). A lack of security staff for the 2012 Games has led a senior police figure to recommend that veteran officers are brought out of retirement for the Olympics. Having outlined a £600 million pound security plan earlier in the year, officials are now concerned that there simply won't be enough able and......

Londonist asks if Croydon is turning into the new Kings Cross, as yet another brothel is raided and shut down. Ealing authorities reckon real actors from The Bill will give a new anti-kiddie-crime documentary enough clout for it to be effective. It is part of a programme to be unrolled in West London schools. Lee Jasper’s deputy is forced to resign over illicit luxury beano to Nigeria. And for being daft enough to lie......

If Sun Hill were a real 'burb of London, then Londonist would want to live there, if only to have plucky PC Reg Hollis as our neighbourhood bobby. So it was with some distress that we heard Jeff Stewart, the actor who has played Hollis in The Bill for over two decades, apparently slashed his wrists after being informed his contract on the ITV show would not be renewed. Stewart was rushed to hospital,......

We're very excited. After years of overdosing on the American cop/detective/legal thriller franchises it looks like we're finally getting our own. Law and Order's crossing the pond. Of course, we'd prefer CSI but beggars can't be choosers. We love The Bill but its East End beat patrol and trademark frontline grit put it at the other end of the entertainment scale to L&O which deals with the more cerebral end of arrest and trial,......

North Kent Police are planning to plant some evidence in the near future, and are looking for suggestions as to what/who to put in the frame. To celebrate the completion of a new and very expensive police station (complete with a shopping mall and restaurants apparently)(Copper Coffee? Cop Shop? Ye Olde Bill? this could be fun) at Northfleet (which is near enough to London to make us interested), some bright spark has suggested burying......

Well this was kind of inevitable: A drama about a Brazilian man killed by police in London is being filmed... Mango Films will focus on events before the death of Jean Charles de Menezes - mistaken for a suicide bomber - and the impact on London's Brazilian community. Hmmm. For every great movie like United 93 there seems to be a complete mess like World Trade Center so it's a worry as to how......

January is, as every primary school kid knows, named after Janus, the double-headed Roman god of gates, doors, beginnings and endings. It's appropriate, then, that this month will see so many of both; we mourn the passing of Lost (Wed 10pm C4) and Rome, and rejoice at the phoenix-like rise of ER (Mon 10pm C4) and Desperate Housewives (currently being trailered on C4). Neither individually will be really sufficient to fill the gap left......

Our beloved mayor Ken has written an opinion piece in the most recent Pink Paper (STILL no proper website -- we're going to keep reminding them until they sort this out.) Since we figure most of you don't pick up the Pink Paper on a regular basis, we thought we'd keep you updated with what Ken is saying to the gays. He begins by briefly praising the Civil Partnership Act which is about to......

Isn’t it lovely weather today? Well, let’s hope it stays this nice for the rest of the week, as there’s pretty much bugger-all coming up on the idiot box, if you ignore Big Brother (Craig and Kinga in the hot tub is definitely not mind-safe, but will she manage to smarm up to Derek enough to get him to save her?). There are the usual tired old warhorses of the schedules - Casualty, The......

A protest against the perceived lack of support from the Chelsea suits? Or the latest psychological master-stroke from the golden child of European football? Your guess is as good as ours, all we do know is that Jose Mourinho is not going to be at Stamford Bridge tonight for Chelsea's Champions League tie against Bayern, choosing instead to watch the game on tv at a 'secret location'. Surely the 'secret' aspect is a bit......

As Homer Simpson once said: "Television - teacher, mother, secret lover!" And he was right. Indeed, if the report over at the BBC today is correct, the UK public seem to derive most of their opinions from TV dramas: "Almost half of the UK population form their opinions about crime and the police from television dramas, a new survey has revealed." Out of 2500 people questioned 34% of people voted London as the UK's......

Forget GTA: Sand Andreas. The sun's too bright, everyone and his dog owns a gun, and they drive on the right for God's sake. No, if you want a real, virtual driving experience (does that make sense?) then you have to come to London, and that means getting your hands on The Getaway: Black Monday. Released on Monday 12, Black Monday has once again been developed by Sony's team in Soho, but this time they've......