I HEAR there are plans for a new sitcom billed as a modern-day take on the Liver Birds.
The ITV show is being created by Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong and will feature two women, about to reach their thirties, and sharing a flat.
No news about whether it will be in Liverpool, but I hope not - you can't replicate what was one of the seminal sitcoms of the Seventies.
I remember loving the Liver Birds as a child, even if as a five-year-old I probably wasn't exactly sure where Liverpool was (we lived in the Midlands).
And glam though Sandra and Carol were, Lucien was actually my favourite and I'd do impressions of him saying 'don't touch me rabbits. I'll get angry, and you wouldn't like it if I got angry.'
Bizarre, but there you go.
I also went through a phase, much to my mum's annoyance, of parroting my great aunt's 'posh' Scouse accent (she was a shop assistant at Owen Owen while another great aunt was in the millinery department at George Henry Lee's) and deliberately saying 'ta-ra', tatties, sarnies etc at every available opportunity.
I got a few slaps round the back of the leg for that I can tell you.
But obviously my child's sub-conscious was telling me something, because here I am, 30-odd years later, an honorary Liver Bird myself.
Of course, a modern day Carol and Sandra just won't be the same. And I bet there won't be any rabbits in it either.
