"Stephen Tompkinson to play Eddie Braben in BBC biopic"
Stephen Tompkinson? OK, I'll buy and maybe the Ernie actor but the Eric Morecambe? Good God no - why didn't they use the chap from the "Eric and Ernie" TV biopic from about 5 years ago? He was absolutely brilliant and did at least look like him.
Cannot understand why, if you are going to make something like this that you at least try and get somebody who looks like the person.
There's more to it than putting black horn-rimmed glasses on somebody and saying "Get out of that" "Short fat hairy legs" "Tea Ern?" Anyone can do that and you instantly know who they are trying to impersonate - he just looks like Paul Whitehouse on a bad day.
No, if you are going to do this, at least get someone who looks like the subject - NOT someone who looks nothing like them.
