One of the stars of new British comedy Mindhorn has said that he wanted to pay homage and not just sent up the tacky detective TV shows of his youth.
In the movie, which is in Irish cinemas now, Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh plays Richard Thorncroft, the boozy and self-deluded former star of fictitious 1980s' British TV show Mindhorn.
Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment, actor Simon Farnaby said: "Julian and I have a love of those single name, maverick detectives like Beregac, Rochford, Wycliffe, Spender, Shoestring . . . and we thought how can we do that not as a parody but as a homage to the genre and have fun with it without just doing a parody."
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"It is a kind of familiar character - the guy who just doesn't get how arrogant he is," added Mindhorn director Sean Foley. "He is actually immensely stupid, he's an idiot but he doesn't seem to know it."
