Vic and Bob plan a movie set in a hotel

Vic and Bob plan a movie set in a hotel
Vic and Bob plan a movie set in a hotel (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Vic Reeves has revealed he and Bob Mortimer are planning to make a film together about life in a hotel. The comedy duo are moving on from Shooting Stars being axed and are aiming for the big screen, but insist they won't be taking influence from Fawlty Towers or Channel 4 documentary The Hotel. Vic revealed: "We're doing another show which is top secret and we're writing a film. It's probably going to be about a hotel and some people trying to make a hotel work." He added: "Its going to be nothing like Fawlty Towers, it's going to be more like a Mike Leigh film." And the former I'm a Celebrity star said he wasn't inspired by reality TV show The Hotel either. He said: "Bob's seen that, but I haven't seen it. It's not inspired by that, we had the idea a long time ago and we're kind of working on that at the moment." And as for the death of Vic and Bob's long-running panel show Shooting Stars, he holds no grudges. Vic said: "It's good to have a full stop and then move on. We finished on a high and we're moving on nicely."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.