Olé!

Last night saw the penultimate episode of Benidorm transmitted on ITV1.  I don’t read reviews but I am concerned what the viewers think and reckon feedback is really important; I love seeing what people did or didn’t like in an episode but as far as critics are concerned, what is the point of reading just one person’s opinion?  Surely it’s better to read a hundred and see what the average reaction is.  So I typed ‘Benidorm’ into twitter and hit search.  So from reading well over a hundred (probably a lot more than that, I lost count) reactions from last nights episode I think there is one conclusion which as creator, writer and associate producer of the show I cannot ignore, Jake Canuso needs to publish his own calendar for 2010!  Who’d have thought someone stamping their feet with their shirt off would cause such a reaction?  So next Friday sees the final episode of series 3 of Benidorm, who’d have thought six weeks would have flown by so quickly?  Thanks to all those who have emailed, written, texted and Twittered me to ask if ITV have commissioned another series.  The pessimistic answer to that question would be “no’, the optimistic answer, “not yet”.  All I can say with confidence (in these financially uncertain times) is that far as this show and these characters are concerned, as in the words of the old Al Martino song ‘Spanish Eyes’, “This is just adiós and not goodbye….”

Jake Canuso as Mateo in Episode 5 of Benidorm