being someone who grew up with postman pat im disappointed with the modern twist! but having said that im sure it will appeal to modern yoof, no doubt he will be delivering ASBOs and restraining orders too?

now if only the royal mail could do as well as pat instead of 'loosing' 30% of my play.com orders.

They should make it a bit more realistic and equip him with a pile of "you were out" cards. He could then spend each episode tip-toeing up to the door, popping a card through and then sprinting back to his van before the homeowner can get to the door.

Now the kids can post live animals, perishable good, massive parcels.

Will it show you travelling 30 miles to pick it up?, beacuse suprise suprise you wern't in at 11 30am Monday?

Or popping round you neighbours house because posty couldn't be bothered to read the address (or can't read English)

Or maybe show the person waiting patiently for 6 weeks, hoping that the cd from Amazon hasn't got "lost".

Or maybe watching someone being stung a £1 for some junk mail becuase it was 1g over weight?

So, will the modern Pat be blocking the outside lane of the Pencaster bypass in his 40 ton post truck?

they were updating it modern standards in the job Pat would be out his face and man made chemicals and nicking the new credit cards and money from birthday cards sent to little johnny

then it would be more like the postal service round my way

Flame On

After viewing the comparison, I conclude both versions are unrealistic. The old version harks back to a Post Office of 50 years ago. The modern version is generic animation with a posties hat on.

A correct, modern version would have Pat doing nothing until about 2 in the afternoon, and then meandering about delivering letters, occasionally to the right place, before 5pm when he dumps the rest in the canal or in the back of his car for tomorrow.

At least I think that's what they must be doing in our area.

What an absolute crock.

Additionally, what rubbish production values. The CGI and bluescreen are ridiculously obvious - watch Pat's mouth if nothing else.

What a travesty of quick cash over quality and new ideas.

Pat (the real one, not this cyber clone) would be rolling in his grave.

Safety goggles - otherwise you may wish to tear your eyes out.

Greendale village post office has closed forceing pensioners to travel miles on non existent rural public transport to get to a post office in the nearest city.

Pat is now part of a low wage expendable work force dependent on technology to substitute job experience and training. Presumably management assigned him to deliver non junk mail in recognition of his long service (in the hope he will injure himself and retire so the position can be filled by lower waged staff).

P.S. Where are all the new icons you promised us? and can we have a where's the Postman Pat angle icon?

Yeah, because kids these days love fast paced explosive action sequences. So it's perfectly fine to butcher these old shows for the sake of the ritalin-popping hyperactive little shits.

Here's an idea. Do another show instead of ruining an old one. There was a time where people actually thought up new ideas rather than making old ones "better".

I was shocked to see that Thomas The Tank Engine now all have CGI'd faces. Looks very creepy IMO.

Bring Back Mysterious Cities Of Gold, Gummi Bears and the like. Kids TV was much better when I was young.

This "makeover" looks like a convinent ploy to flog more Postman Pat merchandise and toys.

Pat's phone rings

Phone: Hello Pat, this is Mr Pratt from the Home Office. We need you help.

Pat: Hello Mr Pratt, Special Delivery services at your service

Phone: We've lost some CD's

Pat: Oh that sounds bad.

Phone: Yes, they contained all the personal information of everybody in Grendale and Pencaster.

Pat: Oh that is bad. I assume you had them send by a secured delivery courier?

Phone: Eh No.

Pat: Well at least by recorded delivery?

Phone: Eh No.

Pat: Well you must of encypted the data?

Phone: Eh... Not as Such.

Pat: You must of password protected them?

Phone: Oh Yes.. We wrote it on the CD.

Pat: Oh. You're Screwed

Pat puts done phone, turns to Jess

Pat: Well Jess, his name might be Pratt but to me he sounds like a complete useless W....

Screen goes blank, cut to old Episode of Bob the Builder.

Judging from the lack of crown on his vehicles.

Rupert in a hoodie? Sadly my friend you are behind the times- it has already happened.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/entertainment_enl_1161614425/html/1.stm

Bloody ridiculous. There's no way 'elf & safety would let him deliver any of the stuff he's assigned on his 'missions'. Jess is a serious liability who could easily injure a child on the rounds. PostMAN is a gender-spiked word indicating a phallocentric view of postal delivery which denigrates the contribution made by the service's wimmin workers. Worst of all, Pat and all his colleagues are all white.

In short, I am disgusted that such a bigoted anachronism of a programme ever got commissioned. It has less relevance to the modern world than Love Thy Neighbour.

"If he ever gets chased by a savage Pitbull he can simply throw the cat at it and make a quick escape while Jess is ripped to shreds".

It was a very nice keyboard, really it was.

I thought PP was set in a (fictional) village in Wales??

Of to Wikipedia (gasp!) to check...

post apocalypse 'Pigeon Street', perhaps the pigeons could be sentient, and have robotic pigeon minions to carry out their will, a bit like battle star galactica, but with pigeons, you know?

Perhaps they could use 'Bertha' as their kind of like robot minion pigeon production unit or something.

So this is starting just in time for Christmas lists?

Quote: "I thought PP was set in a (fictional) village in Wales??"

Nah, you are thinking of Fireman Sam.

" ... he now has a number of hi-tech gadgets ... a gyrocopter, a motorbike with sidecar (for Jess, obviously), a satnav and a mobile phone –"

Did someone "merchandising" ?

Um, would this be close enough? It's been out awhile and it's even interactive! (Joy) http://www.tomscott.com/flash/pigeonstreet/

Right, right, I'm leaving, quit pushing!

Fireman Sam was in Wales, Postman Pat was clearly up north somewhere.

Does Pat also deliver those brown-paper packages from busty-vixens-online.com?

Anyone else click on this link expecting to see playmobil?

No? Just me then...

Where he Strikes, It will be a bit boring; 20 minutes of him sitting at a picket line drinking tea and smoking fags, but Dammit it will be realistic.

In the next series he will just be called "Pat" - Because he will be unemployed.

Buy the book or maybe an old cassette.

Does anyone else remember Johnny Morris' reading of Thomas the Tank Engine? Absolutely amazing!

I smell the merchandising and sponsorship too. "Mummy, mummy (or is that "Mommy, mommy"?) I want a postman pat mobile phone/gps/robot cat!"

I can see why they up the pace of the programmes, obviously the children aren't consuming fast enough! Get 'em going! Drink some caffeine or something!

Pirates! They take a good thing and make it take a long walk off a short plank.