I mentioned on another thread that I had tried to get in touch with someone from Sky, preferably Elaine Pyke, to ask about a second series of Strike Back, but was blocked at every turn. Finally, I managed to find the only possible way I could make contact on the Sky site - not completely appropriate because it was obviously meant for professional writers who wanted to submit new ideas. And you only got 250 characters to do it in. So I suggested Strike Back 2 and tried to be as complimentary as I could in a few lines.

I finally got this email today:

Dear Jane

Thanks so much for your lovely email.

We love it too!

E Pyke

I was pleased that someone had bothered to reply and it was nice to think that it might even have been at EP's direction, but there is nothing to indicate whether SB is truly on for a second series or not.

The one bad sign is that the heading said: Idea #266 rejected. Ever optimistic, I've decided that this means that MY idea has been rejected because they have already decided to do it anyway or that it's not my exclusive idea to bandy around. You would have thought that if they were definitely not going to make another series they would have said: Yes, we love it too but the show has been cancelled. Hopefully, decisions are still being made.

Anyway, I tried my best to winkle out information.

Something a bit more exciting to report. Above I mentioned that I emailed Elaine Pyke again at the weekend, not knowing if it would get through to her or a minion. Well, she very kindly answered back today and it's obviously from her.

I had apologised for being rude and intrusive and she replied:

Not rude at all. I am busy working away here internally to see if we can go again because I love him too. Watch this space and fingers crossed!

Lovely to hear from a fan. Thank you.

e

What a very nice lady and how decent of her to take time out to answer. I think that's as close as we are going to get but we obviously have a JP/RA fan here and it looks like she's doing her best.

Also, wenn es neue Folgen gibt, dann sollten sie Richard/JP einmal schifahren lassen - es gibt ja nicht nur heiße Einsatzorte, und die Special Forces haben alle eine Schiausbildung, cross country, Touren, alpin abfahren - da kann er dann zeigen, was er kann. Die Muskulatur in der unteren Körperhälfte hat er ja!

Da gibts doch so einen alten James Bond, wo so Viren freigesetzt werden sollen, das spielt glaube ich in der Schweiz. Damals war das George Lazenby. Da gibts eine Verfolgungsjagd iden Berg runter.

Kann man in Südafrika Skifahren?