A live-action re-imagining of Captain Scarlet

Why do soap stars believe the hype surrounding them? Why can't they see that viewers love their characters, not the actors behind them? Eh?

The latest victim of their own success is Corrie's Rob James-Collier. After picking up gongs at a few TV award bashes, he's now quitting Corrie for fear of being typecast. Quite how you can become typecast when your character has virtually no character is a bit of a mystery, and while Liam has gelled really well with Steve MacDonald and the other Connors, the real reason why he's so popular is because he looks good with his top off. Rob's not a bad actor at all - in fact he's really quite watchable - but he's not going to be able to carry his own series. When he does pop up on TV again, he'll probably just be playing Liam but in The Bill or Holby City. Which wouldn't be a bad thing, but why leave Corrie to do this? Look at Phil 'Des Barnes' Middlemiss who quit the soap claiming he'd never show up in any other soapy drama, only to find himself stuck in Where the Heart Is.

Mind you, Liam's hardly been given the best storylines so far. His relationship with Maria has been rushed so the writers could produce a love-triangle with the wonderful Carla (seeing as how her husband Paul quit sooner than expected) and the whole lost in the Lake District thing was just dull.

One thing I'd pay to see Rob in, though, is a live-action re-imagining of Captain Scarlet. He's a dead ringer for Captain Black. Please someone commission this now.