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The stars of Doctor Who, Poldark and Happy Valley have all been mooted as the potential lead in a revival of 1980s detective hit Bergerac, after Jersey's Chief Minister teased that the government may give it a cash boost of nearly £2m.
According to the Daily Mail, David Tennant, Aidan Turner and James Norton are all "in the frame" for John Nettles' former role.
Over the weekend, the newspaper cited anonymous "insiders" for the information.
Giving Government funding to a potential reboot has been a recurring topic of discussion for several years, but new Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham last week confirmed that a decision was soon due to be taken on whether to give the latest reboot attempt a £1.8m cash boost.
The government have since confirmed that the talks are due to take place later this week.
He told the States Assembly that despite "one or two hiccups" and some "false starts", the funding was to be discussed but will ultimately have to be approved by the Council of Ministers.
Pictured: Aidan Turner (seen here in 2018) was framed as the main contender for the role by a number of UK newspapers
Produced by the BBC in association with the Australian Seven Network, Bergerac originally ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991.
Created by Robert Banks Stewart, the series starred John Nettles, OBE, and centred around the titular detective, Jim Bergerac, who starts out as detective sergeant in Le Bureau des Étrangers, a fictional department in the States of Jersey Police dealing with non-Jersey residents, and later becomes a private investigator.
Episodes followed Bergerac as he tackled cases ranging from catching jewel thieves to thwarting smugglers and even solving murders.
At the height of its popularity, it attracted an audience of nearly 15 million viewers.
After the show was featured in an episode of Black Mirror last year, several news sites, such as Entertainment Weekly, had to explain to their readers that Bergerac was, indeed, a real show.
The news site summarised it as being about "a policeman and recovering alcoholic who lives on the photogenic island of Jersey, a self-governing British dependent situated off the coast of France."
Pictured: Plans to reboot the hit 80s show have been around since 2019
Bergerac showcased the local and the first series resulted in an increase in visitors to the island, as people came to see the show’s main filming locations.
Many of those can still be found today, including Jim Bergerac’s flat, which was located just a few doors down from the Somerville Hotel above St Aubin and perhaps most famously, the Old Court House pub in St Aubin itself, which featured as ‘The Royal Barge’.
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