Why isnt Holly in the later Dave series??? He is an important part of the crew and I really miss his dead pan delivery. I must admit to being worried that the newer series wouldn't have the spark that made the older series so special, I shouldn't have worried as the last 3 series have become some of my all time faves!!!
Well the story I heard was that when they were in pre-production of Back To Earth Norman was contacted to revise his role as Holly. So he dropped all his plans for weeks in prep. But then never got the call, and was never told ‘Actually we don’t need you’ so he lost out on lots.
Such a shame Norman Lovett's Holly didn't make it into the later series, as his performance was a cornerstone of the show. His deadpan, jaded delivery was perfect and effortlessly hilarious, hinting that even computers get fed up after millions of years alone in deep space. I'm almost certain his character would have evolved to become even better in subsequent series, as the other characters did. I believe Norman decided to leave the show as he lived in Scotland at the time, and considered the commute to the London studio to be not worth his while, which is fair enough really.
