Stephen Milligan was a British Conservative politician who died in 1994 and inspired a character for both the BBC and CBS sitcom Ghosts.
was a British Conservative politician and journalist who died in 1994. As a student, he was Oxford Union and the Oxford University Conservative Association and became an editor and correspondent for The Economist magazine, a presenter of the BBC's World Tonight, foreign editor and Washington correspondent at The Sunday Times, and a European correspondent for the BBC.
's"Back To Basics" campaign for the Conservative Party, and in a subsequent by-election, his seat was taken by the Liberal Democrats.sent black bin bags, oranges, and black stockings to journalists to publicise a new season, forcing the BBC to subsequently apologise to Milligan's parents. Twenty-five years on, however, the idea of a Conservative MP dying in such a fashion was the inspiration for Julian in the BBC sitcom, in a show co-written by him. Aiming for a more family-friendly story, Julian, who died in 1993, was simply trouser-less. He died of a heart attack in the middle of cheating on his wife with another politician. The character has reflected the parody of Conservative MPs previously epitomised byas greedy, cynical, opportunist psychopaths.
Eventually, in the show, Julian discovers that all he is remembered for by the public is the manner of his death. But does discover he has a daughter who has entered politics – though, to his disdain, she is standing for the Green Party.The US version of the show also created an entirely bottomless telekinetic character, choosing a stockbroker rather than a politician, with similar personality traits.
The BBC version of Julian has, however, remained as cynically manipulating and self-serving as ever – though with the fifth season upon us, is there a chance that Julian may change his ways and finally get sucked off?on the cards, it seems even odder than the death of a minor British Conservative MP in the early nineties should have led to this international tribute act. I think we can say pretty clearly that it's not what he would have wanted.
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