Captain Pugwash is a persistent urban legend, repeated by the now defunct UK newspaper the "Sunday Correspondent", that ascribes sexually suggestive names – such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger (meaning "have sex with") the Cabin Boy – to "Captain Pugwash"'s characters, and indicating that the captain's name was a slang Australian term for oral sex. The origin of this myth is likely due to student rag mags from the 1970s. John Ryan successfully sued both the "Sunday Correspondent" and "The Guardian" newspapers in 1991 for printing this legend as fact. In May 2017, a live-action film adaptation was announced, directed
The Wrong Mans (U.S. TV series) serve as a producer. In July 2018, it was announced that the character of Phil from the original series had been changed to "Anna" for the U.S. adaptation and would be played by Jillian Bell. The Wrong Mans (U.S. TV series) The Wrong Mans is an upcoming American Showtime comedy-drama series, co-created by James Corden and Mathew Baynton and written by Corden, Baynton and Ian Maxtone-Graham. It is an adaptation of the original BBC/Hulu series of the same name. The lead roles will be played by Jillian Bell and Ben Schwartz. "The Wrong Mans" follows "two ordinary office workers who