Bill Ward back to his bad old ways

I've recently started watching Robin Hood on BBC1 of a Saturday evening, and I have to say I love it. It's the baddies I like, Keith Allen and Richard Armitage, all dark eyeshadow and sadistic menace. This coming Saturday they'll be joined by an old face from Coronation Street - Bill Ward, who played Charlie Stubbs. He's playing a character called Rufus who is described as "ruthless," and his activities include kidnapping another ex-Corrie star, Joanne Froggatt, who plays the lovely Kate.