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ITV Encore: Interviews
YOU might have guessed by now that I’m a big fan of TV drama. So I was delighted to be asked to write the interviews for the launch of ITV Encore. A new top quality drama channel launching on Sky...
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Common: Q&A
TWO sons. Two mothers. “I thought they were going for a pizza…” If you have plans for Sunday night, cancel them now. Common (BBC1, 9pm Sunday) is yet another classic drama by writer Jimmy McGovern....
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Downton Abbey Series 5 Launch: Q&A
THE opening titles and theme music remain reassuringly unchanged. Unlike the world around Downton Abbey. It’s 1924 with a Labour government in Britain for the first time in history. Lord Granthan...
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Chasing Shadows: Interviews
“IT’S chilling how many people go missing every year.” Reece Shearsmith talking about his role as DS Sean Stone in new ITV drama Chasing Shadows. The four-part series is based around a Missing Persons...
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Cilla: Interviews
STEP inside love… We’ll get to my ITV interviews for their new three-part 1960s’ drama a little further down. But first: I was just a little lad when I first saw Cilla. My mum and dad and I were on an...
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Downton Abbey: 5.2
“I’LL be dandy…” It’s farewell to footman Jimmy (Ed Speleers) in this Sunday’s second episode of Downton Abbey series five (ITV, 9pm). And hello to Richard E. Grant as art expert Simon Bricker. I’ve...
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Grantchester: Interviews
“IT’S very important that Sidney has seen death. That he knows death. “I remember my father said to me once: ‘I don’t suppose you’ve buried many of your friends?’ “Which is a very shocking sentence.”...
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The Great Fire: Interviews
“IT is an incredible undertaking to take on something as epic as this.” The Great Fire executive producer Douglas Rae talking to me on location in Greenwich. Filming scenes that day in the Painted...
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The Fall 2: Q&A
“DON’T wake mummy…” The chilling, disturbing and fascinating series two of The Fall is due to begin on BBC2 next month (November). As many fans of the drama will know, the premiere screening – hosted...
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Moving On 6
Graeme Hawley as Ken and Lisa Riley as Moira. “WE always hear, ‘Golden age of British drama.’ “It’s not. It’s a golden age of British acting talent. “We have never been so blessed in this country. It...
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Esio Trot: Q&A
“WHAT’S the point of getting older if you can’t break the rules?” I have been lucky enough to experience many magical moments in my career. Discussing Tootsie over a Soho lunch with Dustin Hoffman in...
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That Day We Sang: Q&A
Enid and Tubby (Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball) “IT’S letting your dreams literally come true. Which is rather beautiful. “Ordinary people being extraordinary.” Imelda Staunton talking about the...
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Foyle’s War 2015: Interviews
“I’M a huge Foyle’s War fan. “I’ve seen every episode and have given dozens of box sets of it away at Christmas to various relatives and friends. “Now they’re all just dying to see the new series...
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The Casual Vacancy: BAFTA Q&A
“OVER my dead body, Andrew…” Rory Kinnear as Barry Fairbrother in BBC1’s new three-part adaptation of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy. Jo Rowling’s first novel for an adult audience, published in...
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Robson Green: More Tales From Northumberland
August 2014 and I’m sitting on a London sofa with Robson Green. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve interviewed him. We seem to have been meeting up for decades to discuss his various TV...
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Ant’s Valentine’s Night Surprise
ITV screen grab I’VE been a regular customer of this local chippie for 35 years. So Ant McPartlin’s Chiswick story on last night’s (Saturday Feb 14) The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV was of particular...
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Poldark: BFI Q&A
“I hope I’m not intruding…” Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall – and our television screens – in a new BBC1 (and PBS) adaptation of Winston Graham’s novels. Some, like me, will be old enough to remember...
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Arthur & George: Martin Clunes
Arthur (Martin Clunes) and George (Arsher Ali). “SUCCESS is a terrible mistress.” Martin Clunes is about to star on screen as Sherlock novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. With Arthur & George starting...
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Ordinary Lies
“THAT’S happening all round the country to 41-year-olds who look like me. “But nobody gets to see that on the telly.” Sally Lindsay is talking about her main storyline in new BBC1 six-part drama...
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Code of a Killer: Interviews
“IT is by any measure an extraordinary drama.” Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys talking to me about Code of a Killer, a heartbreaking, powerful and brilliant TV production written by Michael Crompton. Revealing...
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