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Home Fires 2: Interviews
“IT’S a great advert for community and helping each other. “That sense of community and looking out for one another that we’ve very much lost nowadays. “I do think there is a huge longing for that.”...
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Marcella: Interviews
“AUDIENCES don’t like to be treated as if they’re stupid. “Sometimes I think we dumb things down and underestimate the intelligence of an audience. “We’re not stupid. We don’t need it hammered into...
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Brief Encounters: Interviews
“IT was extraordinary. “All the men in the crew went very quiet.” Penelope Wilton talking to me about glorious new ITV drama Brief Encounters. Starting in 1982, the six-part series begins at 9pm next...
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Cold Feet: Interviews
“I aspire to make people laugh out loud and a tear to form in their eye. “I feel we’ve achieved that.” Cold Feet creator and writer Mike Bullen talking to me earlier this year about the return of the...
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Paranoid: Interviews
“YOU start thinking, ‘Is this going to be about small town cops investigating a brutal murder? ‘Or is it going to be something more than that?’ “And it turns out to be something far more than that.”...
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The Level: Interviews
“IT’S not really a world I know much about. “I’m a poncey little actor.” Philip Glenister talking to me about his role in new six-part thriller The Level. Which begins on ITV at 9pm this Friday (Sept...
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Tutankhamun: Interviews
“IT really is an astonishing story. An incredible adventure. Pure and simple. A story of discovery and imagination…” Max Irons talking to me about his role as archeologist Howard Carter in Tutankhamun...
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HIM: Interviews
“IT was one of the most unique television scripts I’d read.” Katherine Kelly talking to me about HIM, a three-part drama starting on ITV at 9pm this Wednesday (Oct 19). The script in question was...
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Dark Angel: Interviews
“SHE is always chasing the dream in her head. “Chasing a fairy tale throughout her whole life.” Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt talking to me about her new screen role as Mary Ann Cotton in Dark...
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In Plain Sight: Interviews
“A lot of people in Scotland know about Peter Manuel. “But I don’t think many people of my age would be aware of the depth of his crimes. “It was really shocking when I started looking into it.” Line...
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The Halcyon: Interviews
“THE Halcyon gripped me straight away. “Setting the story within this high-class hotel and also against the backdrop of the Second World War gives you such a huge scope for drama and for what’s to...
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Unforgotten 2: Interviews
“I was very nervous. “You hope we can serve it as well second time round. “But actually three or four days in it felt really good to be back playing her.” Nicola Walker talking to me about returning...
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Vera 2017: Interview
“THE North East is the best kept secret in the country. It’s absolutely beautiful.” Vera star Brenda Blethyn talking to me ahead of series seven, which begins on ITV at 8pm this Sunday (March 19)....
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Harlots: Interviews
“THERE was something shocking or surprising at every single turn. “One in five women in London were involved in the sex industry at this time.” Jessica Brown Findlay talking to me about new drama...
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Maigret 2017: Interviews
“YOU can come up with a caricature in a relatively short space of time. “But if you want a character, that takes longer. “All characters for me are a voyage of discovery.” Rowan Atkinson talking to me...
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Grantchester 3: Interviews
“IT’S about guilt and conflict. The conflict between love and duty. “It is shocking and it is dark but in a slightly different more personal way.” James Norton talking to me about series three of...
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Little Boy Blue: Interviews
“WE have a duty to honour the spirit and memory of Rhys. “As a society we should never let this happen again. “Hopefully Little Boy Blue will make people stop and think for a little bit. “The only way...
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The Loch: Who Is The Real Monster?
“EVERYBODY has their own shadow. The shadow within. “I find all of that really interesting. Maybe it explains why we all like to read or watch dark stories. “Sometimes people want to look at monsters...
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Fearless: Read Between The Lies
“TRUMP has politicised a generation. “People are very aware of that now. “That actually they don’t trust necessarily the establishment to solve things for them or look to the establishment as heroes,...
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Safe House 2: Interviews
“I still pinch myself sometimes because what I get to do for my life, for my job, is such a privilege. “And there are moments when you rise above yourself and look down and go, ‘I can’t believe I get...
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