SOME TV couples are just made for each other.
Like Coronation Street’s Molly Compton and Tyrone Dobbs.
You can just picture them growing old together.
I interviewed Bury actress Vicky Binns ahead of Molly’s screen wedding to Tyrone (Alan Halsall), which will be shown on Monday.
You can read today’s MEN TV feature – with wedding pic gallery – here.
And below are a few extras that missed the final cut:
I asked Vicky why Corrie didn’t bring back her screen dad Diggory (Eric Potts) for Molly’s big day.
The writers have put the former Weatherfield baker in hospital with a burst appendix – so he can’t make the wedding.
Year: 2009
THE con is back on tonight as Hustle returns for a fifth series.
Robert Glenister stars again as Ash Morgan – and I interviewed him yesterday for today’s MEN TV feature.
You can see what he had to say – and view a pic gallery – here.
But I know fans of Robert, as well as Hustle and Spooks, will want to read more.
So here’s some of the content of our chat that could not be squeezed into the hard copy feature:
Episode one of Hustle sees Robert’s character Ash posing as Simon Porter-Jones, a City misogynist with a 19-year-old mistress.
He has coffee and brandy for breakfast as he bids to reel in his mark.
Robert told me: “I just thought that rather than make him an obvious semi-caricature of the obnoxious City bloke, it would be better to try and make him unpleasant as opposed to funny and a bit cartoonish.
A freezing cold morning by the Thames in London.
It’s as if the streets have been themed for the press launch of Dancing On Ice 2009.
Yesterday’s event was held at ITV’s South Bank complex.
We began by watching the 13 skating celebrities appear live on This Morning in a nearby studio.
Then they came to talk to us.
Before the interviews, we were treated to a short showreel of footage which will open this Sunday’s first show, followed by the new opening titles.
“NOBODY knows,” exclaimed Shameless star Tina Malone.
She was telling fellow housemates how shocked family and friends would be to see her in the Celebrity Big Brother House.
At least they had the decency to keep a straight face.
Tina must have missed the leak to the newspapers a full five days before the series started, accurately naming the incoming housemates.
As Verne Troyer remarked inside the house as another new arrival came through the door on Friday night:
“Everybody that I’ve seen in the papers.”
So most of the celebs were well aware of who they were going to share this experience with.
Even if some still couldn’t figure out what that Tommy bloke was called. “I want to say Michael,” ventured Verne.
Or resist the rush to grab a bed in the lugsheree bedroom.
SO now we know the identity of the new Doctor Who.
A flurry of late bets put Matt Smith’s name firmly in the frame to play the 11th Time Lord.
Within the last hour, the BBC confirmed his casting as the youngest ever actor to play the Doctor – and web forums are already in meltdown.
Many appear never to have heard of Northampton-born Matt, 26.
Which means they must have missed him as Danny in BBC2’s cruelly axed Party Animals.
Or as Jim, alongside Billie Piper in The Ruby In The Smoke and The Shadow In The North.
Not to mention the guest role of Ian – one of two cousins caught up in an incident with a taxi driver – in the second series The Street.
OFF to the gym as part of your New Year detox?
Demons star Christian Cooke will not be joining you.
He had to be fit for his role as Luke Rutherford in the new ITV1 drama which starts tomorrow night.
But like many young actors, Christian has to be careful not to bulk up too much.
“I went for a meeting a few weeks ago to play a skinny white kid,” he explained.
“So I guess now I’ve stopped going to the gym because I feel like it’s going to restrict me from getting certain parts.”
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