IT’S no secret that I’m a huge fan of Caroline Aherne’s work.
She knows what the important things in life are.
Including family, laughter and love.
Her latest comedy drama is ITV1’s The Fattest Man In Britain.
Last month I spoke to cast members, including Timothy Spall, and co-author / producer Jeff Pope.
HARRY Potter star Imelda Staunton is back in the delicious return of Cranford this Christmas.
Making a valid point about the cast of veteran actresses when we met last month.
“I don’t think we’d have got the parts if we had been Botoxed,” she said.
THE interview scene running through Margot is a clever dramatic device.
Former Shameless star Anne-Marie Duff is dazzling as magical Margot Fonteyn.
And she was suitably poised when I met up with her for today’s interview here.
Anne-Marie made a number of interesting points which I couldn’t squeeze into the feature.
So allow me to place them here for those who want to read more.
MORRISSEY on a desert island?
You may have just heard him interviewed by Kirsty Young on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.
I was lucky enough to be given a preview copy of the programme.
JANE Horrocks was just 15 when Gracie Fields died.
So despite sharing Lancashire backgrounds, Jane told me that, growing up, she knew very little about the woman who was once the highest paid performer in the world.
We met at the Young Vic Theatre in London, where Jane is currently starring in a revival of the Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun.
“I AM not a number. I am a free man.”
Every day’s a sunny day in The Village.
Last night I was among 400 people invited to an exclusive UK screening of a 21st century version of The Prisoner.
SADLY, Matthew Macfadyen has no plans to release his latest performance as a single.
The former Spooks, Pride and Prejudice, Little Dorrit and Criminal Justice star plays Enid Blyton’s first husband Hugh Pollock in Enid (BBC4, 9pm tomorrow).
At one stage singing along to the Flanagan and Allen song Run Rabbit Run.
But the iTunes store will just have to do without Matthew’s rendition.
ONE of the TV highlights of the year arrives on BBC4 next Monday.
Enid won’t win massive ratings.
But I’d urge you to forget celebs in the jungle or Life as BBC1 knows it.
And treat yourself to this superb 90-minute film.
It stars Helena Bonham Carter as Noddy and Famous Five author Enid Blyton.
IT would be too easy to say ITV is hoping for a smash hit with Collision.
So I won’t go down that road.
But it might be worth the while of UK readers to watch this drama serial unfold over the next five nights.
REGULAR readers of The Life of Wylie blog over on the MEN Movable Type platform may have been wondering where I’ve been for the last fortnight.
The simple answer is – I’ve gone freelance.
There’s a full explanation here and you can check out today’s first small step as a freelance over at The Guardian’s TV&Radio Blog here.
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