The life, laughs and loves of legendary comedian Tommy Cooper
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Leaving on ITV – Review
Screenwriter Tony Marchant explores frustrated lives and lost opportunities
Ill-fated infatuation for Julie (Helen McCrory) and Aaron (Callum Turner)
The uproarious success of Downton Abbey, now firmly established as one of Britain’s great national pastimes, seems to have had the happy effect of persuading ITV1 that it must make more drama. Thus, the autumn of 2012 has been ushered in by new ITV dramas swirling about our ears like tumbling leaves, from The Last Weekend and The Scapegoat to the comeback of Downton itself.
The uproarious success of Downton Abbey, now firmly established as one of Britain’s great national pastimes, seems to have had the happy effect of persuading ITV1 that it must make more drama. Thus, the autumn of 2012 has been ushered in by new ITV dramas swirling about our ears like tumbling leaves, from The Last Weekend and The Scapegoat to the comeback of Downton itself.
Categories Interviews Leaving Personal and Family Life Print Media
Leaving’s Helen McCrory talks toyboy trouble!
Age-gap Drama
Leaving’s Helen McCrory talks toyboy trouble!
Helen McCrory – best known for playing Cherie Blair in The Queen – stars in ITV1’s new age-gap drama Leaving. Here, she talks about forbidden love and being a working mum…
Tell us about Julie, the character you play in Leaving…
“Julie is a 40-something wife and mother who has turned her back on the humdrum reality of her own life by throwing herself into the vicarious fantasy and joy of other people’s marriages.”
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Julie and Aaron
by Gingersnap4Helen | YouTube | August 18, 2012
Plot: Things aren’t going well for 25-year-old Aaron Simmons. He is living with his parents, cannot find a job and his ex-girlfriend is about to marry his brother. Talk about the not-going-well trifecta. Enter Julie Ranmore, a 44-year-old, married mother of two – but the passion in her marriage has long since gone. Julie and Aaron meet on the night of his brother’s wedding when Aaron is a drunk, miserable mess. During their first meeting, each is unaware that the moment is the unlikely start to an unlikely relationship. When Julie gives him a reality check the next morning, Aaron becomes more determined to find a job and leave behind his childhood bedroom. That determination eventually leads to him getting a job at the hotel where Julie works. When they start working together, a bond begins to form. The ensuing events have profound implications for both as they come to terms with finding love in the unlikeliest of places.
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Mothering a Mutant
Helen McCrory as Dr Frankenstein
As ITV1’s Frankenstein breathes new life into a classic story, writer Jed Mercurio and star Helen McCrory tell Serena Davies why it’s a tale for our times
Now that stem cell research is sufficiently advanced that scientists can fabricate heart muscle tissue, the creation of an entire heart, and even an entire creature, no longer sounds like science fiction. Which makes this the perfect time to update the story of Frankenstein: the tale, written in 1818 by a 19-year-old woman novelist, in which a scientist does just that.
Enter Frankenstein, a new feature-length drama written and directed by Jed Mercurio, the former doctor who made his name with the gritty hospital dramas Bodies and Cardiac Arrest.