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Leaving on ITV – Review

On September 25, 2012May 16, 2021 By helenistic No Comments

Screenwriter Tony Marchant explores frustrated lives and lost opportunities

by Adam Sweeting | September 25, 2012 | The Arts Desk

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.

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Interviews Leaving Personal and Family Life Print Media

Leaving’s Helen McCrory talks toyboy trouble!

On August 29, 2012May 16, 2021 By helenistic No Comments

Age-gap Drama

by Patrick McLennan | August 29, 2012 | What’s on TV

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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Leaving Trailer Video

VIDEO: Leaving ITV Trailer and Clip

On August 18, 2012May 16, 2021 By Gingersnap4Helen No Comments

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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Frankenstein Interviews Print Media

Mothering a Mutant

On October 20, 2007May 18, 2021 By helenistic No Comments

Helen McCrory as Dr Frankenstein

by Serena Davies | October 20, 2007 | The Telergaph

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.

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Dirty Old Town Video

VIDEO: Dirty Old Town

On February 5, 1995May 18, 2021 By helenistic No Comments

Rik Mayall presents…

by RikMayallScrapbook | You Tube | February 10, 1995

Rik Mayall is a tramp called Raymond who finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after script. First broadcast on ITV on the 5th February 1995. Cast also include, Helen McCrory, Brian McCardie, Frances Barber and Michael Kitchen.

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