Downton Abbey returns next month for the period drama’s traditional festive special. Exact plot details are being kept under wraps until Christmas day (and we all know what that meant for poor Matthew a couple of years ago), but here’s what we know so far… The episode will run for a feature-length two hours. … >
ITV has released a new promotional photo for this year’s Downton Abbey Christmas special. Filmed at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, the two-hour episode rejoins the family in the early autumn of 1924 and sees New Tricks star Alun Armstrong join the cast as Stowell, the Sinderbys’ butler. Jane Lapotaire (Blind Justice) also joins as Princess … >
ITV has announced that Sue Johnston is joining the cast of Downton Abbey‘s new series in a guest role. Best known for her roles in Waking the Dead, The Royle Family and Coronation Street, the actress will play Denker, Lady’s Maid to Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham. Other guest stars confirmed for Series 5 include … >
BBC One has announced the commission of Lapland, a new comedy series starring Sue Johnston (The Royle Family).
What was it about?
A novel blend of police procedural and time travel drama, BBC One’s Crime Traveller saw Detective Jeff Slade and police science officer Holly Turner solve crimes and catch the bad guys using Holly’s time machine (a futuristic desk, basically). Written by author and script writer Anthony Horowitz (the Alex Rider books, Foyle’s War), you can pretty much sum up the entire premise of the show as ‘Wibbly-wobbly, Crimey-wimey’.
BBC One’s international Emmy Award-winning cold cases crime drama Waking The Dead returns for a ninth and final series next month.
Actress Sue Johnston has revealed that she “had a sense of it being the end” while filming the last ever episode of BBC One’s cold cases crime drama Waking The Dead, which returns for a ninth and final series next weekend.
BBC One’s cold cases crime drama Waking The Dead returns this month for a ninth and final series. Sue Johnston has played psychologist Grace Foley since the show started in 2000.
Filming has begun on Sugartown, a new BBC One comedy-drama starring Sue Johnston (Waking The Dead) and Miranda Raison (Spooks), featuring “fantastical colourful dance sequences”.