I'd long since grown bored with the characters in my third novel, Kelly+Victor – until a film set brought them clamouring back for my attention
The Molyneux pub, a big corner boozer in the Kensington/Anfield area of Liverpool, looks like a crime scene. Indeed, the rumour will spread that it has been the scene of a fatal shooting: blackout sheets drape the windows, official-looking people mill on the pavements, cameras and booms are in evidence. This is a not uncommon sight here, except today there is a distinct lack of high-visibility police jerkins. Inside the pub, the air is one of hushed reverence. Someone whispers a greeting in my ear, steers me over python cables and sits me down in front of a monitor. Then they put some earphones on my head. On the screen, a desperate-looking young man leans over a table towards a desperate-looking young woman and...
The Molyneux pub, a big corner boozer in the Kensington/Anfield area of Liverpool, looks like a crime scene. Indeed, the rumour will spread that it has been the scene of a fatal shooting: blackout sheets drape the windows, official-looking people mill on the pavements, cameras and booms are in evidence. This is a not uncommon sight here, except today there is a distinct lack of high-visibility police jerkins. Inside the pub, the air is one of hushed reverence. Someone whispers a greeting in my ear, steers me over python cables and sits me down in front of a monitor. Then they put some earphones on my head. On the screen, a desperate-looking young man leans over a table towards a desperate-looking young woman and...
- 9/22/2011
- by Niall Griffiths
- The Guardian - Film News
Tomorrow, Sky 1 brings Martina Cole’s gritty crime novel The Runaway to the screen, with the first in a six-part drama, which will star a liberal smattering of British talent including Alan Cumming, Joanna Vanderham and volatile relative new-comer Jack O’ Connell. And lucky devil that I am, I’ve got my hands on the first two episodes for an early review.
If you haven’t yet come across any of the pre-release marketing, the official Sky synopsis goes like this:
East London kids Cathy Connor (Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty (O’Connell) dream of a brighter future. But their hopes are shattered when Cathy is sent into care and then compelled to run away and forced to survive on the streets of Soho. Befriended by colourful transvestite Desrae (Cumming), Cathy grows up in the heart of London’s underworld, while Eamonn is drawn into a life of crime and ultimately flees to New York.
If you haven’t yet come across any of the pre-release marketing, the official Sky synopsis goes like this:
East London kids Cathy Connor (Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty (O’Connell) dream of a brighter future. But their hopes are shattered when Cathy is sent into care and then compelled to run away and forced to survive on the streets of Soho. Befriended by colourful transvestite Desrae (Cumming), Cathy grows up in the heart of London’s underworld, while Eamonn is drawn into a life of crime and ultimately flees to New York.
- 3/30/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Screenterrier reported back in March 2010 on the casting of Skins star Jack O'Connell and newcomer Joanna Vanderham in Sky1's adaptation of Martina Cole's best-seller The Runaway.
The 6-part series also stars Alan Cumming as flamboyant transvestite Desrae, Ken Stott (Messiah), and Keith Allen (Robin Hood).
Now, a year later, the drama hits our screens on Thursday 31st March at 9pm on Sky1.
East London kids Cathy Connor (Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty (O'Connell) dream of a brighter future. But their hopes are shattered when Cathy is sent into care and then compelled to run away and forced to survive on the streets of Soho. Befriended by colourful transvestite Desrae (Cumming), Cathy grows up in the heart of London's underworld, while Eamonn is drawn into a life of crime and ultimately flees to New York. As London's red light district sinks into the sleaze of the 70s, and the Ira,...
The 6-part series also stars Alan Cumming as flamboyant transvestite Desrae, Ken Stott (Messiah), and Keith Allen (Robin Hood).
Now, a year later, the drama hits our screens on Thursday 31st March at 9pm on Sky1.
East London kids Cathy Connor (Vanderham) and Eamonn Docherty (O'Connell) dream of a brighter future. But their hopes are shattered when Cathy is sent into care and then compelled to run away and forced to survive on the streets of Soho. Befriended by colourful transvestite Desrae (Cumming), Cathy grows up in the heart of London's underworld, while Eamonn is drawn into a life of crime and ultimately flees to New York. As London's red light district sinks into the sleaze of the 70s, and the Ira,...
- 3/24/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
EastEnders star Samantha Janus has agreed to marry her long-term partner Mark Womack, according to a report. The actress, who plays Ronnie Mitchell in the BBC One soap, has been in a relationship with Womack for ten years. They first met when they worked together on the police drama series Liverpool 1. Janus is now said to be planning to tie the knot with the actor in an intimate spring ceremony. They will be joined by their two children, (more)...
- 1/31/2009
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
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