It’s only a day to go and after the food and the presents the most important thing about Christmas is obviously the television so here at UnrealityTV we’re offering you several previews to guide you through the three biggest TV days of the year kicking off with Christmas Eve.
So this week we continue a good run of TV highlights with a couple of amusing Sky1 shows and some new thrillers from the BBC so let’s get started.
A Touch of Cloth (Sky1, Sun and Mon, 9pm)
Kicking off with a Sky double bill of new crime show A Touch of Cloth starring John Hannah and Suranne Jones. Though A Touch of Cloth isn’t a new crime series but in fact a two-part spoof conceived and co-written by sardonic comic and writer Charlie Brooker who combines all the familiar elements of British cop shows into this pastiche. Hannah stars as DCI Jack Cloth a maverick, alcoholic, widowed detective who has to team up with Jones’ incompetent DC Anne Oldman in order to investigate a series of gruesome murders. As Brooker is a former TV critic, he has watched many of the major British crime shows of the past, including Wire in the Blood and Silent Witness both of which are drawn on here, to put together plenty of plot points that will be instantly recognisable to those who watch these sort of programmes on a regular basis. Jones and Hannah both send themselves up tremendously, and fans of The Naked Gun will love the quick-witted humour that Brooker and his fellow writers employ and after all it’ll be good to cheer yourself up over Bank Holiday weekend as it doesn’t look like the weather will be particularly great. Read more & comment »
The iconic legend that is Stephanie Beacham has joined the cast of hit Sky 1 HD hit supermarket comedy, Trollied, and has promised fans “aisle make you laugh”.
Beacham, who came 5th in the 2010 Celebrity Big Brother, will play the strict new manager for the megastore Valco, working alongside Absolutely Fabulous‘ Jane Horrocks.
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Looking back over the past twelve months I have to say that on the whole TV has been rather good. Even though this is the year that the major channels have given us Outcasts, Candy Cabs, Geordie Shore, Gavin Henson as The Bachelor, Famous and Fearless and Sugarland we have also seen a great mix of documentary, comedy and drama some of which have come from unexpected sources.
We’ve haven’t seen much of Mark Addy since his charcater was killed off during the first season of Game Of Thrones but today, we got our first glimpse of the 47 year old star in his new sitcom Trollied.
You really couldn’t get two roles that are more different. On The Game Of Thrones, the British actor starred as Robert Baratheon, King of the Seven Kingdoms. A fat and miserable ruler, trapped in an unloving marriage.
Jane Horrocks has admitted that her appearance in a string of popular Tesco adverts, made it easy for her to assume the role of a supermarket worker in Sky 1′s new sitcom ‘Trollied’.
The 47 year old admitted that her co-star Jason Watkins was hugely impressed with the purpose built imitation store the cast shot scenes in but Jane – who plays Velco supermarket’s acting deputy manager Julie in the Sky1 HD sitcom – wasn’t fazed.
Sky 1 are preparing to launch their original comic drama Trollied next month and have released the video promo below, to promote the new series.
The show will be set in “Valco”, a fictional LIDL type supermarket on the outskirts of Manchester and is filmed in a purpose-built, fully functional replica store. It features Jane Horrocks as a sales assistant with illusions of grandeur, Mark Addy – from Game Of Thrones – as a lady loving butcher, who considers himself to be Mr Fun and Rita May as Margaret, a mum and grandmother, trying to reclaim some independence by landing a new job.
Jane Horrocks is to star in new supermarket comedy ‘Trollied’.
The former ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ actress will join Lark Rise to Candleford’s Jason Watkins, ‘The Full Monty’ actor Mark Addy and ‘This Is England’ star Chanel Cresswell in the Sky 1 comedy drama, which will document the lives of a number of everyday people working in a local grocery store.
Jane admitted she was initially attracted to the role because it would offer her the “luxury” of playing a part based in a realistic environment, even if it is a character who is universally disliked.
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via press release:
Sky has announced the commission of TROLLIED for Sky 1 HD and due to be broadcast in July 2011.
The supermarket-based comedy which centres on the everyday lives of its staff is directed by Paul Walker (Shameless, Casualty) and has been written by a team of writers lead by Julie Rutterford (Shameless and Life on Mars).
TROLLIED boasts a stellar cast list including Bafta and Golden Globe® nominee Jane Horrocks (The Road to Coronation Street, Absolutely Fabulous), Mark Addy (The Full Monty, Game of Thrones), Jason Watkins (Being Human, Lark Rise to Candleford) and Rita May (Coronation Street, Drop Dead Gorgeous). They are joined by Joel Fry (White Van Man), Nick Blood (Material Girl,Combat Kids), Chanel Cresswell (This is England) and Lorraine Cheshire (Life on Mars, Early Doors, Waterloo Road).
It’s been revealed today that former Absolutely Fabulous actress Jane Horrocks – who is also the voice behind Tesco’s ad campaign – has landed a role in a new Sky1 comedy.
Entitled ‘Trollied’, the show focuses on the lives and loves of supermarket workers. The fictional company featured is ‘Valco’ which is a “budget chain store” according to The Sun. Read more & comment »
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