Yep, she dyed her hair blonde!
Sky has released first photo of
Gemma Arterton in their TV series adaptation of
Nick Hornby's
FUNNY GIRL about
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Gemma Arterton takes the lead
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Barbara Parker, a young woman from Blackpool, and her finding her comic voice in the world of the 1960s sitcom. It’s the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool – but there’s got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be… someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she’d read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks Barbara finds herself in unfamiliar territory – an audition for a TV comedy show. Barbara’s uncompromising northern wit proves to be
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The new series will air sometime next year over at Sky
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the X factor that the show has been missing. She gets the part and becomes part of a ground breaking new sitcom which will have an impact on British comedy for decades to come.
Clare-Hope Ashitey, Arsher Ali and
Alexa Davies also star.
Britbox has, meanwhile, released first photos of
Lesley Manville who leads their new mini series
MAGPIE MURDERS a small screen adaptation of
Anthony Horowitz’s novel of the same name which also stars
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Lesley Manville takes the lead role in Magpie Murders series
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Mays, Alexandros Logothetis, Claire Rushbrook,
Matthew Beard, Pippa Haywood and
Michael Maloney. Beside BritBox, it will also air next year on
PBSMasterpiece in USA. In the series, a beguiling murder mystery with a
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Timothy McMullan replaces Timothy Spall in the cast
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solution that will both astonish and grip viewers,
Timothy McMullan will star as the clever and complex 1950s detective Atticus Pünd in the fictional novels by best selling mystery writer Alan Conway (
Conleth Hill). The plot of
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Daniel Mays also stars in the new television series
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Magpie Murders revolves around the character Susan Ryeland (Manville), an editor who is given an unfinished Conway manuscript and has little idea it will change her life.
