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Jean Marsh Delays
Upstairs Downstairs Return
Jean Marsh has been forced to pull out of the start of the
next series of the BBC's Upstairs Downstairs after suffering a minor stroke.
The 77-year-old actress reprised her role as Rose Buck in the BBC One remake
of the hit show last year and had signed up for further episodes.
In a statement, issued through the BBC, she said: "Unfortunately I won't be
returning to Eaton Place quite as quickly as I had hoped.
"I am looking forward to spending time with Rose again, when I'm match-fit,
and I miss the cast and crew tremendously."
Marsh, who co-created the original drama with fellow actress Dame Eileen
Atkins, is expected to return later in the series, to be screened next year,
although she will not be in the first episode.
The actress appeared in the first run of the drama, between 1971 and 1975,
which followed the lives of the well-heeled Bellamys of Belgravia and their
servants below stairs.
She has said of returning to the role: "I said yes, partly because it was
the BBC, because it's so chic, and partly because of timing... Enough time
has gone by that it won't offend people to recreate it. People aren't
necessarily going to say 'How could you do that, Jean?'"
October
03
2011 - waveguide.co.uk
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International
Emmy Awards
Channel 4's Mo Mowlam drama has earned a pair of
International Emmy nods - for best TV movie/mini-series and best actress,
for Julie Walters.
Other British nominees include Christopher Eccleston, in line
for best actor for Jimmy McGovern's Accused, and Sherlock, for best drama.
Winners will be announced in a New York ceremony on November 21.
Mo details the politician's battle with cancer as she fought for peace in
Northern Ireland. She died in 2005, aged 55.
Walters has said she nearly pulled out of making the film because she was
afraid Mowlam "doesn't look anything like me".
"She was a big woman, she's got a big open face, so I was very scared. But
arrogantly, when I read the script, I just said, 'yes'," Walters added.
In Accused, McGovern's series of standalone dramas exploring the stories of
characters who end up in court, Eccleston played a plumber who found £20,000
in the back of a cab.
The BBC's Bafta-winning Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the
eccentric detective and Martin Freeman as sidekick, Dr Watson, also earned
four nominations at this year's Primetime Emmys.
Channel 4's Facejacker, starring Kayvan Novak as a series of characters who
dupe members of the public, is up for best comedy.
Documentary The World's Strictest Parents, broadcast on BBC Three, is
nominated in the non-scripted entertainment category while BBC Two opera
show Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne is up for best arts programme.
The International Emmys celebrate TV production outside the US.
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03
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