Southend will take centre stage next week when a new TV series gets broadcast for the first time. An entire episode of Susan Calman’s new series, Grand Week By the Sea, will show her enjoying all that Southend has to offer. Few details of the episode have been announced so far, but a synopsis for the show suggests she’ll be spending plenty of time on the seafront. It reads: “Susan visits seaside resorts around the UK, beginning in Southend-on-Sea in Essex,, home to the world s largest pleasure pier and the famous narrow-gauge railway. “Susan also creates her own ice cream sundae, takes part in a training exercise with a local lifeboat crew, and talks to Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson about why she has been coming to the town since she was a child.”