Actress Penelope Keith appears on the ‘The Honours List’ episode of the British sitcom, ‘To the Manor Born.’
Sometimes it takes drastic circumstances for seemingly diverse people to accept others for who they are, and embrace the true dynamic between them. That’s certainly the case for the distinctly different protagonists of the British sitcom, ‘To the Manor Born,’ which was created and written by by Peter Spence.
The popular television show follows actress Penelope Keith’s character, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, an upper-class woman who, upon the death of her husband, has to move out of her beloved manor house to the estate’s old lodge. The manor is then bought by actor Peter Bowles’ character, Richard DeVere, a millionaire supermarket owner. The duo subsequently has a love-hate relationship throughout the rest of the comedy’s three series run, which first aired on BBC One from 1979 to 1981.
Mr Topsy-Turvy would have felt right at home during 2020! It has been an utterly surreal and baffling leap year when many things were turned on their heads like a president who couldn’t accept that his time in office was up, and a chief political advisor who drove his family from County Durham to Barnard Castle during lockdown just ‘to test his eyesight!’ It was a year when the Pentagon released some eerie videos of strange UFOs, Macaque monkeys ran riot in Lopburi, Thailand, and toilet paper here in the UK suddenly became a valuable commodity. The year when Disney decided to get ‘deep’ and released the film
They have offered you a gold robot. I’ve turned it down.
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Fifty years ago, I began my acting career playing Puck in a student production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Rada. In the years since, I have appeared in BBC productions of David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby, in hit series such as Doctor Who and Birds of a Feather, and not quite made it into the Star Wars franchise. Most recently, I played Oberon in a Globe production of Dream, giving a nice bit of circularity to a career that has had its ups and downs.
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Zoom calls can be very revealing. On last Monday s Ireland AM, Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan appeared from her flat in London to discuss the new Netflix show, Bridgerton. The Galway-born actress had some nicely festive decorations on her mantelpiece, and a trim little Christmas tree tastefully decorated, together with a picture of David Bowie on the wall. The day before, on the same programme, Chris de Burgh had been interviewed against a wall festooned with gold records - his own, presumably - shining more brightly than the sun. Every day must be like Christmas in the De Burgh household with that much bling on constant display.