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Finding Alice premieres Sunday, January 17 at 9pm on ITV and there is no doubt viewers will be wanting to know more about the Alice and Harry s house where much of the drama is set. The creators and cast of Finding Alice recently spoke to Express.co.uk and other press ahead of the show s release about the making of Finding Alice.
BBC News
By Rebecca Thomas
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image captionKeeley Hawes stars as Alice who finds it hard to know how to behave after her partner s death
It is rare for a fictional TV show or movie to capture real grief effectively and honestly, given the difficulty in striking a balance between over-sentimentality and abject gloom.
But taking on such a challenge was considered worthwhile by the producers of the six-part ITV drama series Finding Alice.
Alice is a young woman left suddenly floundering and trying to find herself after her partner Harry dies from apparently falling down the stairs of their flash dream smart home, which he devotedly built himself.
Gemma Jones in Bridget Jones s Diary
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Euphoria rings in her voice before Gemma Jones breaks off to explain why. “I’m feeling slightly hysterical this morning”, she admits. “I’ve had my first coronavirus inoculation and I’m so relieved. I live near the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead and every time I left the house I felt I was playing Russian roulette. Now I can go to the corner shop without fear. I don’t have to jump out of the way if people jog by, puffing and blowing.”
Jones, a much-loved actor of the unstarry variety, is 78, a fact she finds astonishing. She made her name as Louisa Trotter, the Cockney cook-turned high-class hotelier in the Seventies television hit The Duchess of Duke Street but is best known now as Bridget’s meddling mother in the Bridget Jones films – or as Hogwarts’ hospital matron Poppy Pomfrey in three Harry Potters. For her performance in the unforgettable BBC television film Marvellous,