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In what must be a world first,
Finding Alice (ITV) premieres in the same week as a programme called Losing Alice on Apple TV+. What a wind-up. Nobody likes to feel unoriginal. You spend all that time picking the perfectly original name for your child – possibly not Alice – then turn up at nursery to discover another parent has had the same idea.
Except it wasn’t an original title in the first place. IMDb tells us there was a bad 2018 indie of the same name. Before that there was
Still Alice, A Town Called Alice, Alice in Wonderland etc etc.
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We’ve been here before. Mum is a scatty mess, rarely without a coffee mug brimming with wine in her hand, clueless about money and unable to concentrate on one thing for more than a few seconds. Her teenage daughter is the sane, sensible one.
And then there’s fire-breathing Joanna Lumley, who will say anything to anyone because she simply doesn’t give two hoots.
Finding Alice (ITV) is Ab Fab, converted from a sitcom into a darkly witty thriller. There’s champagne, darling, and endless rows in the kitchen, and a queue of brilliant supporting stars.
Nobody smokes, because it isn’t 1993 any more, but everything else is perfectly in place.
By Echo Reporter
Keeley Hawes as Alice, Sharon Rooney as Nicola, Joanna Lumley as Sarah, Nigel Havers as Roger, Isabella Pappas as Charlotte, Rhashan Stone as Nathan, Kenneth Cranham as Gerry, Gemma Jones as Minnie and Dominique Moore as Yasmina Picture: ITV/Red Productio Grief can be a complicated journey - as the new ITV series, Finding Alice, so brilliantly explores. The eponymous character - Alice Dillon - is played by London-born Keeley Hawes, one of the UK’s most-loved and sought-after actresses (this month also sees her star in Channel 4 drama, It’s A Sin). The 44-year-old star, who has her own production company, Buddy Club Productions, was also involved in the development of the six-part series.
Grief can be a complicated journey - as the new ITV series, Finding Alice, so brilliantly explores. The eponymous character - Alice Dillon - is played by London-born Keeley Hawes, one of the UK s most-loved and sought-after actresses (this month also sees her star in Channel 4 drama, It s A Sin). The 44-year-old star, who has her own production company, Buddy Club Productions, was also involved in the development of the six-part series. She had previously worked with Roger Goldby (Finding Alice director, co-writer and executive producer) and Simon Nye (co-writer and executive producer) on ITV hit The Durrells. And, speaking at a press event on behalf of Finding Alice, she says they wanted to continue the great dynamic they had together.