She said, âIsnât he lovely? Lovely manners. Lend me your arm, Janet. Iâll just pop to the toilet while heâs gone, freshen myself up.â Then, with a girly, winsome smile, âNot that I suppose he cares!â Ninety-three, partially blind with an artificial hip but she still had an eye for the fellas. Her death, a couple of years after that visit, upset me terribly â not just because she meant so much to me but because, such was her spirit, it had simply never occurred to me that she would, or even could, die.
At the back end of the last century Mother of All the Behans was made into a stage play by Peter Sheridan, with Rosaleen Linehan, and then in a later production, Eileen Pollock, playing Kathleen. I saw both performances and they were both excellent, hard to follow. In recent years Iâd looked in the mirror and wondered if it was now time to think about following them, so when I was asked if Iâd do something for our local Wordfest, I re-r
International Productions Continue To Shoot in Malta Despite Pandemic
source: Twitter account - Laura Way
VALLETTA: A spate of international productions have been filming in Malta, despite the COVID-19 pandemic which has left other areas of the island’s economy shuttered. They are expected to inject 7 m EUR into the economy.
The films are shooting across the archipelago, including Malta’s sister island of Gozo. Two productions are serviced by Halo Pictures: the six-part British television series
The Reluctant Madame Blanc, created by and starring Sally Lindsay, and directed by Dermot Boyd, and
The Holiday by Laura Way. Tetrad Productions Ltd is servicing Hallmark’s
International Productions Continue To Shoot in Malta Despite Pandemic filmneweurope.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from filmneweurope.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Stephen Chapman
Channel 5 and Acorn TV have commissioned a 6-part thriller from Sally Lindsay and Sue Vincent.
The Reluctant Madame Blanc (working title) is being co-produced by Liverpool’s Clapperboard and Saffron Cherry Productions in Manchester.
It will be premiered on Acorn TV internationally, before heading to Channel 5 in the UK.
Lindsay said she would be playing lead character, Jean White, an antiques dealer, who runs a successful business in Cheshire, with her husband Rory.
However, things take a dark turn, when she learns that Rory has died on his way home from the South of France. Things get more mysterious when she discovers that all their money has disappeared, their antiques shop has been remortgaged and all assets pawned off.
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