Apologies for not being around much on TV Today this week, but it’s been an ultra-busy week.
The more observant of you may have noticed that we’ve just doubled the number of blogs here at The Stage. In The Paper gives a sneak preview of what’s in each week’s print edition of our newspaper. This week, for example, there are great interviews with Sarah Parish (appearing with David Tennant in Recovery on Sunday) and Hayley Mills (who has joined the cast of ITV’s Wild at Heart).
More excitingly, we’ve also launched our new podcast. I was lucky enough to have a few minutes with Lesley Garrett, talking about her new album, The Sound of Music and her forthcoming return to the judge’s chair on Comic Relief does Fame Academy.
Listen online over at http://www.thestage.co.uk/podcasts, or subscribe in iTunes and receive future episodes as soon as they’re published. If you use any other podcasting software, you can use the MP3 feed to subscribe.
We’ve also been busy on the broadcasting news front (that’s the royal “we”, of course — Liz has worked her socks off this week):
- Russell Brand will take an acting role in ITV’s new series of In Cold Blood
- Martin Shaw is to play George Gently, a 1960s detective, in a new BBC1 series
- Radio 3’s adaptation of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming will star Pinter himself, alongside ex-EastEnders actor James Alexandrou
- Newsnight presenter Martha Kearney is to take over Radio 4’s The World At One
- Richard Thomas, creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera and BBC2’s new Kombat Opera Presents… series, is planning a ‘psychotic’ ballet
- Derek Waring, star of Z Cars, has died aged 79
- Sarah Parish (see above) is in line for a new BBC1 series about infidelity…
- …as well as starring in an Erin Brockovitch-style legal drama for BBC2.
