Celia Imrie News

Victoria Wood's Mid-Life Christmas: too much Mid-Life and not enough Victoria Wood? Photograph: Phil McIntyre/BBC Victoria Wood! She's on TV again! On Christmas Eve! That's the thing when you don't do a Christmas sketch show for nine years a ' people get very excited when they hear there's one in the pipeline .

In the run-up to the Queen of Comedys much anticipated newsketch show , Auntie invites Victoria to give a bigplug for Victoria Wood Seen On TV I mean, invites Victoria to take a lookback at her career.

Alan Howard and Celia Imrie make an appearance in this week's Midsomer Murders. Larissa Dubecki November 20, 2009 Midsomer Murders ABC1, 8.30pm POSSIBLY it's simply my predilection for middle-aged men who've managed to keep possession of the majority of their hair but it must be said: my goodness, that John Nettles is keeping well.

Multi-cultural Burnley is viewed through the travails of a youth drama group, and a short story by Tolstoy gets a long-awaited staging, with a violin sonata at its heart Reviewed by Claudia Pritchard Uniting communities healing wounds, harnessing the energy reclaimed from violence is something the performing arts do well.

KELLY Brooka s buns are too small. This is not our opinion but that of the powers that be who run the London Underground.

An adaptation of Victoria Wood's TV sitcom dinnerladies is heading to the Regent Theatre next week.

Beaten child, cheated wife - "Mick was quite unfaithful" - Jerry Hall is still smiling, and is now back on the stage Here's one for future pub-quiz use: which film and stage role has been played by both Celia Imrie and - boozy murmurs of disbelief - Jerry Hall? The answer is the character Celia in Calendar Girls .

IT IS always difficult to imagine how a successful television show can be transported to the stage, but the newly produced Dinnerladies based on the 90s hit really does live up to the television showa s name.

The thought of Victoria Wood's return to the BBC Christmas schedules is enough to get me excited at the height of summer Victoria Wood at the recording of I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue.