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If you only watch one TV special during the festive period, you should make it Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas.
All the TV highlights this Christmas
It's David Tennant's last Doctor Who, Victoria Wood and Julie Walters are sharing a midlife crisis, Wallander reaches for his trusty cagoule a ' and there's a Gruffalo on the loose.
How BBC bosses ruined Christmas for Victoria Wood
Victoria Woods and Julie Walters in 'Victoria Wood's Mid-Life Christmas' Photo: BBC The comedian had been expecting Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas to be shown on BBC One on Christmas Day.
Celebrities and their hairdressers
They hear your secrets and see you at your most vulnerable... Seven famous faces and their hairstylists reveal what goes on beneath the scissors Laura Lovett Julie Walters & Paul Edmonds Since playing a young hairdresser with academic aspirations in Educating Rita in 1983, Julie Walters has become both an international star and a national treasure.
Actress continues 30-year fairytale with Cinderella role
WITH thigh-high boots in fashion, local girl made good Hilary O'Neil might find her footwear from Cinderella lives on after the final curtain call.
Walters on Brummie Walk of Stars
Smethwick-born actress Julie Walters has been awarded a permanent place on Birmingham's Walk of Stars.
Julie Walters will become the first woman to get a star on the Broad Street Walk of Stars today.
Child killer lives in OAP home
A NOTORIOUS child killer is living in an old people's home - among residents unaware of his past.
High hopes after putting disaster show behind her
An adaptation of Victoria Wood's TV sitcom dinnerladies is heading to the Regent Theatre next week.
On Private Passions , Radio 3's answer to Desert Island Discs , the hypnotist and fat-loss expert Paul McKenna was defining his line of work.
In Educating Rita, boozy failed poet and English lecturer Michael Caine manages to keep his mitts off bubbly hairdresser Julie Walters as they embark on their heartwarming journey of self-development Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Hide Last week Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University, made an uncomfortably prurient comment about ...
Talent, Menier Chocolate Factory, London
For a while recently the Menier Chocolate Factory , which offers a theatre and restaurant under the same roof, had two of its productions playing in the West End: Trevor Nunn's staging of Sondheim's A Little Night Music and the Terry Johnson- directed revival of La Cage Aux Folles .
London, Talent Fiona Mountford's rating Add your review Dir: Victoria Wood, Nigel Lilley .
Wood to star in Christmas special
Comedienne Victoria Wood is returning to BBC One for a one-off special at Christmas, it has been announced.
Well, gays of a certain age. The legendary Victoria Wood is back, back, back! with a new Christmas special on BBC One.
Talent, Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness - REVIEW
THERE couldn't be a more appropriate title for a play by a national treasure. For Victoria Wood has Talent in spades.
A couple of years ago I found out how Ernie Wise must have felt. As part of a BFI Southbank season celebrating her work, I interviewed Victoria Wood on stage.
I use comedy as a weapon: Julie Walters on slaying her demons
Comedy roles may have endeared Julie Walters to our hearts, but there are darker impulses behind the laughter.
It has been worth the wait. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth movie in the fantasy franchise based on J.K. Rowlinga s books, is the franchisea s best so far, blending rich drama and easy camaraderie among the actors with the visual spectacle that until now has been the real star of the series.
Cheeky Monkey star in training to play 'Billy Elliot' in West End
CHEEKY Monkey star Charlie Dixon has been selected to take part in training to be a West End star.
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