Pauline Collins News

The Sky Arts channel will bring back live drama to television this summer with six newly commissioned plays by authors including Kate Mosse.

I applaud the TV channel's season of six short dramas a ' to be broadcast live a ' but why have they commissioned writers better known as novelists, poets and comic pundits? The Sky Arts series harks back to the days of live plays on TV.

Sky Arts Theatre Live! series is first of its kind since end of Play for Today 25 years ago, claims network Sky Arts is to screen six newly commissioned theatre plays live to air for what is believed to be the first time on British television in a quarter of a century.

Most people know who Bridget Jones is, but Shirley Valentine? She's something of a mystery to many of those under 30, but to those in the know, she's the witty Liverpudlian housewife who rediscovered herself and followed her dreams.

THE cast of classic film Shirley Valentine are interviewed for Movie Connections on BBC1 tonight.

Actress Pauline Collins, who starred as long-suffering Liverpudlian housewife Shirley Valentine, claims that her infamous naked swimming scene with co-star Tom Conti scarred a member of the film crew for life.

"I've tried, but I just can't bring myself to hate people. The worse they behave, the sorrier I feel for them." - Margaret Drummond Review By: Justin Stephen Published: March 04, 2001 Stars: Glenn Close , ...