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The It’s A Sin writer has always been obsessed with soaps – and now he’s put Helena Bonham Carter in one. Here, he discusses his new drama about Crossroads – the show that sparked his TV dream
TV visionary Russell T. Davies will produce a new three part drama based on the late actress's fall from grace and subsequent death to stomach cancer aged 65, just four years after leaving the ITV show.
Broad appeal: Kenneth More Credit: Alamy In the Fifties, Kenneth More was the most famed and acclaimed film actor in Britain, with a string of major hits to his credit. That decade was a golden era for cinema lovers, and More had broad appeal. He could act tough, gentle or romantic: whatever the script demanded. Yet in the years since his death in 1982, he has become somewhat forgotten. Now, a new book called More, Please! by Nick Pourgourides aims to repatriate one of Britain’s biggest film stars. More first became a household name in 1952, when he appeared at London’s Duchess Theatre in...