Lesley Manville
Detectorists star Toby Jones and Mum star Lesley Manville are among those honoured in the New Year's Honours List.
Manville is made a CBE for services to drama and charity. Her credits also include Phantom Thread and Another Year and she will play Princess Margaret in seasons five and six of Netflix series The Crown.
If you've been watching this second series of Mum you'll know that Cathy (Lesley Manville) and Michael (Peter Mullan) have been getting closer and closer to each other, without very much being said or resolved. So how are things going to end up in the final episode?
What first appealed to you about Mum?
I thought it was great that it was a potential love story between two people in their late 50s. You don’t normally get to tell that story. Cathy and Michael are unglamorous and - not in a detrimental way - ordinary people beginning to find love again. I thought that would be lovely to watch.
Why did the first series strike such a chord with audiences?
Acclaimed BBC comedy Mum, starring Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan, is to get a third series.
The second series of the comedy by Stefan Golaszewski, about a woman rebuilding her life after the death of her husband, is due to transmit early next year. The third six-part series will go into production next summer to be broadcast later that year on BBC Two.
As Bruce Springsteen might have said if he was writing about Mum it’s darkness on the edge of town this week. It’s an October morning, the sun has not risen and Cathy is mooching around, finding various people in various states of distress and undress around her suburban semi.
There was an interesting Facebook exchange about Mum recently. Some were saying that the only ‘real’ character in it was Lesley Manville’s long-suffering widow Cathy. Some were saying that others were also real, but some were cartoonish. What everyone seemed to agree on, however, was that this is a warm, lovely series.
It’s part three and we’ve reached May in this acutely tragi-funny look at a year in the life of widow Cathy (Lesley Manville). The weather is warming up and so is the romantic heat between Cathy and old friend Michael (Peter Mullan), who seems to be spending a lot of time at her house. Well, he’s always there when the cameras are there anyway.
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