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‘Nolly’: first look at Helena Bonham Carter in clip from upcoming ITV drama

The first clip has been released from ‘Nolly’, the upcoming 3-part drama starring Helena Bonham Carter.

Written by Russell T. Davies, the series tells the story of Noele Gordon, the soap opera legend who is best-known for ‘Crossroads’. In the clip Noele is announcing to the waiting media that she has been sacked from her belovedĀ ‘Crossroads’.

Noele (or Nolly to her friends) was a legend in her own lifetime. As flame-haired widow Meg Richardson in the long-running soap opera Crossroads, she was one of the most famous people in Britain. Then in 1981, at the height of the showā€™s success and the peak of Nollyā€™s fame, she was axed without ceremony, without warning and with no explanation.

Nolly brings the true Noele Gordon once more into the spotlight. The Queen of the Midlands, a star who could be tough, haughty and imperious, grandly sweeping into rehearsals from her Rolls Royce, but also a hard-working actress who was fiercely loyal and loved by cast and crew alike. The series is a bold exploration of how the establishment turns on women who refuse to play by the rules, the women it cannot understand and the women it fears. And it is a love letter to a legend of television, and to the madcap soap she starred in.

Outrageously fun and wildly entertaining, Nolly is a sharp, affectionate and heart-breaking portrait of a forgotten icon.

‘Nolly’ will launch on ITVX in February next year.

Pip Ellwood-Hughes
Pip Ellwood-Hughes
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