Brendan Coyle and Lesley Sharp in Sky One’s Starlings (BEST BRITISH TV)

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Downton Abbey’s Brendan Coyle and Scott and Bailey star Lesley Sharp are set to team up in Sky One HD’s new comedy theStarlings. In the new show the duo play a couple who struggle to keep their sanity in a home containing four generations of the Starling family including Terry’s (Coyle) Dad who was booted out of a retirement home and the rambunctious baby Zach.

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Brendan Coyle: Formby actress Lesley Sharp on the return of hit ITV1 series Scott & Bailey (FORMBY TIMES)

Formby actress Lesley Sharp on the return of hit ITV1 series Scott & Bailey
Mar 13 2012 by Our Correspondent, Formby Times

“The thing I’m attracted to is strong writing,” says Lesley, who also credits the acclaimed director Mike Leigh for influencing the way she approaches roles.

Following the new series of Scott & Bailey, Lesley will appear in Sky1 comedy Starlings with Downton Abbey’s Brendan Coyle as part of husband and wife team Terry and Jan. “The character I play in that is delightful. Loving, warm, kind and really loves her husband and kids.

And she’s funny,” says Lesley. It puts paid to her reputation for choosing troubled but defiant women. “I don’t consciously seek tragic figures,” she says before steering the conversation back to Scott & Bailey. “One of the great things about Janet, and the thing I really love about her, is that she’s someone absolutely trying to do her best.

“Like a lot of people, she doesn’t always get it right, but the virtue is in the attempt and I love that. “That’s what women do.”


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