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HOPE SPRINGS

UK / BBC1 - Shed Productions - BBC Scotland / 6x60 minute episodes / Broadcast 14 June 2009 - continuing / Sundays @ 8.00pm

Creators: Maureen Chadwick, Liz Lake / Costumes: Trisha Biggar / Production Design: Andy Harris / Music: Nick Green, Tristin Norwell / Producers: Spencer Campbell, Brian Park

Smartly cast comedy crime drama meets the fish out of water genre in Hope Springs when a quartet of female crooks plan to start a new life in Barbados only to end up in the Scottish Highlands. Ellie is the brains behind the outfit and is bankrolling the move with three million quid stolen from her even bigger crook husband but a mix up (and the money literally going up in smoke) sees them having to go into hiding in the idyllic Scottish Highlands seeking refuge at the Hope Springs Hotel.

Filmed partly at the BBC's new Scottish drama studios in Dumbarton but also on location in Wanlockhead (in Dumfries), Hope Springs is a nice return to wonderful scenery of Scotland, a bit harder hitting than say Monarch of the Glen, the girls are crooks after all and by the second episode are busy planning more robberies. Petered out somewhat towards the end of its run, too much of the action centering around the girls plans to try and escape Hope Springs.

cast
ALEX KINGSTON as Ellie Lagden
SIAN REEVES as Hannah Temple
RONNI ANCONA as Ann-Marie Cairncross
CHRISTINE BOTTOMLEY as Shoo Coggan
TONY McGEEVER as Ronan Harries
VINETTE ROBINSON as Josie Porritt
PAUL HIGGINS as Gil Cameron
ANNETTE CROSBIE as Sadie Caincross
ANDY GRAY as Mr Laing
ALEC NEWMAN as Euan Harries
LORRAINE McINTOSH as Ina Harries
RICHARD MADDEN as Dean McKenzie
MARK FROST as Roy Lagden
CLINT DYER as Marius


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