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ITV1 Network July
Sarah Smart is turning herself
into a major player these days with her dazzling turn in Funland
and now the lead role in ITV1 new (thankfully non crime or medico
related) comedy drama series Jane Hall. Written by Sally Wainwright (who
was behind At Home With The Braithwaites) who actually spent 18 months
as a London bus driver.
Jane Hall is a cute and decidely
quirky show, Smart plays the eponymous Hall who leaves here middle class
Huddersfield home to move to London and on a sudden impulse tries out
for a job as a bus driver, much to her surprise she is successful and is
soon thrown in at the deep end finding her new colleagues more than a
handful - this is where the series real strength lies, the bus depot
gang are a varied bunch, Mandy (Gillian Taylforth) who likes to play
around even though her husband Dave (Robert Glenister) also works at the
depot, theres also cheeky Steve (Noel Clarke of Dr Who) and the
decidedly creepy Barry (Ian Reddington) who has it in for Jane. Jane's
housemates also get a fair bit of the action with Jane having the hots
for the flighty Richard and also stirring up emotions in gay Robert
(Stephen 'Green Wing' Mangan).
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