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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 350451" data-attributes="member: 23">Incidentally, the bonus material - two short Gloria Hunniford interviews from the late-Eighties - is welcome, but seems a little odd. Pauline is there to promote Shirley Valentine and there&#039;s no mention of UpDown or T&amp;S.In his interview, John Alderton is about to tour with the Richard Harris&nbsp; play The Maintenance Man along with Gwen Taylor and Susan Penhaligon. He does at least touch briefly touch on UpDown, saying how much fun it was to play a villain. In a further tie-in to Eighties soaps (which were very much in the public consciousness by this point) he says how much he enjoyed killing Joan Collins in Tales Of The Unexpected, going on to mention that Pauline also killed Joan the following week). And,&nbsp; naturally, there&#039;s an update of Pauline who he&#039;s just packed off to a Disney theme park in America as a surprise for the kids.I&#039;m guessing no contemporaneous interviews could be found, and these are certainly better than nothing, even if the questions are typically shallow and banal for a daytime show with a remit to be as inoffensive as possible. And they weren&#039;t entirely uninformative. Who&#039;d have thought that Cher had been the first choice to play Shirley Valentine Stateside before high-ups were convinced to watch Pauline in the role. The idea of Cher delivering Willy Russell dialogue is... intriguing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 350451, member: 23"] Incidentally, the bonus material - two short Gloria Hunniford interviews from the late-Eighties - is welcome, but seems a little odd. Pauline is there to promote [I]Shirley Valentine[/I] and there's no mention of [I]UpDown[/I] or [I]T&S.[/I] In his interview, John Alderton is about to tour with the Richard Harris play [I]The Maintenance Man [/I]along with Gwen Taylor and Susan Penhaligon. He does at least touch briefly touch on [I]UpDown,[/I] saying how much fun it was to play a villain. In a further tie-in to Eighties soaps (which were very much in the public consciousness by this point) he says how much he enjoyed killing Joan Collins in [I]Tales Of The Unexpected[/I], going on to mention that Pauline also killed Joan the following week). And, naturally, there's an update of Pauline who he's just packed off to a Disney theme park in America as a surprise for the kids. I'm guessing no contemporaneous interviews could be found, and these are certainly better than nothing, even if the questions are typically shallow and banal for a daytime show with a remit to be as inoffensive as possible. And they weren't entirely uninformative. Who'd have thought that Cher had been the first choice to play [I]Shirley Valentine[/I] Stateside before high-ups were convinced to watch Pauline in the role. The idea of Cher delivering Willy Russell dialogue is... intriguing. [/QUOTE]

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