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Poirot - The Third Girl

Poirot - The Third GirlLucy's 2008 episode of Poirot - The Third Girl is being repeated on ITV1 and ITV1HD at 9pm on Monday 29th August 2011.

Lucy plays the character of Sonia Benson in this adaptation of the Agatha Christie crime thriller.

Poirot is visited by a distraught girl, Norma Restarick, who fears she may have killed someone but runs away, telling him that he's too old rather than explaining further. By coincidence, Poirot's friend Ariadne Oliver lives in the same apartment block as Norma and her two roommates and recently went to their party, where Norma was distressed when she was offered ice cream. Norma's ex-nanny, Miss Lavinia Seagram, an alcoholic, also lived in the block but was recently found dead, with the verdict being suicide. Ariadne is unconvinced and searches the nanny's apartment, finding a clue which she puts in her handbag. Soon afterward she is attacked and the bag and its contents are stolen. Poirot visits the Restarick family home in the country, owned by Norma's great-uncle, Sir Roderick, an elderly and half-blind man who is dependent upon Sonia, his young personal assistant (who may well be a gold-digger)...

The episode first aired on UK TV on 28 September 2008 on ITV1.

Principal Cast:

  • David Suchet ... Hercule Poirot
  • David Yelland ... George
  • Jemima Rooper ... Norma Restarick
  • Zoë Wanamaker ... Ariadne Oliver
  • Clemency Burton-Hill ... Claudia Reece-Holland
  • Matilda Sturridge ... Frances Cary
  • Tom Mison ... David Baker
  • John Warnaby ... Inspector Nelson
  • Caroline O'Neill ... Nanny Lavinia Seagram
  • James Wilby ... Andrew Restarick
  • Peter Bowles ... Sir Roderick Horsfield
  • Lucy Liemann ... Sonia
  • Tim Stern ... Alf Renny
  • Simon Hill ... Bus Ticket Inspector
  • Tessa Bell-Briggs ... Daphne the Waitress
  • Ysobel Gonzalez ... Nurse
  • Sean Kingsley ... Policeman
  • Jade Longley ... Young Norma Restarick
  • Juliet Howland ... Mary Restarick
  • Haydn Gwynne ... Miss Battersby

The History of the World Backwards

Robert Newman's "The History of the World Backwards "was a six part show shown on BBC4 in 2007.  It co-starred Lucy (and other actors) in several parts and is the story of the World Backwards as seen through the eyes of comedy writer Robert Newman!

Robert Newman's The History of the World Backwards

Poirot - Cards on the Table

PoirotIn the Agatha Christie Poirot murder mystery Cards on the Table, Lucy plays the part of Miss Burgess, secretary to Dr Roberts (played by Alex Jennings).

Hercule Poirot finds himself investigating the murder of his dinner host, Mr. Shaitana, who was stabbed in the heart while his guests played bridge. There are eight guests and Poirot finds himself in the company of three other investigators. The foursome interview each of the other guests in turn but make little headway until Poirot manages to reconstruct the various bridge hands played at the suspects' table. In doing so, he is able to identify one particular action that leads him to identify the killer.

The episode was originally aired on UK Channel ITV1 on 19th March 2006.

Mindflesh - a Body-Horror Movie!

MindfleshMindFlesh, a Body-Horror Movie, in Cronenberg TraditionThursday | August 30th, 2007

The disturbing Cronenberg-style horror-thriller, MindFlesh completes post-production at the end of August. Worldwide rights are available.

Finishing post-production at the end of August is indie horror-thriller, MindFlesh staring Christopher Fairbank (Aliens, Batman, Fifth Element), Peter Bramhill (Human Traffic), Lucy Liemann (Bourne Ultimatum) and introducing sexy French goddess Carole Derrien.

Adapted from the novel “White Light” by William Scheinman, MindFlesh tells the story of a taxi driver, Chris Jackson, whose obsession with a ghostly goddess becomes real. Add cruel extraterrestrials that punish Jackson for pulling the goddess from a parallel dimension and MindFlesh establishes what could be a very successful franchise in the tradition of David Cronenberg.

There are some pretty out-there scenes in MindFlesh that shock not because of their brutality but because of their originality and context.

Filmed on location in South London, UK over four six-day weeks last October, the creative team has worked the past 10 months to complete the digital effects that enhance and compliment prosthetics worn during shooting to successfully blend reality and fantasy. Work on the 5-piece prosthetic alien costume began three months before shooting and includes a pair of 3ft Powerizer stilts to increase the monster’s height. Actress Charlotte Milchard who wears the alien suit, also gets a chance to show her face as a murder victim with severed breasts.

An interesting aspect of the movie is the surprising lack of dialogue with Director Robert Pratten choosing to tell the story with striking images and an innovative music soundtrack from Arban Severin, wife of Siouxie and the Banshees founder member, Steven Severin. Pratten admits that MindFlesh is far more adventurous and edgy than his successful first feature London Voodoo.

Says Pratten, “There are some pretty out-there scenes in MindFlesh that shock not because of their brutality but because of their originality and context.”

He continues, “MindFlesh is about a guy dominated by obsession. Although there’s plenty of blood and boobs and on the surface the film looks like an erotic horror-thriller, there is a serious message lurking in there about pleasure not being the path to happiness.”

A trailer is available at http://www.vimeo.com/285036

Senseless

SenselessThe screenplay for Senseless was written by Hynd, based on the eponymous novel by Stona Fitch. The movie apparently stars Jason Behr, Emma Catherwood, Joe Ferrara (a.k.a. Joe Ferrera), Lucy Liemann, Tam Dean Burn, and Toby Marlow.

'Senseless' unfolds as an affluent business man (Jason Behr) finds himself the unwilling hostage to political extremists who brutally torture him for acts he has no recollection of ever committing.  Audiences of blood-thirsty home viewers fixate on their computer screens as his torment is streamed across the internet and delivers the most graphic and disturbing reality show ever to be broadcast."

"Eliott Gast, an American economist, is abducted in Europe by a shadowy anti-globalisation group. Eliott spends forty days held hostage, each moment broadcast on the internet via dozens of cameras. His captors inform him that his eventual release depends on donations made to their cause by the millions of people watching. His mind racing, Eliott tries to understand why he is there, unearthing sins both small and large. Over the course of his captivity Eliott is deprived of his senses, one by one. His crime, his captors insist, demands justice."

"Elliot Gast was cruising on the road to success, until he became violently overturned by a group of political extremists and brutally tortured for acts he wasn't even aware that he had committed. Now, as his torment is streamed across the net as the most graphic and disturbing reality show yet, Elliott has nothing left but the will to fight back against the evils and try to plead to the masses as they safely watch from the other side of their computer screens. In this intense thriller where desperation and pain become the new currency, we expose a raw view of commercialism, capitalism, and the American Dream according to the new order of radical extremists."

Private Life

  • United Kingdom England, 2006, BetaSP - Color - 16
  • Directed by: Abbe Robinson
  • Cast: Lucy Liemann, Jana Carpenter Toby Sawyer
  • Screenplay: Abbe Robinson
  • Photography: Candida Richardson
  • Editing: Anton Short
  • Set design: Joanne Cook
  • Costume design: Madeleine Millar, Mair Ainsworth
  • Music: Heather Fenoughty
  • Sound: Heather Fenoughty
  • Producer: Maria Pavlou
  • Production: Maria Pavlou

Story description:

Yorkshire 1952. Ruth Ackroyd (Liemann), an unmarried woman in her late twenties leaves the monotony of her work in a Textile mill on a Friday afternoon and secretly takes the train to Manchester where she meets a man on the platform. All is not what it seems.

Nuclear Secrets

Nuclear SecretsThere are currently 27,000 nuclear warheads in existence and most are far more powerful than those used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nine countries possess, or are suspected of possessing, nuclear weapons; dozens more have access to nuclear materials and the technology to turn them into weapons.

Through five spy thriller programmes, Nuclear Secrets charts the true story of the race for nuclear supremacy – from the creation of the A-Bomb to the present-day market in nuclear secrets across the world.

In the Forties, Klaus Fuchs betrayed Britain by passing secrets to the Soviets. By the Sixties, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky had become one of the Soviet Union's greatest traitors. In the Eighties, Mordechai Va'anunu blew the whistle on the Israeli bomb, highlighting the spread of nuclear weapons to the Middle East, and in the 21st century, AQ Khan, "father" of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, was caught selling nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.

The series reveals that, once opened, the Pandora's Box of atomic secrets can never be closed.

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Lucy on TV

  • Sadly, no programmes starring Lucy are scheduled for the near future! :(