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19 May 2007

Yes, I know. It's been almost a year since the last update. I had meant to do a redesign and add the news that Don't Tell/Beast in the Heart seems to have had a DVD release in some countries. Now Clive has got in touch with a whole load of Lucy-shaped news...

There is an Australian company that will allow you to download Trinity for AU$3.95 for a 24 hour viewing. There must be some rights-management to self-destruct after 24 hours. Its a 1.2Gb download.

According to Digiguide, Lucy was in Holby City in the UK last week. Doesn't show on the BBC site or the IMDB. I stopped watching Holby a few months ago so who knows. She did appear in two episodes back in 2000 so maybe it's a mistake?

The more interesting news is a site that turned up accidently the other day, which is the official site for a new film called Morris: a Life With Bells On. However, she's not listed in the cast, only as the director. Check out www.morrismovie.com.

Theres a lot of pictures of Lucy behind the camera there, and she has assembled an amazing cast.

The news item that pointed me there was portal.bournemouth.ac.uk which indicates that they are filming at Poole on June 1st and need people to volunteer to be extras. If anyone out there gets the job please drop me a line!

Thanks again to Clive.

8 June 2006

Broken News is out on DVD next Monday 12 June. Lucy has one little scene in it.

23 February 2006

I've just had a reply to an email I sent to Gary Boulton-Brown, the director of Lucy's movie Trinity.

He reports that he is in the process of completing effects re-do's and is working on the 5.1 sound remix for the 'directors cut' DVD! Lucy will also be recording a commentary. It is hoped that Trinity will be one of the first Blu-ray/HD-DVD independent releases, as well as having a standard DVD release.

Thanks to Gary for taking the time to let me know the situation. I'll update the page as soon as there is something new to report.

19 January 2006

Has Lucy got a new agents? I found this link:
www.emptagehallett.co.uk/lucy_akhurst.htm

15 November 2005

Lucy finally showed up in episode 3 of Broken News last night. It was a bit of a blink-and-you'll-miss-her part, but it's always nice to see our Lucy!

27 October 2005

Broken News starts on BBC2 next Monday. The current Radio Times has a a photo of the (many) cast members and I have scanned the Lucy part of the photo!

24 October 2005

I just found this on Lucy's agent's site:

Lucy is about to start filming on Broken News, a new comedy programme for the BBC produced by Paul Schlesinger and directed by John Morton, the same team who created ''People Like Us''.

Source: www.macfarlanechard.co.uk

18 July 2005

Clive has found some Lucy pics and I've put then on the overflow page. He also found a listing of her on the radio. The dates have passed but the broadcasts are probably archived on the BBC website.

DOCUMENTARY: Animal Show

Five stories exploring the ways humans relate to animals.
Channel: BBC Radio Four
Date: Wednesday 13th July 2005, 7:45pm-8pm

3: Elephant by Lucy Baldwyn. There's something wrong between Rachel and Dhiraj, but just like the elephant in the room, no-one's talking about Starring: Lucy Akhurst, Shiv Grewal, Emil Marwa

Date: Friday 15th July 2005, 7:45pm-8pm

5: Dog by Katie Hims. Danny has to write a story for school. He decides to about the old man with the dog he sees on the bus. Starring: Daniel Anthony, Ewan Hooper, Lucy Akhurst, Sharlene Whyte

12 May 2005

I've made a nice find on ebay. I got a 1999 issue of the TVTimes featuring a page (yes, a whole page!) on Lucy when she was appearing in Wonderful You. As far as I am concerned the picture is very lovely and you can see a bit of it to the side of each page on this site. For the whole image plus the actual words of the article go to my new "overflow" page at uk.geocities.com/elcheapo3/lucyakhurst.

19 April 2005

Clive has alerted me to a new Lucy project as listed on her agents web site, www.macfarlane-chard.co.uk.

"Its an English/Italian co-production. Filming started in Italy in January and will also be partially shot in the US (Philadelphia).

Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Giovanna Mastrantonio, Lucy Akhurst Beast in the Heart Films UK Ltd Prods:M. Chimez, R. Tozzi,G. Stabilini Dir: Cristina Comencini

This link will give you some details on the book of the movie (directed by the author): http://www.feltrinelli.it/foreign_rights/SchedaLibro?id_volume=5000216."

5 April 2005

I've just found a website dedicated to Lucy's unreleased movie Trinity.

24 February 2005

I found a photo online of Lucy at some charity thing a couple of years ago: www.donfeatures.com

Series 3 of Ultimate Force was on TV a few weeks ago. I'm fairly sure Lucy wasn't in it, but I didn't look too closely.

6 December 2004

Clive has found a nice new picture of Lucy. Click here to admire. It seems 'Every Seven Years' is down for some festivals. The following links have more details on the film: www.greatlakesfilmfest.com and www.filmnetv.com.

4 November 2004

At no extra expense here is a Lucy Akhurst wallpaper in wonderful monocrome!

1 November 2004

I watched the first Lucy episode of Monarch of the Glen last night on BBC1. I am happy to report that Lucy was featured throughout the episode and looked very well. She had the longer blonde hair going on and a high cuteness rating. On my scale anyway. There are another three episodes to follow. It makes up for the rubbish Trial and Retribution.

21 October 2004

This in from Clive: The BBC Press Office has listed Lucy as appearing in the final four episodes of Monarch of the Glen. Her first appearance will be on Sunday 31 October, playing Tony (him from Buffy) Head's P.A. "And her character's name is Lucy, which is nice :-)"

Clive also found an audiobook that it looks like Lucy contributed to: Alan Gibbons - The Edge.

19 October 2004

I had the misfortune of sitting through Trial and Retribution last Monday and Tuesday evenings. What a serious bag of kak and a waste of three hours of my life. Lucy was in the thing for a total of two scenes and no more than five minutes. She had long blonde hair this time and was looking well as always.

At least the old episode of Taggert was daft but watchable.

4 October 2004

Trial and Retribution will be broadcast next Monday and Tuesday (11 & 12 Oct) on ITV from 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm each evening. Lucy's name is still attached to the project on her agent's site so I assume she's in it. Keep your eyes open!

Anyone seen her in Monarch of the Glen yet? As her name was not in the cast list in the Radio Times I've not watched it yet.

27 September 2004

This is posted on Lucy's agent's website: "Lucy has just started filming the first of 4 episodes in the BBC series Monarch of the Glen". I assume they mean the present series. The first two episodes have already been broadcast on BBC1 on Sunday evenings. I will keep an eye out for her in the cast list in future episodes.

I think Trial and Retribution will be on soon.

Last week the Irish station RTE broadcast the Taggart episode Lucy was in. I saw it in the listings by accident and made a (poor) recording. Not much help reporting this as "news" though!

13 September 2004

Gary Boulton-Brown, the director of Trinity, got in touch. He informs me that there has been no official DVD release yet so anything for sale is unauthorised.

7 September 2004

Is Trinity being released on DVD or video? Check this link out...

2 August 2004

Clive found a few photos of Lucy at the premiere of Shaun of the Dead. Here they are, actual size.

31 May 2004

I got the following info and this very nice photo from the website of Lucy's agents "MacFarlane Chard Associates". They can be found here.

Lucy is about to start filming on Lynda La Plante’s Trial and Retribution directed by Paul Unwin for ITV.

Lucy recently screened Every Seven Years, a short film she wrote, co-produced and starred in alongside Ian Harte and Greg Wise which will be shown at festivals this year.

Also forthcoming, Lucy plays the lead female role in Trinity a feature directed by Gary Boulton-Brown recently screened at WORLDFEST Houston, Cinenygma Luxembourg International Film festival and The Philadelphia International Film festival where it was in competition.

27 April 2004

At the weekend I found some Trinity movie info on the a site called www.watchfireworks.com. I followed it up with an email to the address provided and asked about a DVD release. This is the reply I got:

Please be advised that TRINITY is not yet available on DVD/VHS and there is not yet a date set for it's release.

So now we know.

4 April 2004

Notice the new look? I've added a couple of new photos of Lucy that I found on the Ultimate Force Yahoo group. The black and white promo image below is very nice.

play.com is listing a region 2 DVD of Ultimate Force series 2. It's due to be released on 18 October 2004.

"Review The complete second season of the hard-hitting military drama starring Ross Kemp as Sergeant Henno Garvie, the tough and charismatic leader of Red Troop who, with his men, puts his life on the line in the name of his country."

Please note the new address of this page. Look here for any updates in the future.

6 November 2003

Anne-Marie sent me the link to her Yahoo Group dedicated to the Lucy-flavoured Ultimate Force. I've put it on the links page so why not check it out.

7 October 2003

Eroica was indeed on BBC2 at the weekend. Lucy appeared about twenty minutes into it. She (and the rest of the cast) didn't have a lot of lines and instead mostly reacted to the music being played. So lots of looks of pleasure... smiles... oh, slightly sad... no, no, I'm going to cry! ... ah, another smile... more pleasure... joy... etc. Still, it was an unusual and enjoyable film and it's always nice to see our Lucy again. Although I really think she never looked cuter than in Wonderful You.

The BBC website has an Eroica cast page here. I've stolen the lucy photo and blurb...

"Lucy's film appearances include Trinity, Big City Blue, Circus, Land Girls and The Saint. Her TV Appearances include Ultimate Force ll, Manchild, In Deep, Spaced ll, Longitude, Beast, Taggert and Preston Front. Stage appearances include Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, The Winslow Boy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Pride and Prejudice."

26 September 2003

Three months ago Clive let me know about a new Lucy project that was in production called Eroica (click here for more details). Trailers are now on the BBC and off the top of my head it will be broadcast on BBC2 on Saturday 4 October 2003 at 9:15 p.m. I don't know how much Lucy content there will be but I'll set my video anyway. If anyone sees Lucy in the Radio Times next week please let me know!

Dan dropped me a line to say she met Lucy while working on her movie Trinity. Anyone else met her? Grr!

16 September 2003

Once again thanks to Clive for finding new Lucy stuff first. Yesterday she was in the BBC Radio 4 afternoon play. Clive tells me that Radio 4 archives the afternoon play on their website for a week so get visiting quickly!

BBC Radio 4 afternoon play Monday 15 September

"A Fire In The West" By Michael Butt.

Ciera Thomas set herself alight outside the Ministry of Defence, apparently in protest at a recent arms deal. There were no warnings, no final farewells. Three years later those left behind, her father, mother, sister, and a former boyfriend, bear witness to a shocking event, as they continue to try to make sense of what happened. With Ken Sharrock, Kate Fitzgerald, Lucy Akhurst, David K S Tse.

Director Toby Swift.

26 June 2003

A few Lucy-shaped items of interest...

I believe Circus is on Channel Five in the UK next Wednesday night, 2 July. Lucy is in it for about a minute. I'll also be watching because Famke Janssen is in it.

I've watched the first two episodes of Ultimate Force. Lucy hasn't been in it too much so far. She turns up, delivers some plot information in a posh accent and then sort of hangs around in the background. And her hair-do is not the best she's had. Meanwhile SAS men fire guns and shout at each other a lot.

This from Clive: It looks like Lucy is going to be starring in a very prestigious role on TV soon in a program is called Eroica Here's some info from the BBC...

A unique drama for BBC TWO by Nick Dear which focuses on the day in June 1804 when Beethoven's Third Symphony Eroica was first played in a private rehearsal at the palace of the composer's patron in Vienna. BBC Classical Music and BBC Drama are collaborating to recreate that day in a film drama which allows viewers to feel the full force and emotion of a work which changed the course of musical history. Eroica explores the story behind the symphony, Beethoven's passion for his work, his unrequited love for an unattainable woman and the reactions and observations of those who are present.

Set against the revolutionary climate of the early 1800s, Beethoven (Ian Hart) - who is suffering from a gradual loss of hearing - confounds his audience by producing a score dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte (which he later retracts), which surpasses the old classical style of his contemporaries and introduces the new concept of a romantic style. Beethoven's patron, Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport), Count Dietrichstein (Tim Piggott-Smith), Sukowaty the copyist (Anton Lesser), the Brunsvik sisters (Claire Skinner and Lucy Akhurst) and Hayden (Frank Finlay) are all in the audience to witness the premiere of one of Beethoven's finest and ground-breaking works.

14 June 2003

Many thanks to Trix from the Unofficial Ross Kemp Fansite for this unexpected news. Lucy is appearing in series 2 of SAS drama Ultimate Force, which begins Wednesday June 18 at 9 pm on ITV1 in the UK. She plays a character named Pru Banks, who is an MI5 officer assigned as liasion to Red Troop. Just to prove it here's a photo of Lucy with Ross Kemp.

13 May 2003

More good stuff from Clive. He tells me that Lucy was in the final episode of the first series of BBC comedy Manchild. "She plays one of two women hosts of a country retreat where the men go to hunt and get away from it all. Its later revealed that the women are a lesbian couple. Lucy is a hunting expert."

If you go to Image Gallery 2 you can find Clive's screen captures of Manchild and Beast plus a couple of scans I've done from a Wonderful You publicity photo.

Lucy was also recently in a Friday Play on BBC Radio 4 called Seven Minutes to Midnight.

Finally you can hear Lucy's voice on this site.

9 April 2003

Clive has found some new Lucy material. First of all there are two nice photos of her in the Image Gallery. They appear to be publicity shots for a play. Does anyone have any information?

Also Trinity has resurfaced. It screens today at the Philadelphia Film Festival. Follow the link www.phillyfests.com to go to the preview page. I've stolen the photo: