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Celebrating Crossroads 2001 – The second series of ITV’s hotel soap from Carlton Television |
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ORIGINAL SERIES MOTEL
LOCATION FOUND ( |
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Last night
the Crossroads Appreciation Society was able to reveal the location of one of
the most iconic images from the original series – the “motel” with the red
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The exact
whereabouts of the location had been lost as much of the production paperwork
went missing from the ATV archive following changes in the structure of ITV.
Many possible locations have been suggested over the years, from “Cherrytrees Motel” in Alcester to “The Longshoot” in The
location was re-discovered by the creator of this website after extensive
research. Members of CAS are said to be shocked that the building still
exists as many people feared it had been demolished since no record could be
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For more
information on the discovery, and to trace the final days of the search you
can visit the Destination Crossroads site HERE |
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CROSSROADS FANS ARE BIG
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Proving once again that us Crossroads fans are a dedicated lot, a recent ebay auction for a Crossroads branded coffee cup and saucer finally ended with the item selling for £46 The same seller also recently sold a prop plate for £21 |
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THE RETURN OF ADAM CHANCE ( |
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Crossroads ex-producer Yvon Grace has revealed more details about the proposed, but sadly never realised return of Adam Chance to Crossroads in the 2003 series. On her facebook group page she answered a question from one poster who asked about the return of the smoothie himself… “Yes its true that we were considering bringing back Adam Chance because in our re-vamped version we wanted only to bring back characters from the 2001 revival that had some sort of sex appeal. I know Adam Chance's sex appeal is a moot point (!) but in our rather heightened re-vamp of the show, Adam Chance would have played Rasputin to Angel's Catherine the Great...(we had in mind a storyline that would take Angel down the obsessed route and Adam into meglamania territory) We would not have brought back Jill as the remit we had from ITV when we took on the revamp of Crossroads, was to do something entirely different with the show and not hark back to original storylines. That is also why we did not want to get involved in filling in any storyline gaps from the previous revival like the (SARAH JANE / LOUISE DIXON) imposter storyline… We attempted to keep the 'old school' viewer happy by creating characters like the dancing master Valentine played by Lionel Blair and at the point of being axed, we had confirmed Liz Smith to play Callista, Angel's mother and had created a wedding-planner character called Evelyn Moon for Rosemary Leech.” She also talks about the preparation time the team had to work on the re-vamp in television drama production, there is never enough development time (pre-production); the pressure for a drama producer is to get the show on air as quickly as possible so it can start earning it's keep! I think I had about 3 months to find my crack script team and start generating storylines, to sign up a stable of good writers who were put to script writing immediately and to cast the key roles.Basically a kick bollock scramble but it is always thus (in ITV land at any rate) FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE VISIT YVON’S FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE HERE |
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CELEBRITY COME DINE WITH ME
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According to DIGITAL SPY the DAILY MAIL has accused that the popular Channel 4 programme “Come Dine With Me” of deceiving viewers during some of their “celebrity” editions after admitting that occasionally contestants have been given rented properties to cook in.
Producers of the cookery show have hired out properties on occasions when stars did not want their real homes shown on TV, the Daily Mail reports. In a recent Christmas special, Crossroads star Sherrie Hewson reportedly hosted a dinner party in a rented property because her real home in the north-west was too far away from the other contestants. |
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“EVE BIRCH” RETURNS TO
EMMERDALE - NOT RAINE DAVISON ( |
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It has been reported on several websites that the character of Eve Birch is to return to Emmerdale shortly. Crossroads actress Raine Davison played the part during 2001 and 2002, returning to the show briefly in 2006 alongside Crossroads 2003 star Anne Charlston. It has been confirmed that the character has been re-cast and is now to be played by ex-“hearsay” singer Suzanne Shaw.
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A post on the
Official Fan Club forum alerted us to a forthcoming reunion of Crossroads
stars at the NEC in Guests scheduled to appear include Jane Rossington and Tony Adams. CLICK HERE for further details. |
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NEWS ROUNDUP – |
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Rebecca Hazlewood (aka Beena Shah) is appearing in BBC1’s daytime series “DOCTORS” this week. Visit the official Doctors page on www.bbc.co.uk/doctors to watch the most recent episodes. Several signed photographs of cast members are currently for sale on ebay, including Colin Wells and Cindy Marshall Day. Actress Sherie Hewson and friends recently picked up a NATIONAL TELEVISION AWARD for ITV’s popular “Loose Women” programme. |
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CAST UPDATES – (LATEST
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Lucy Pargeter (Helen Raven) is currently appearing in Emmerdale. CLICK HERE Sherrie Hewson (Helen Raven) appears regularly on ITV’s Loose Women CLICK HERE Jane Gurnett (Kate Russell) can
currently be seen on stage in Mamma Mia ( Colin Wells (Jake Booth) returned to hotel life in the 4th series of Hotel Babylon CLICK HERE |
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COLIN WELLS
IN “HOTEL BABYLON” ( |
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Fans of hotel bad-boy Jake Booth – aka actor Colin Wells got the chance to see him back in action in hotel-land at the end of July, with an appearance in the fourth series of “Hotel Babylon”. The episode is still available to watch on the BBC i-player. CLICK HERE to watch.
Colin follows “Adam Chance” himself, Tony Adams, who appeared in a spoof episode of HOTEL BABYLON for Children In Need in 2007. A clip of that appearance is available HERE
Incidentally, it has been announced that the producers of Hotel Babylon are auctioning off the contents of the set. More information is available HERE |
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