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Shane Richie has signed up to appear in a new, one-off comedy drama for ITV.
Filming on the "bitter sweet" show, What We Did On Holiday, begins in Malta this month and marks the first role Richie has taken since leaving EastEnders last year.
Richie will play the part of Nick, a loving son and father who takes his ageing and ailing parents Lil (Pauline Collins, Doctor Who) and Jim (Roger Lloyd-Pack, Poirot) on one last holiday to Malta, where his father did his National Service.
Things take an unexpected turn when Jim, in the late stages of Parkinson's Disease, confesses to a wartime romance before he married, a romance that produced an illegitimate son.
Elsewhere, Nick's marriage is under pressure as his wife Laura (Angeline Ball, Doc Martin) is desperate to start a family of their own. Nick however is not quite ready to face up to the responsibility and resorts to increasingly desperate measures to avoid any intimacy with Laura.
"We all feel very lucky to be working with such great material with this extraordinary cast in a wonderful location," said producer Chris Carey. "Malta is a fabulous place to shoot."
The show is due to air at the end of the year.
Filming on the "bitter sweet" show, What We Did On Holiday, begins in Malta this month and marks the first role Richie has taken since leaving EastEnders last year.
Richie will play the part of Nick, a loving son and father who takes his ageing and ailing parents Lil (Pauline Collins, Doctor Who) and Jim (Roger Lloyd-Pack, Poirot) on one last holiday to Malta, where his father did his National Service.
Things take an unexpected turn when Jim, in the late stages of Parkinson's Disease, confesses to a wartime romance before he married, a romance that produced an illegitimate son.
Elsewhere, Nick's marriage is under pressure as his wife Laura (Angeline Ball, Doc Martin) is desperate to start a family of their own. Nick however is not quite ready to face up to the responsibility and resorts to increasingly desperate measures to avoid any intimacy with Laura.
"We all feel very lucky to be working with such great material with this extraordinary cast in a wonderful location," said producer Chris Carey. "Malta is a fabulous place to shoot."
The show is due to air at the end of the year.
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