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Post by fenris on Apr 28, 2015 2:01:29 GMT
Christina joins the cast of Suits I used to be an avid watcher of Suits, but I gave up on it half-way through the fourth season (currently still screening in the UK on Dave). The writers and producers had taken the show in a new direction at the end of Season 3, and while I admire them for refusing to rest on their laurels and trying something different, the new approach sadly just didn't work. In theory, having principal character Mike Ross quit the legal firm because he feared exposure and becoming an investment banker potentially seems like a good idea, but in practice it meant the writers coming up with increasingly contrived reasons for him to repeatedly come into contact/conflict with his former employer & mentor Harvey. The show rapidly lost all credibility and I stopped watching. However, since dropping Suits, I've read on-line that the writers have subsequently reversed the new premise and had Mike re-join Harvey's firm - which ironically is even more contrived, and smacks of desperation.
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Post by fenris on Apr 28, 2015 16:21:09 GMT
C.J. Valleroy and Christina Cole have rounded out the cast of TNT drama pilot Lumen. Valleroy will play Charlie Drake, a teenager obsessed with a series of fantasy books. Cole is Jamie, Charlie’s mother. I know Hex was a decade ago, and she was previously cast in a similar role in Silent Witness ('True Love Waits'), but Christina playing the mother of a teenager... Does. Not. Compute.
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Post by orokiah on Jun 21, 2015 15:33:08 GMT
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Post by orokiah on Aug 14, 2015 18:43:08 GMT
Christina is guest-starring in Partners in Crime this Sunday (16/08/15), the first episode of a three-part story, 'N or M?'. It airs on BBC One at 9pm. There's a nice interview with her--and also a still--in the series press pack, which you can download from here: Can you describe the character of Mrs Sprot? Mrs Sprot is recently divorced and has come to Cromer, a new place to live for a new beginning.
What is it like to be immersed in the 1950s period? The 1950s is such a wonderful era with amazing costumes and styles. The way people interacted and behaved with each other back then was completely different to the way people are now, so it was a great period to portray. In addition I felt very lucky to be working with such a talented costume and hair and make-up team as we did on the show. I absolutely loved the '50s hair and make-up. I would love to have the level of skill and design required to achieve my character’s look myself.
Have you had any previous experience with the Agatha Christie genre before joining this cast? I have been in Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage and Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Appointment with Death so I am very familiar with Agatha Christie. On Appointment with Death I had the pleasure of working with David Suchet, Tim Curry, John Hannah and Mark Gatiss. We filmed on location in Morocco, which was a wonderful experience. Both Agatha Christie shows were equally as exciting as the other and having worked on projects also set in the '50s period I felt very much at home in this show.
What was it like to work with this cast? It has been a very exciting experience. I got to work with great actors, headed up by David Walliams and Jessica Raine and Ed Hall is such a brilliant and creative person to be working with. It was actually my first role back after having my first child, and my character is rather raunchy and very self-aware. As a new mum I’m not exactly feeling that way these days so it was a challenge, but a fun challenge.
Do you have a favourite Agatha Christie story and what is different about this show, compared to other Agatha Christie’s? I love them all. I think each Agatha Christie outing is unique and they are all brilliant in their own way. Every time they bring out a new Miss Marple, they always take on a new feeling and style. The actress playing her brings something unique to the role and it changes the character all over again for a new audience. Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime has a completely fresh and different feeling compared to other Agatha Christie’s, I hope it will be seen as a more modern take on a classic.
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Post by fenris on Aug 20, 2015 1:44:32 GMT
Christina is guest-starring in Partners in Crime this Sunday (16/08/15), the first episode of a three-part story, 'N or M?'. Good to know we haven't entireiy lost her to America.
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Post by matsee on Nov 3, 2015 2:07:21 GMT
Christina Cole had played a witch when she was the original lead actor on Hex (2004-05). She would played a witch again in Doctor Who: The Shakespeare Code. A few days ago I saw her in The Blacklist 3.4 The Djinn (No. 43). Djinn means genie another magical being and she played the said djinn but not in the literal sense. Coincidentally a couple of days after seeing her in The Blacklist episode saw her in the beginning of the Partners In Crime story N or M? but not as any kind of magical being.
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Post by fenris on Feb 4, 2016 22:01:45 GMT
Christina Cole has one of the leading roles in The End of Longing, the debut play by former Friends actor Matthew Perry, which is currently at the Playhouse Theatre in London; Matthew Perry’s new play The End Of Longing will open on the London stage with a cast including the previously announced Friends star, Christina Cole, Jennifer Mudge and Lloyd Owen. The bittersweet comedy, which runs at the West End’s Playhouse Theatre from 2 February to 14 May, will star the quartet as four lost souls entering their 40s and searching for meaning. After a raucous night in a downtown LA bar, their lives become irreversibly linked in a way that forces them to confront the darker side of their relationships. The End Of Longing sees Cole return to the London stage after appearances in The Magistrate (National Theatre) and The Lightening Play (Almeida Theatre). The English actress who rose to fame in Sky 1’s Hex has more recently appeared in US dramas The Blacklist, Arrow and Suits.Link to the full article.
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Post by fenris on Feb 25, 2018 12:02:33 GMT
As I've already posted elsewhere on this forum, there's an opportunity to see Christina reunited with Laura Pyper today (25th February 2018), as the BBC's 2009 adaptation of Emma is being screened in it's entirety on the Drama channel, with all four episodes shown back-to-back starting at 12:00.
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Post by fenris on Aug 26, 2018 11:02:41 GMT
Christina joins the cast of Suits Suits has tapped Christina Cole (The Assets, CHAOS) to join the Season 5 cast as Dr. Paula Agard, a Harvard educated psychiatrist specializing in high end corporate consulting who becomes the perfect match for Harvey. Look for the two to play a game of cat and mouse throughout the season, although it’s unclear if Cole’s shrink will become Harvey’s personal therapist. Cole — whose credits also include the BBC America supernatural series Hex — will recur throughout the USA drama’s fifth season. As I've stated earlier in this thread, I stopped watching Suits during the early stages of it's fourth season, but last week while randomly channel-hopping I came across an episode of the show on the recently launched Paramount Channel - which is screening Suits' seventh season - and there was Christina. Not only that, but in the scene I'd stumbled across, her character was clearly shown as being involved in a personal relationship with the show's main protagonist Harvey Spector. As Christina debuted in Suits' fifth season, the fact that she's still there two seasons later, and promoted to playing the romantic interest of the show's lead character, confirms that she & her performance have proved popular with both the producers and the audience. Good for her.
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Post by fenris on Jun 9, 2019 14:16:30 GMT
What A Girl Wants is being shown today (9th June 2019) on ITV2 at 16:50.
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Post by fenris on Aug 25, 2019 13:01:39 GMT
What A Girl Wants is being shown on ITV2 tomorrow (26th August 2019) at 10:20.
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Post by fenris on Aug 14, 2020 19:00:38 GMT
The Doctor Who episode 'The Shakespeare Code', in which Christina plays an alien witch, is being repeated on the Drama channel tomorrow (15/08/20) at 15:00.
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Post by fenris on Aug 31, 2020 15:43:19 GMT
Christina has a supporting role in the mini-series Strike: Lethal White, which is currently being screened Sundays and Mondays on BBC1 at 21:00. I had no idea Christina was in the show, so when I watched the first episode last night (30th August 2020) and her name appeared amongst the opening titles it was a pleasant surprise. Christina has spent the last few years as a regular cast member in the recently-concluded hit American show Suits, so it's good to know that we haven't entirely lost her to the States.
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Post by fenris on Feb 15, 2022 21:19:24 GMT
Christina is apparently adding to her genre credits with a role in Morlocks, an original movie for the SyFy channel based on - surprise surprise - The Time Machine. There's a rare screening of Morlocks (2011) on Freeview tomorrow (16/02/22). It's being broadcast on the Horror channel at 11:00.
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