Up In Town

Up In Town is a six-part series of short (10 minute) monologues, featuring Joanna Lumley as the middle-aged, divorced and lonely Madison Blakelock. The series was produced for television by Baby Cow Productions, and screened on BBC Two. It has subsequently been released on DVD.

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Madison Blakelock is delighted to be living her 'new life', since her executive class husband, who works 'up in town', and she parted company 18 years before. And now she has nothing more to do but sit before her mirror, picking over the bones of her past with an optimism and energy dizzyingly at odds with her reality. As the unrecognised failures of her life mount up, the loss of love, friends, money, purpose and her beloved cat, the cracks in her terrifyingly maintained facade begin to show.

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First aired in 2002, the series is quite similar to Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series of monologues.

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Written, produced and directed by Hugo Blick.

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Joanna Lumley: Joanna Lumley (born May 1, 1946 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India) is a British actress and former model who is arguably best known for her portrayal of the chain smoking, boozing, cocaine-sniffing and other drug-taking sexpot Patsy Stone on the British comedy television show Absolutely Fabulous. She is a...

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Baby Cow Productions: Baby Cow Productions Ltd are a UK comedy television production company established in 1999 by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal. They have since diverged into radio, animation and film....

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