The Trouble with Maggie Cole

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The Trouble with Maggie Cole
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Genre Comedy drama
Written byMark Brotherhood
Directed byBen Gregor
Theme music composer Jonathan Whitehead
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producersSophie Clarke-Jervoise
Dawn French
Mark Brotherhood
Saskia Schuster
ProducersJoanna Hanley
Angela Sinden
EditorsJono Griffith
Jonathan Lucas
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Network ITV
Release4 March (2020-03-04) –
8 April 2020 (2020-04-08)

The Trouble with Maggie Cole is a British comedy-drama [1] [2] [3] television series directed by Ben Gregor, and written by Mark Brotherhood. The show's first episode premiered on British television network ITV on 4 March 2020. [4] It stars Dawn French in the role of Maggie Cole as well as Mark Heap, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Vicki Pepperdine, Patrick Robinson, Emily Reid and Gwyneth Keyworth.

Contents

Premise

The six-part series takes place in the coastal village of Thurlbury and follows the local busybody Maggie Cole (Dawn French). [5] Maggie refers to herself as the "local historian" and runs the local heritage/gift shop, [6] while her husband Peter is the headmaster of the local primary school. [7]

Self-important Maggie has spilt the beans, drunkenly, on local radio about six village characters with secrets, and is thus racked with guilt for her pointless gossip. But she somehow seems to have hit a seam of truth about at least two or three, and thus the stage is set for confrontations and reckonings. [8]

Production and filming

The show was initially planned to be named Glass Houses while in production in early 2019. [9] [10] Filming for the series took place across South Devon and Cornwall, primarily in the village of Noss Mayo. [11] Other locations where filming took place are Mothecombe, Launceston Castle, Cargreen, Burgh Island, Bigbury-on-Sea beach, Morwellham Quay, Saltash, and a primary school in Ivybridge. [11]

Cast

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date Viewers
(millions)
11"Episode 1"Ben GregorMark Brotherhood4 March 2020 (2020-03-04)N/A
Maggie Cole is flattered when a radio journalist interviews about the history of Thurlbury. In her excitement and with the help of a couple of gin and tonics, she shares gossip about some notable residents in the community... [12]
22"Episode 2"Ben GregorMark Brotherhood11 March 2020 (2020-03-11)N/A
Maggie wants to apologise to everyone she's upset, whilst Peter attempts to hide the interview having gone viral. Jill bonds with fellow members of the "outed-six". [12]
33"Episode 3"Ben GregorMark Brotherhood18 March 2020 (2020-03-18)N/A
Peter Cole is jittery about the press interest from Maggie's interview and the online petition calling for his resignation over the scandal. [12]
44"Episode 4"Ben GregorMark Brotherhood25 March 2020 (2020-03-25)N/A
Peter has to contend with a campaign for his resignation and journalists are calling trying to dig up family skeletons...Fortunately, his ever dependable secretary is watching his back. [12]
55"Episode 5"Ben GregorMark Brotherhood1 April 2020 (2020-04-01)N/A
Maggie is in need of some time alone so she heads to the pub to get a room and amend another 'radiogate' wrong. She learns the real story of landlord Brian, who is far from a 'gangster on-the-run'. [12]
66"Episode 6"Ben GregorMark Brotherhood8 April 2020 (2020-04-08)N/A
It's the day of the village celebrations. Roxanna is still terrified by Alex's alarming behaviour and is desperate to get to him before he confronts the money lenders. [12]

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