New Series! TONIGHT! “The Trouble With Maggie Cole” Sunday, October 18 on PBS @ 8PM

In this six-part series, a small town’s secrets are revealed by gossipy gift shop owner Maggie (Dawn French), who has one too many gin and tonics in the company of a radio reporter.

The Trouble with Maggie Cole is a British comedy-drama 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. 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.

The six-part series takes place in the coastal village of Thurlbury and follows the local busybody Maggie Cole (Dawn French). Maggie refers to herself as a “local historian” and owns a local heritage-gift shop, while her husband Peter is the headmaster of the local primary school.

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.

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