Nolly promises to lift the real reasons why actress Noele Gordon (Helena Bonham-Carter) was sacked from Crossroads in the early 1980s.
The modern audience shrugs and wonders what is Crossroads and who is Noele Gordon?
Known as Nolly to her friends, who drove around in a willow gold Rolls Royce. (That fact would not be gleaned from this drama, I remember it from a newspaper interview that Noele Gordon gave.) She was a formidable television personality in the midlands region in the 1960s.
She was to star in the soap opera Crossroads which although popular, became a byword for being amateurish. The recreation of Crossroads in this drama was more Acorn Antiques.
Written by Russell T Davies, who had a big critical hit in 2021 with his Channel 4 drama, It's A Sin. I was left underwhelmed by the first episode. It was too all over the place.
It seemed uncertain as to what it wanted to be. ATV, the makers of Crossroads were going to lose their ITV franchise. The soap had its episode count reduced.
Noele Gordon was getting and looking older. New television executives wanted to pump new blood. To them Nolly was a primadonna. Too much trouble.