Nicola will have a recurring guest role in the forthcoming Series 3 of Scott & Bailey. Some fans were told about this project when they visited Nicola after they went to a performance of the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Series 3 will be shown sometime in May 2013.
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Dead Good is also a website worth visiting, for fans of the show and any one who likes a good detective story.
We have watched Series 1 and 2 and have been very impressed by the scripts and the performances. Just when you think the writers must have exhausted all possible angles with a police procedural drama, this show comes along which presents fresh points of view. Even if Nicola did not appear in Series 1 or 2, this show is well worth watching.
Update : 19 November 2012
Digital Spy released this bit of information today :
Walker will play a woman who is suspected of brutally murdering her estranged mother
From imediamonkey, we have this description :
Walker (Last Tango in Halifax, Inside Men, Spooks) will play Helen – one of the four estranged adult children of Joe and Eunice Bevan.
Update : 20 November 2012
From the Scott & Bailey Facebook page comes this bit of info :
Nicola Walker (Spooks) will also feature in a chilling new story. The women are called to the home of an elderly couple. The man is bedridden, but his wife is discovered with her head cut off. Nicola Walker plays one of the couple’s four children, who comes under suspicion.
Update : 22 November 2012
Nicola has told some fans that she believes that her character will appear in 3 to 4 episodes of Series 3 and that these episodes may be shown towards the end of the Series.
Update : 3 January 2013
Nicola continues filming her role in this show. Ruth (@theOofOof) has checked in with this piece of information
Just spoke to Scott and Bailey crew in Bury. Nicola filming in Chadderton later today.
Update : 14 January 2013
In this trailer for some of the new dramas coming up on ITV, you can see Nicola for a split second crying her eyes out!
Thanks to Ian Wylie for alerting us to the availability of this clip. 🙂
Update : 19 February 2013 – meeting Nicola on location in Manchester
One of our contributors, Ruth (@theOofOof) has logged a report about meeting Nicola on location in Manchester. You can read her report HERE.
Update : 19 March 2013
iTV just posted this pic on Twitter
This means that for the first week in April, Nicola will be on TV screens in 3 different TV shows on 3 consecutive nights : Tuesday 2/4/2013, episode 6 of Heading Out, Wednesday 3/4/2013, episode 1 of Scott & Bailey and Thursday 4/4/2013, episode 4 of Prisoners Wives!
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when I saw Nicola’s portrayal of Helen in ‘ scott and bailey ‘, I was very moved by her character.Her acting draws you in like only a rare few performers can. I am definitely hooked on the prospect of seeing her on the ‘big ‘ or ‘ small’ screen from now on.
It was last week when I saw the episode of Scott & Baley where Helen Bartlett died. I felt even the next day awfully sad about her life and death, although she never existed. And that was due to Nicola’s superb acting!
This series of Scott and Bailey just ended tonight in the States. I have to say, I had never before heard of Nicola; however, her portrayal of the doomed Helen Bartlett was as good as acting gets. I am so pleased to find out that she has already been recognized. I think if she is not nominated, at least, for this portrayal (in the BAFTAs?) there will be a real injustice committed. She was brilliant, and heartbreaking, in this series. What an amazing performance.
For Australian viewers: Scott & Bailey season 3 will begin on ABC1 on Friday 6 September at 9:30pm, after Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Not the most obvious two shows to put together, I guess start the evening light with all the pretty frocks and period detail, and then move into darker territory.
I have seen series 3 of S & B thanks to the internet but will certainly watch it again, hated Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries though
Just have to say that – i guess – along with many other people I have been aware of Nicola’s work for years. But just recently she suddenly seems to have blossomed as one our most important acting talents. Over the last few weeks we have seen her in an astonishing number of programmes and she is simply brilliant. Her performance in the episode of Scott & Bailey broadcast last night was stunning. And my wife and I thought she was wonderful in the criminally underrated and misunderstood Heading Out.