Helena Bonham Carter teams with Russell T Davies to play a British soap star who was unceremoniously fired

Variety

In ITV's Nolly, the Oscar-nominated actress will play British TV legend Noele Gordon, who was a mainstay on long-running ITV soap opera Crossroads for 18 years until she was unceremoniously fired in 1983. “What’s extraordinary is that this woman was at the absolute peak of the powers — and this was the biggest show in the country — and she was fired without any kind of explanation, and without any kind of right to respond,” says Nolly producer Nicola Shindler of Gordon, who died two years after her firing in 1985. "In a post-#MeToo world, it’s fantastic to look at the theories and to examine what she (went through) at the time, and the way that she was treated, and how that was acceptable."