Down
to Earth re-commissioned for fourth series on BBC ONE
Down
to Earth has been re-commissioned for a fourth run, following the
huge success of the current series.
Ian
Kelsey and Angela Griffin will return next winter as Matt and Frankie
Brewer, the out-of-towners getting to grips with the dramas and
difficulties of life in the country.
Jane
Tranter, BBC Controller of Drama Commissioning, says: "Down to Earth
is one of the BBC's most consistently popular programmes, fast becoming
a Sunday evening fixture. Viewers have immediately warmed to Ian
Kelsey and Angela Griffin, their good humour and effortless chemistry.
I look forward to watching the Brewer family story evolve yet further."
In
the current series of Down to Earth, which is still showing on Sunday
evenings at 8.00pm on BBC ONE, Kelsey plays Matt Brewer, a widower
with three children, Becky (Inga Brooksby), Lucy (Charlotte Redpath)
and Sam (Elliot Spencer-Keyse).
Matt
is remarried to Frankie and together the whole family decides to
leave London behind and start a new life of self-sufficiency in
Silverdale.
They
struggle against fate and weather to make Salad Days - their salad
and vegetable business - a success, but earning your living in the
country often has a habit of tripping you up in the pig muck.
The
fourth series will go into production in May.
Notes
to Editors
Pauline
Quirke, Warren Clarke, Angela Griffin and Ian Kelsey star in new
series of Down To Earth for BBC ONE [series three] (27.08.02)
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