Ashley Jensen: The new Miss Marple?
I'm very happy to be back from LA. I totally embraced it and had publicists and stylists but I got the grand old age of 38 and couldn't dress myself!
Ugly Betty and Extras star Ashley Jensen joins us to talk about her role in the one-off christmas crime drama Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death. Move over Miss Marple, there's a new detective in the village!
Based on a book by MC Beaton, Ashley plays the lead character - a PR executive who moves to the country for a quieter life and inadvertantly gets accused of murder by her poisoned quiche.
She says: It's kind of whimsical. Frothy, fun and frolicky, it's a little bit Desperate Housewives, it's almost a bit technicolour in contrast to some of the gloomy TV on at the moment. It's a real case of whodunit."
With 25 books there is scope for more episodes. Ashley continued: "There is a hope. We would have a lot of fun doing it. It would be wonderful."
Ashley is looking forward to Christmas after moving back to the UK following six years in Los Angeles.
She said: "I'm very happy to be back. I totally embraced it and had publicists and stylists but I got the grand old age of 38 and I'd forgotten how to dress myself! It's a bit transient. A lot of people were hoping to be someone else or be somewhere else. Things are too fast these days. I just want to slow down a bit."