{"id":20536,"date":"2025-09-11T10:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=20536"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:40:25","slug":"sally-phillips-to-lead-bbc-crime-drama-the-hairdresser-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=20536","title":{"rendered":"Sally Phillips to Lead BBC Crime Drama &#8216;The Hairdresser Mysteries&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary <\/em>star Sally Phillips is set to lead a new BBC crime drama, <em>The Hairdresser Mysteries<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCreated and written by Jim Cartwright (<em>The Rise &amp; Fall of Little Voice<\/em>, <em>The Afternoon Play<\/em>), the six-episode show is described as \u201ca nostalgic nod to the \u201970s\u201d where high-end hairdresser Lily Petal (Phillips) opts out of the competitive city scene to buy a small village salon at the top of a cobbled street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cEveryone tells their hairdresser everything and soon she becomes the hub of her new village\u2019s secrets and revelations,\u201d a plot synopsis reads. \u201cUsing her own brand of uncannily developed hairdressing intuition, empathy and understanding, Lily begins to solve the mysteries of the village.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFilming is set to commence this month with further casting announcements coming in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWill Trotter and Oliver Kent, executive producers for Mill Bay Media said: \u201cWe are thrilled to be making <em>The Hairdresser Mysteries <\/em>and working with renowned writer, Jim Cartwright, who has created a joyful world packed with colourful characters. None more so than hairdresser, Lily Petal, and we are delighted to have much-loved actor, Sally Phillips bring her to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNight Train Media-owned Eccho Rights will be handling international sales for the title, adding it to their slate of Western European drama series ahead of MIPCOM this October.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert L. Kloiber, CEO Night Train Media and Eccho Rights said: \u201cWe are delighted to bring <em>The Hairdresser Mysteries <\/em>to the international stage. The unique world that Jim Cartwright has created \u2014 modern but joyfully retro \u2014 and Sally Philips\u2019 irresistible charm, create a fun drama that is both clever and comforting. It is exactly the kind of premium yet accessible series that we are looking to develop, offering buyers a fresh spin on the cosy crime genre that they have been crying out for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTrotter (<em>Father Brown<\/em>, <em>Sister Boniface Mysteries<\/em>) and Kent (<em>Sanditon<\/em>, <em>The Burning Girls<\/em>) act as executive producers for Mill Bay Media, with Kloiber (<em>The Bombing of Pan Am 103<\/em>, <em>Fallen<\/em>) and James Copp (<em>Catch Me A Killer<\/em>, <em>This Time Next Year<\/em>) for Night Train Media. Jim Cartwright, Mark Catley and David Semple serve as writers on the series with Paul Gibson, Jermain Julien and Tracey Larcombe directing. Grainne<br \/>O\u2019Boyle (<em>Doctors<\/em>) will produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary star Sally Phillips is set to lead a new BBC crime drama, The Hairdresser Mysteries. Created and written by Jim Cartwright (The Rise &amp; Fall of Little Voice, The Afternoon Play), the six-episode show is described as \u201ca nostalgic nod to the \u201970s\u201d where high-end hairdresser Lily Petal (Phillips) opts out of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[7479,2173,2222,12631,1660,4822,7467,2758],"class_list":{"0":"post-20536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-drama","11":"tag-hairdresser","12":"tag-lead","13":"tag-mysteries","14":"tag-phillips","15":"tag-sally"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}