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The best 100 TV shows ever created have been rediscovered (and no surprise)... But does YOUR favorite appear on the list?

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 3, 2023
The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine has reached yet another magnificent milestone - this month we turn 30! We asked you to share our top ten TV shows so we could compile our definitive list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows voted for by you.

Thought Fay Waldon's She-Devil was weird?Wait until you hear the tale of her lighthouse!

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 8, 2023
Belle Tout Lighthouse, located in Eastbourne, Sussex, and Fay Weldon's She Devil film, has a colorful past that rivals none of the dramas in which it has appeared. Fay Weldon, the 'Geldon', has a rich past, and current owner David Shaw, who has operated it as a bed-and-breakfast with his wife Barbara for ten years, has been involved in it's history.' 'We're really proud to be a part of it,' a young girl says.' Well, much has changed since the first rudimentary structure was erected at Beachy Head in 1828, but not the treacherous seas swirling underneath.

Fay Weldon's life, like her novels, was full of drama

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 4, 2023
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Fay Weldon's life, as her books, was full of drama - from being a Soho hostess to three unhappy marriages and even rape. Nonetheless, she refused to condemn men and said she was a true feminist. The mistress of the zinging one-liner wrote in bed, my husband and I met in bed. They had sex as strangers at a party and fell in love the next morning, according to her.

Fay Weldon death: The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil author dies aged 91

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 4, 2023
Fay Weldon, a writer who has written The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil and Praxis, has died at the age of 91. More than 30 books have been published as well as short stories and plays written for television, radio, and stage, as well as ITV's hit show Upstairs, Downstairs. 'It's with great sadness that we learn of Fay Weldon's (CBE), author, essayist, and playwright,' according to a family's statement. "She died peacefully this morning, January 4, 2023." In a note shared on her website, the writer first told her readers that she had been admitted to hospital with a broken bone in her back and then with a stroke. Weldon, who was born in New Zealand in 1931, was taken up in New Zealand and returned to the United Kingdom as a child. She continued to study economics and psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and then received an honorary doctorate from the University in 1990. Weldon served in London and as a reporter before heading to London to work as an advertisement copywriter. In 1967, she moved to concentrate on her writing and published her first book, The Fat Woman's Joke.

The true suspect in Prime Suspect: Sexist cops were unable to defeat DCI Jackie Malton, who suffered with hard-ass DCI Jackie Malton

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 13, 2022
Jackie Malton (left) spoke with Lynda La Plante, who based her Prime Suspect character DCI Jane Tennison (inset) on her. She spoke about her 20 years in the Met police, with 11 of them serving in the Met police. She was branded a 'c***' and was told she wasn't gay, she hadn't met the right one and didn't have a good ******* yet.'

Amanda Redman, 65, slams the 'archaic under-representation' of women over 50 on television

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 12, 2022
On television, Amanda Redman condemned the 'archaic under-representation' of women over 50. As she approaches 50, the actress, 65, said it makes her 'blood boil,' as she sees that chances for women on television begin to decrease as they reach their 50th anniversary.