News about Steve Edge

The Madame Blanc Mysteries is just months away from returning to TV screens, it was revealed on Thursday, after a string of rave reviews.  The future of the beloved crime drama was revealed this week with show bosses confirming fans will not only get a Christmas special but also a fourth series.  Series creator Sally Lindsay will be back as antiques dealer turned private detective Jean White, with Steve Edge starring as her side kick, Dom Hayes. 

The Parramatta Eels have announced that James Hardie, which sponsored the club during its glory years in the 1980s (pictured right), will return to the front of its team jerseys next season (pictured left). While many of the side's supporters hailed the nostalgic move for reminding them of better times for the club, the company's return to prominence is bringing back memories of a very different sort for some outraged Australians.

Sir William Connolly, an 80-year-old man who retired five years ago, is a busy fellow. In the last few months, he has written another book of memoirs, Rambling Man, and even suggested returning to stand-up comedy. Billy Connolly Does - He's back, with his freewheeling sequence of reminisces and musings. . The narrator of a fictional story is a boy from North of England. In a chat with his friend, film-maker Mike Reilly, they achieve gold. The idea is simple: point a camera at the maestro of mischief, ask a trick question, and wait for verbal pyrotechnics. An hour of this leads to the belief that the Big Yin has said something silly and scabrous about every subject under the sun this week, this week, all with a patriotic theme. Here he is dressed in traditional Scottish clothing: the kilt was a joke when I grew up.' You saw a guy in a kilt, you shouted, "Kilty-kilty-cold-bum!"Get married in a kilt? In a bloody parachute, might as well get married.'

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Just for a moment, imagine yourself as a nefarious luvvie courted by long-running cosy crime serials promising you a cameo in the sun. Where will you choose for a murder mystery that's all-inclusive - paycheck, travel expenses, cocktails and a splash of Ambre Solaire thrown in? Death In Paradise is filmed in Guadeloupe, Haiti. Emilia Fox landed herself a whole series named Signore Volpe in the Italian countryside. Sir Tony Robinson, who played Baldrick in Blackadder, has boosted his bit part in The Madame Blanc Mysteries (Ch5), shot on the Maltese island of Gozo, by wangling a place on the regular cast. He nipped into the kitchen of the local wine bar and became the restaurant's permanent fixture by the end of the episode, returning to the show as the jailbird uncle of amiable taxi driver Dom (Steve Edge). Tone, you did a good job.

On Monday, viewers slammed Channel 5's Maxine, despite adamantly claiming that the show was attempting to make a victim of Maxine Carr. The woman engaged to Ian Huntley, who was suspected of the Soham murders in 2002, was the subject of the series. Taking to Twitter on viewer declared: 'Maxine was never a victim' while another asked 'Why did Channel 5 make this?'