Moving On is a British television series consisting of standalone contemporary dramas first shown on daytime BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

. Although originally broadcast in an early-afternoon slot, less than a month after the initial airing the first series was repeated to an evening audience. The first series of five episodes aired for one week in May 2009, and featured Sheila Hancock

Sheila Hancock

Sheila Cameron Hancock, CBE is an English actress and author.-Early life:Sheila Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a publican. Her sister Billie is seven years older...

, Lesley Sharp

Lesley Sharp

Lesley Sharp is an English stage, film and television actress, particularly well known for her variety of British television roles including Clocking Off, Bob & Rose and afterlife.-Early life:...

, Richard Armitage

Richard Armitage (actor)

Richard Crispin Armitage is an English actor famous for his roles as John Thornton in North and South, Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood, and Lucas North in Spooks...

, Dervla Kirwan

Dervla Kirwan

Dervla Kirwan is an Irish actress famous for roles in British television shows such as Ballykissangel and Goodnight Sweetheart...

 and Ian Hart

Ian Hart

Ian Hart is an English stage, television and film actor.-Early life:Hart, the grandson of Irish immigrants, was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He is one of three siblings and was brought up in a Roman Catholic family...

. The reception was good enough for a second series to be commissioned, planned to comprise ten episodes. The second series was broadcast during a two week period beginning 1 November 2010.

Series 3 has been confirmed for autumn 2011 starring Reece Dinsdale

Reece Dinsdale

Reece Dinsdale is an English actor of stage, screen and television.-Acting career:He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1977 until 1980...

, Christine Bottomley

Christine Bottomley

Christine Bottomley is a British actress.She is best known for her regular roles as Melanie in the BBC comedy series Early Doors and Susie Ward in Heartbeat.-Life and career:...

, Dean Lennox Kelly

Dean Lennox Kelly

Dean Lennox Kelly is an English actor, He is the brother of actor Craig Kelly.Dean is best known for his role as Kev Ball in Channel 4’s Shameless.-Career:...

, Paul Usher

Paul Usher

Paul Usher is an English actor.He was educated at St John Plessington Catholic College, Bebington, and is best known for playing Barry Grant in Brookside, from the first episode until the last , and PC Des Taviner in The Bill from 2001 to 2004.He has also appeared in Liverpool...

 and Eva Pope

Eva Pope

Eva Pope is an English actress. She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.- Career :Her first major role was playing Tanya Pooley in ITV soap-opera Coronation Street from 1993 to 1994...

, but has been cut back to five episodes. Filming started on 14 January 2011 and was aired 14–18 November 2011.

"The Rain Has Stopped"

Cast

• Joe … Dominic Senior
• Liz … Sheila Hancock
  Sheila Hancock
  Sheila Cameron Hancock, CBE is an English actress and author.-Early life:Sheila Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a publican. Her sister Billie is seven years older...
  
  
• Alice … Emma Lowndes
  Emma Lowndes
  Emma Lowndes is an English actress, known for portraying Bella Gregson in Cranford and Mary Rivers in Jane Eyre.-Background:Raised in Irlam, Salford, Lowndes attended Irlam Primary School and Urmston Grammar, where she was Head Girl. She studied English at the University of York before training at...
  
  
• Mike … Paul Fox
  Paul Fox (actor)
  Paul Fox is an English actor, known for portraying Mark Redman in Coronation Street and Dr Jeff Goodwin in The Royal.-Background:Born in Truro, Cornwall, Fox moved to Birkenhead whilst still a baby. He has one older brother, Christian...
  
  
• Julie … Claire Hackett
• Kay … Emma Vaudrey
• John … Danny Seward
  Danny Seward
  Danny Seward is a British television actor who was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, England on 17 May 1976.Danny started his career at the age of 15 at the Oldham Theatre Workshop. However it was not until 1997 at age 21, that he landed his first TV role in the soap Emmerdale for 3 episodes...
  
  
• Lilly … Lauren Leak-Smith
• Damar … Bhasker Patel

Original broadcast: 18 May 2009, BBC One

"Bully"

Cast

• Les … Mark Womack
  Mark Womack (British actor)
  Mark Edward Womack is an English actor, best known for starring in Liverpool 1, Sorted and Willy Russell's Dancin thru' The Dark.Womack was born in Liverpool in 1961, eldest son of Frances and Tom Womack...
  
  
• Colin … Lee Boardman
  Lee Boardman
  Lee Boardman is an English actor and narrator.-Television:He is best known for playing Murray Priestman in Drop Dead Gorgeous as well as the drug dealer Jez Quigley in Coronation Street...
  
  
• Jean … Julia Ford
  Julia Ford
  Julia Ford is a British actress who has appeared in a variety of theatre, film, radio and television productions, including Waking the Dead, Silent Witness, Midsomer Murders and All About George, The Street, Red Riding, Coming Down The Mountain, In A Land of Plenty, Insiders, Island at War...
  
  
• Sonia … Claire Keelan
  Claire Keelan
  Claire Keelan is an English actress, known for portraying Claire Ashcroft in Nathan Barley and Electroclash in No Heroics.-Background:Keelan is a former member of the Royal Court Young People's Theatre...
  
  
• Andrew … Jack Ryan
• Ryan … Luke Roskell
• PC … Sushil Chudasama
• Jan … Paula Francis

Original broadcast: 19 May 2009, BBC One

"Drowning Not Waving"

Cast

• Ellie … Christine Tremarco
  Christine Tremarco
  Christine Tremarco is a British television actress.Educated at St Cecilia's Infant School and then Holly Lodge Girls' College, she was spotted in a school play and invited to a new dance and drama school...
  
  
• John Mulligan … Richard Armitage
  Richard Armitage (actor)
  Richard Crispin Armitage is an English actor famous for his roles as John Thornton in North and South, Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood, and Lucas North in Spooks...
  
  
• Maria … Jo-Anne Knowles
  Jo-Anne Knowles
  Jo-Anne Knowles is an English actress.Having started acting at the age of 11, she has appeared in most of the major soaps, including ITV's Emmerdale, Four's Hollyoaks and BBC One's East Enders as Alfie Moon's girlfriend...
  
  
• Sue … Sharon Duce
  Sharon Duce
  Sharon Duce is a British actress, .Her biggest role was alongside Ray Brooks in the BBC comedy drama Big Deal .She has also appeared in:*Wycliffe,*The Royle Family*London's Burning,...
  
  
• Debt Collector … Andrew Vincent

Original broadcast: 20 May 2009, BBC One

"Dress to Impress"

Cast

• Jake … Ian Hart
  Ian Hart
  Ian Hart is an English stage, television and film actor.-Early life:Hart, the grandson of Irish immigrants, was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He is one of three siblings and was brought up in a Roman Catholic family...
  
  
• Laura … Dervla Kirwan
  Dervla Kirwan
  Dervla Kirwan is an Irish actress famous for roles in British television shows such as Ballykissangel and Goodnight Sweetheart...
  
  
• Daniel … Jack McMullen
  Jack McMullen
  Jack Michael McMullen is an actor from Liverpool. He is best known for his role as Finn Sharkey in Waterloo Road, as well as smaller appearances in Brookside and Grange Hill.- Career :...
  
  
• Tony … Ramon Tikaram
  Ramon Tikaram
  Ramon Pramod Junior Tikaram is a British stage and screen actor of Indo-Fijian and Malaysian descent.-Early and personal life:...
  
  
• Les … Neil Fitzmaurice
  Neil Fitzmaurice
  Neil Fitzmaurice is an English actor, comedian and writer.-Writing:Fitzmaurice's writing projects include That Peter Kay Thing, for which he received a British Comedy Award, and the critically acclaimed Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, in which he also appeared as "Ray-Von".Neil has also written two...
  
  
• Harry … Al Kossy
• Anne … Eileen O'Brien
• Lesley … Leanne Best
• Pinklady … Guy Burnet
  Guy Burnet
  Guy Burnet , a British film and television actor. He is best known for his work on the show Hollyoaks, but in recent years has also completed a number of roles in feature films.-Personal:...
  
  

Original broadcast: 21 May 2009, BBC One

"Butterfly Effect"

Cast

• Sylvie … Lesley Sharp
  Lesley Sharp
  Lesley Sharp is an English stage, film and television actress, particularly well known for her variety of British television roles including Clocking Off, Bob & Rose and afterlife.-Early life:...
  
  
• Barbara … Susan Cookson
  Susan Cookson
  Susan Cookson is an English television actress. She lives in Sheffield with her husband, actor Malcolm Scates, and her two children Ruari and Dan. She also has two sisters....
  
  
• Zach … Luke Bailey
  Luke Bailey (actor)
  Luke Bailey is a British actor best known for playing Sam Bateman in the long-running medical drama series Casualty, and comprehensive school pupil Marley Kelly in Waterloo Road, both on BBC One.-Television:...
  
  
• Kelly … Joanne Froggatt
  Joanne Froggatt
  - Early life, education and early career :Born and raised in the village of Littlebeck, Froggatt left her family home at the age of 13 to attend the Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead, Berkshire. In 1996, she made her TV début in the long-running ITV drama, The Bill, and shortly afterwards...
  
  
• Pat … Lisa Millet
• Sgt Connelly … Charles De'Ath
  Charles De'Ath
  Charles De'Ath, also known as Charlie De'Ath, Charles De-Ath, and Charles Death is a British film and television actor.-Acting:Charles' first role was in the television Fatherland.-Filmography:-External links:...
  
  
• Jacko … Elliott Tittensor
  Elliott Tittensor
  Elliott John Tittensor is an English actor, best known for his role of Carl Gallagher in the Channel 4 show, Shameless.-Career:...
  
  
• Stacy … Finn Atkins
  Finn Atkins
  Finn Rosanna Atkins is a British film, television and stage actress.-Early life:Growing up in Clifton area of Nottingham, Atkins attended Greencroft Primary School, Farnborough School and High Pavement College...
  
  
• Leo … Michael Ryan
• Policeman … Colin Parry
• Lad … Michael Taylor

Original broadcast: 22 May 2009, BBC One

Sauce for the Goose

Cast

• Bella ... Anna Massey
  Anna Massey
  Anna Raymond Massey, CBE was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner’s novel Hotel du Lac.-Early life:...
  
  
• Anne ... Susannah Harker
  Susannah Harker
  Susannah Harker is an English film, television, and theatre actor. She is the daughter of English actress Polly Adams and actor Richard Owens, and the great-niece of Gordon Adams. She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 1990 for her role as Mattie Storin in House of Cards...
  
  
• John ... Daniel Ryan
  Daniel Ryan (actor)
  Daniel Ryan is an English actor and writer.He is known for starring as Darren Alexander in the BBC drama comedy Linda Green, Andrew Gilligan in The Government Inspector, Andy Coulson in Steel River Blues and Kenny Reed in The Whistleblowers...
  
  
• Lynne ... Pooky Quesnel
  Pooky Quesnel
  Joanna Quesnel, known professionally as Pooky Quesnel, is an English actress, screenwriter and singer.-Background:Quesnel was raised in Eccles, Lancashire, along with her six siblings. She read English at Oxford University before spending a year at drama school...
  
  
• Ricky ... Jonty Stephens

Original broadcast: 1 November 2010, BBC One

Skies of Glass

Cast

• Mary Ann ... Claire Skinner
  Claire Skinner
  Claire L. Skinner is an English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television career.-Biography:Born and brought up in Hemel Hempstead, Skinner, the youngest daughter of a shopkeeper and an Irish-born secretary, was immensely shy as a child...
  
  
• Anthony ... Shaun Dooley
  Shaun Dooley
  Shaun Dooley is a British actor who regularly appears on television and in British Films.-Biography:Shaun Dooley was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. He studied at the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester between 1992 and 1995....
  
  
• Sarah ... Teresa Banham
  Teresa Banham
  Teresa Banham, also known and credited as Theresa Banham is a British television and theatre actress perhaps best known for playing the role of The Governor in the first part of the Doctor Who Christmas special, The End of Time and the role of Rebecca on the television show Robin...
  
  
• Peter ... Chris Wright
• Thom ... Steven Williamson
• Ruth ... Angela Holmes
• Lily ... Holly Mai Leighton
• Dean ... Neil Bell
  Neil Bell (actor)
  Neil Bell is a British actor, mainly on UK TV and in occasional films.Bell studied drama at Oldham College and has played character roles in such TV series as Buried, Shameless, Murphy's Law, Ideal, City Lights, The Bill and Casualty, and the films 24 Hour Party People and Dead Man's Shoes...
  
  
• Ian ... Ian Curley
  Ian Curley
  Ian Curley is a British auto racing driver, best known for his brief time in the 2005 British Touring Car Championship season. Previously he raced in the 2004 Renault Clio Cup, having a successful season with two race wins and a final point standing of fifth...
  
  
• Mizzy ... Jessica Baglow
  Jessica Baglow
  Jessica Baglow in Rossington, Doncaster, South Yorkshire) is a British actress. Her most notable TV role is that of pupil Karla Bentham in the BBC One drama Waterloo Road. The Bentham character has Asperger's syndrome...
  
  
• Toni ... Abby Mavers
• Gemma ... Katie McGlynn
• Digs ... Michael Taylor
• Liz ... Claire Kerrigan
• Policeman ... Thomas Aldersley
• Vanessa ... Kelli Hollis
  Kelli Hollis
  Kelli Hollis is a British actressIn July 2011, it was announced Kelli would be playing Ali Spencer in the ITV Soap Emmerdale.Hollis played Melanie Say in Emmerdale in 2002, portraying Yvonne Karib in Shameless during six years, starting in 2004...
  
  
• Baby Grace ... Carly Grace Edwards
• Newborn ... Naimh Whitehouse
• Newborn ... Sienna Harwood
• Older Baby ... Ivy Mill

Original broadcast: 2 November 2010, BBC One

Skin Deep

Cast

• Jean ... Jenny Agutter
  Jenny Agutter
  Jennifer Ann "Jenny" Agutter is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book, before moving on to adult roles and relocating to Hollywood.She...
  
  
• Frankie ... Robert Glenister
  Robert Glenister
  Robert Lewis Glenister is a British actor known for his roles as con man Ash "Three Socks" Morgan in the British TV series Hustle, and Nicholas Blake in the BBC spy drama Spooks.-Career:...
  
  
• Lindsay ... Nicola Stephenson
  Nicola Stephenson
  Nicola Stephenson is an English actress. She is known mainly for her roles in television, which include Margaret Clemence in Brookside, Julie Fitzjohn/Bradford in Holby City, Suzie Davidson in Clocking Off, Jackie in ITV's Christmas Lights/Northern Lights/City Lights, and Sarah Williams in BBC's...
  
  
• Nicola ... Lisa Faulkner
  Lisa Faulkner
  Lisa Tamsin Faulkner is an English actress and television personality.-Early life:Faulkner was educated at Tiffin Girls' School, Kingston upon Thames.When Faulkner was 16, her mother, Julie, died of cancer...
  
  
• Stylist ... Michelle Tate
• Tom ... Tom Lloyd-Roberts

Original broadcast: 3 November 2010, BBC One

Malaise

Cast

• Moose ... John Simm
  John Simm
  John Simm is an English stage and screen actor. In recent years he is best known for his roles as Sam Tyler in the detective drama Life on Mars and as The Master in the revival of the science fiction series Doctor Who, but he has also starred in many highly acclaimed award-winning television...
  
  
• Adam ... Ewen Bremner
  Ewen Bremner
  -Early life:Bremner was born in Edinburgh, the son of two art teachers. He attended Davidson's Mains Primary School and Portobello High School. He originally wanted to be a circus clown, but was offered a chance in show business by television director Richard D. Brooks. One of his first notable...
  
  
• Tina ... Susan Lynch
  Susan Lynch
  Susan Lynch is an actor from Northern Ireland.-Early life:Lynch was born in Corrinshego, Newry, County Armagh, Northern Ireland to an Italian mother and Irish father. Her brother is actor John Lynch, she has a sister, Pauline, who is a drama teacher at St...
  
  
• Jess ... Olivia Poole
• Christy ... Belinda Everett
• Politician ... Sylvie Gatrill

Original broadcast: 4 November 2010, BBC One

Letting Go

Cast

• Kirsty ... Naomi Radcliffe
  Naomi Radcliffe
  Naomi Radcliffe is an English actress. She was born in Oldham, Lancashire to Albert Radcliffe—a Canon of Manchester Cathedral—and Petrina, a teacher. She was educated at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, having not been accepted on her first attempt.Her first professional stage...
  
  
• Lee ... Jack Deam
  Jack Deam
  Jack Deam is an English actor. He used his Grandfather's name for his stage name. His most notable performance is of the pyromaniac Marty Fisher, who has Tourette syndrome, in Channel 4's Shameless....
  
  
• Sam ... Adam Long
• Harry ... Daniel York
• Brenda ... Maureen Beattie
• Shirley ... Beatrice Kelly
• Male Advisor 1 ... Chris Jack
• Male Advisor 2 ... Paul Simpson
• Female Advisor 1 ... Deborah Brian
• Jill ... Hilly Barber

Original broadcast: 5 November 2010, BBC One

Trust

Cast

• Eddie ... Roy Marsden
  Roy Marsden
  Roy Marsden is an English actor, who is probably best known for his portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations of P. D. James's detective novels.- Education :...
  
  
• Jack ... Gerard Kearns
  Gerard Kearns
  Gerard Kearns is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television. He played Ian Gallagher, one of the original characters in Channel 4's Shameless, for 6 years.- Career :...
  
  
• Shane ... Kieran O'Brien
  Kieran O'Brien
  Kieran O'Brien is an English actor.-Biography:O'Brien, who grew up in nearby Royton, began acting at a early age and was the star of a BBC TV series Gruey by the time he was 15. He also featured in several other series at the time in one-off or recurring roles...
  
  
• Natalie ... Jo Hartley
• Rickey ... Tachia Newall
• Billy ... Steve Bell
• Emily ... Jess Schofield

Original broadcast: 8 November 2010, BBC One

The Test

Cast

• Gabe ... Corin Redgrave
  Corin Redgrave
  Corin William Redgrave was an English actor and political activist.-Early life:Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, the only son and middle child of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...
  
  
• Theresa ... Hannah Gordon
  Hannah Gordon
  Hannah Cambell Grant Gordon is a Scottish actress who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television work, including Upstairs, Downstairs, Telford's Change, My Wife Next Door, Joint Account and an appearance in the final episode of One Foot in the Grave.-Early life:Gordon was born in...
  
  
• Cyn ... Maggie Steed
  Maggie Steed
  Maggie Steed is an English actress and comedienne.-Youth:After studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, she left the theatre for several years.-Career:...
  
  
• Andrew ... Antony Bessick
• Lynnie ... Samantha Power
• Police Officer ... Louise Eyo
• Chloe ... Kimberley Slack

Original broadcast: 9 November 2010, BBC One

This episode was dedicated to the memory of Corin Redgrave, who died seven months prior to broadcast

Losing My Religion

Cast

• Dave ... Hugo Speer
  Hugo Speer
  Hugo Speer is an English actor.He was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and educated at Harrogate Grammar School. He studied acting at The Arts Educational School....
  
  
• Joanne ... Ruth Gemmell
  Ruth Gemmell
  -Early life:Ruth Gemmell was born in Darlington, Durham, England. She has three brothers. She attended an all girls school in Darlington called Polam Hall.Her parents divorced when she was a child and she moved with her mother to Darlington from Barnard Castle....
  
  
• Jamie ... Nico Mirallegro
  Nico Mirallegro
  Nico Cristian Mirallegro is a British actor who played the role of Barry "Newt" Newton in the British soap opera Hollyoaks between 22 October 2007 and 25 June 2010....
  
  
• Mr Georgeson ... George Irving
  George Irving (English actor)
  George Irving is a British actor who is probably most famous for playing Anton Meyer in Holby City from 1999 to 2002...
  
  
• Father Dwyer ... Tom Mannion
  Tom Mannion
  Tom Mannion is a British actor.His television credits include Brookside, Up the Garden Path, The Bill, Boon, Cadfael, Doctor Finlay, Doctors, Eleventh Hour, Holby City, Hustle, Life on Mars, Midsomer Murders, New Tricks, Red Cap, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Spatz, Taggart, The Agatha Christie...
  
  
• Maureen ... Jane Lowe
  Jane Lowe
  Jane Lowe is a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as prisoner Monica Lindsay in the first season of the hit British drama series, Bad Girls.-Biography:...
  
  
• Katie ... Amber Herod

Original broadcast: 10 November 2010, BBC One

Rules of the Game

Cast

• Dave ... Alfie Allen
• Steven ... Richard Fleeshman
  Richard Fleeshman
  Richard Jonathan Fleeshman is an English actor and singer-songwriter. His television career began as a twelve year old, playing Craig Harris for four years in Coronation Street and most recently "All The Small Things"...
  
  
• Ruth ... Olivia Hallinan
  Olivia Hallinan
  Olivia Hallinan is an English actress best known for her role as Laura Timmins in the BBC TV series Lark Rise to Candleford and also as Kim in the critically acclaimed Sugar Rush. She also starred as Ellie in Girls in Love....
  
  
• Kaycee ... Rebecca Atkinson
  Rebecca Atkinson
  Rebecca Atkinson is an English actress and model. She is best known for playing Jamie Maguire's wife, Karen Maguire in Channel 4's Shameless, and she has been in the show since the inception...
  
  
• Gail ... Paula Wilcox
  Paula Wilcox
  Paula Wilcox is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Chrissy in the British comedy Man About the House .-Early sitcom fame:...
  
  
• Robbie ... Antony Booth
• Jim ... Greg Kelly
• Waiter ... John Draycott

Original broadcast: 11 November 2010, BBC One

I Am Darleen Fyles

Cast

• Darleen ... Donna Lavin
• Treena ... Lorraine Ashbourne
  Lorraine Ashbourne
  Lorraine Ashbourne is an English stage, film and television actress.-Career:She has appeared on British television series and television movies, including: The Street,True Dare Kiss, Thin Ice, In a Land of Plenty,...
  
  
• Diane ... Anne Reid
  Anne Reid
  Anne Reid, MBE is a BAFTA Award-nominated English film and television actress from Newcastle upon Tyne, best known for her roles as Valerie Tatlock in Coronation Street and Jean in dinnerladies....
  
  
• James ... Edmund Davies
• Jen ... Danielle Henry
• Bob ... Stephen Chapman
• Lou ... Jodie Kate Hamblet
• Rachel ... Alice Grice
• Tony ... Craig Cheetham
  Craig Cheetham
  Craig Cheetham is an English actor. One of his main roles was in Peter Kay's Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere in which he played the character Billy Shannon...
  
  
• Stacy ... Ellie Leach

Original broadcast: 12 November 2010, BBC One

Transmissions

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	18 May 2009	22 May 2009	5
2	1 November 2010	12 November 2010	10
3	14 November 2011	18 November 2011	5

External links

• "Moving On, new drama series for BBC One Daytime…" BBC Press Office
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/01_january/14/moving_on.shtml