Top BBC TV dramas will again focus on Manchester in 2012.
Sharpe star Sean Bean has shed his hard man image to play cross-dressing English teacher Simon Gaskell in a new series of award-winning Accused.
Currently filming in and around the city, Simon’s alter ego Tracie Tremarco is involved in an unconventional quest for love.
This is England actor Stephen Graham also guest stars in the same episode alongside former Corrie star Rachel Leskovac.
Sean said: "I’ve wanted to work on a Jimmy McGovern drama for a while and I think this cracking script really delivers a powerful, emotional drama."
Didsbury comedian John Bishop has already filmed the role of troubled father Peter in the second four-part series of the BBC1 drama.
His episode is written by McGovern and Hyde-born former M.E.N. journalist Danny Brocklehurst, whose recent credits include Exile, filmed in Bury and Ramsbottom.
It features former Shameless star Anne-Marie Duff and Olivia Colman as two mothers.
Sheridan Smith stars as palliative care nurse with Anna Maxwell Martin also appearing in the series. Accused focuses on a different crime and punishment every week and is made by the same TV team who created Salford filmed and set The Street.
Sir Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid take the lead as Alan and Celia in a BBC1 romantic comedy series Antony and Cleopatra.
Made by Manchester’s Red Production Company, it also features former Corrie actress Sarah Lancashire as Celia’s daughter Caroline. It tells the story of would-be childhood sweethearts reunited after 60 years.
Life on Mars favourite Dean Andrews also features in the six-part series.
It is penned by former Corrie writer Sally Wainwright, whose other TV hits include Manchester cop drama Scott and Bailey.
She said: "I can’t remember being this excited about writing a TV series.
"It’s everything good, uplifting, life-affirming, funny."
War of the Roses is a new drama serial based on the books by historian and author Philippa Gregory. It will be set against the backdrop of the epic battle between the Yorks and Lancasters for the right to rule England. But it will be told from the perspective of the women who shaped their men.
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OMG He was my pin up man. Now I'll never see him in the same light
She's well fit.
Looks like an average Bird from middlesbrough.
Looks like my mother-in-law !
What is it about trannies which appeals to the media so much? I wonder if the story would have appeared here if he was playing a disabled man, or a member of an ethnic minority?
Cross dressing - transsexual - transvestite ?
Whateverwhichway - well done if the storyline is positive rather than expoitative.
You look hot Sean, even with the 5 O'clock shadow!
Should have just used the actress who played Liz MacDonald in Coronation Street, she always looked like a bloke in drag....
12-pinter
I've had worse :s
What is it with men in women's clothes? Makes me feel icky.
I have that same dress.......
He'll never sell any mobile phones dressed like that.