The Madame Blanc Mysteries: The Madame Blanc Mysteries Christmas Special 2025
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Tuesday, December 23 on 5 +1 (38)
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The Madame Blanc Mysteries Christmas Special 2025
Season 1, Episode 1
It's Christmas Eve, and Jeremy, Judith, Jean and Dom have been invited to an exclusive event at the Musée de Sainte Victoire. On arrival, they meet flashy millionaires George and Aurielle, who are determined to put the old museum back on the map. However, a rare Ormolu box once owned by Marie Antoinette, a bomb and a murderer soon turn the festive season into a nightmare
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Cast & Crew
Sally Lindsay
(Actor)
.. Jean White
Steve Edge
(Actor)
.. Dom Hayfield
Sue Holderness
(Actor)
.. Judith Lloyd-James
Robin Askwith
(Actor)
.. Jeremy Lloyd-James
Sue Vincent
(Actor)
.. Gloria Beauchamp
Jacqueline Berces
(Actor)
.. Gendarme Richard
Alex Gaumond
(Actor)
.. Gendarme Caron
Tony Robinson
(Actor)
.. Uncle Patrick
John Thomson
(Actor)
.. George Alfonse
Kacey Ainsworth
(Actor)
.. Aurielle Alfonse
Raji James
(Actor)
.. Dr Ali Pardeep
Manjinder Virk
(Actor)
.. Sangita Pardeep
Bartholomew Boutellis
(Actor)
.. Gabriel Dubois
Thierry Picaut
(Actor)
.. Yves Condu
Marta Vella
(Actor)
.. Suzanne
Dermot Boyd
(Director)
Myf Hopkins
(Producer)
Mike Benson
(Executive producer)
Andy Morgan
(Executive producer)
Caroline Roberts-Cherry
(Executive producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Sally Lindsay
(Actor)
.. Jean White
Born:
July 08, 1973
in
Stockport
Quote:
"Being on a soap is the best training you'll ever have."
Trivia:
Lindsay performed as Dolly Parton on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes.
Best Known For:
Coronation Street and Mount Pleasant.
Early-life:
Sally was born in Stockport on July 8, 1973. She has a younger brother, Christopher, with whom she's very close - she was the best man at his wedding. Her first brush with showbusiness came when, as a member of the St Winifred's Choir, she two weeks at number one thanks to the song Grandma. After school, she studied English language and literature at Hull University.
Career:
Lindsay performed stand-up before turning to acting. Her TV debut came in an episode of The Royle Family in 2000. A year later she made a brief appearance alongside close friend Peter Kay in his cult sitcom Phoenix Nights. A few months on, Lindsay played Shelley Unwin for the first time in Coronation Street, a role she played until 2006. Since then, she has starred in Reggie Perrin, Scott & Bailey, Mount Pleasant, Still Open All Hours and Ordinary Lies.
Steve Edge
(Actor)
.. Dom Hayfield
Sue Holderness
(Actor)
.. Judith Lloyd-James
Robin Askwith
(Actor)
.. Jeremy Lloyd-James
Born:
October 12, 1950
in
Southport
Best Known For:
His naughty 'Confessions of' films in the 1970s.
Early-life:
Born Ronald Askwiths on October 12, 1950, in Southport, Lancashire. He has two younger siblings. After he overcame polio as a boy, his family moved to Eastcote in Middlesex. He attended Merchant Taylors' School, Rickmansworth, until he was expelled. However, he had shown an aptitude for music and the stage, performing in several school productions, and later acquired an agent. He also studied English and drama at the University of Bristol.
Career:
Askwith won parts in commercials before catching the eye of director Lindsay Anderson, who cast him in the classic film If..... After this, he was on TV and in films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He is most famous for his role as Timothy Lea in the Confessions sex comedies. He also appeared in Carry On Girls. He was actually fourth choice for the lead role in the Confessions films; it was previously turned down by Richard Beckinsale, Richard O'Sullivan and Dennis Waterman. He's also appeared in more serious projects, including Pier Paolo Pasolini's version of The Canterbury Tales and Nicholas and Alexandra. Among his other films are Horror Hospital, The Flesh and Blood Show and Tower of Evil. His most recent TV work includes roles in Coronation Street, Benidorm, and Hollyoaks.
Quote:
"I was at a dinner with some actor friends of mine one night, and there was a dig at some of the films I've made in my career, and Michael Winner said to them, 'Ah, yes… but when was the last time any of your films made any money?'"
Trivia:
Still active on the stage, Askwith regularly appears in pantomimes.
Sue Vincent
(Actor)
.. Gloria Beauchamp
Jacqueline Berces
(Actor)
.. Gendarme Richard
Alex Gaumond
(Actor)
.. Gendarme Caron
Tony Robinson
(Actor)
.. Uncle Patrick
Born:
August 15, 1946
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing Baldrick in the Blackadder series and fronting Time Team.
Early-life:
Tony Robinson was born in Hackney, London, on August 15, 1946, and brought up near Epping Forest. His father was a civil servant and his mother took part in amateur dramatics. He caught the acting bug at the age of 12 when he landed the role of the Artful Dodger in a West End production of Oliver! After leaving school with four O-levels, he studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career:
Robinson's first TV appearance was on the children's show Play Away in 1971, and he made his film debut in 1975, with a small part in the John Wayne movie Brannigan. He featured in Channel 4 satire Who Dares Wins in 1983, but his big TV break came that same year when he played Baldrick in The Black Adder, which ran for six years. In 1989, he wrote and starred in Bafta award-winning children's series Maid Marian And Her Merry Men. Five years later, he began presenting Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team and has since hosted The Worst Jobs In History and documentaries about figures including Macbeth and Boudica. Away from TV, he has toured the country with his one-man show and is a prolific children's author.
Quote:
"In the UK virtually all of our landscape has been continually worked and reworked by human beings for thousands of years. Our country is like a big trifle of history."
John Thomson
(Actor)
.. George Alfonse
Born:
April 02, 1969
in
Salford
Best Known For:
Cold Feet and The Fast Show.
Early-life:
Thomson was born Patrick Francis McAleer in Salford on April 2, 1969 to Mary McAleer, who gave him up for adoption six weeks later. He was adopted from the Catholic Children's Rescue Society by Andrew and Marita Thomson, a businessman and a bookseller from Didsbury. He attended Runshaw College between 1985 and 1987, studying for four A-levels, including theatre studies. He was described as "clearly a talent for comedy". Following this, he turned down a scholarship in America to study drama at Manchester Polytechnic.
Career:
While at university, Thomson met Steve Coogan, who secured him a job on Spitting Image. They would continue to collaborate on such programmes as Coogan's Run , the Paul and Pauline Calf video diaries (where he played Fat Bob) and Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge, which he also contributed to writing. In 1994, Thomson appeared in the BBC sketch series The Fast Show. He made guest appearances on various series such as Soldier Soldier, Playing the Field and Men Behaving Badly in the 1990s before being cast as Pete Gifford in the ITV hit comedy drama Cold Feet. He participated in the BBC series Comic Relief does Fame Academy and chalked up several TV shows before starring in another TV series, New Street Law, about a Manchester chambers. He has since appeared in Kingdom and Coronation Street.
Quote:
"People who know me know me, but the public believe what they read in the papers. They stare at me. I wonder what they're thinking."
Trivia:
Thomson was a contestant in the 2013 series of Celebrity MasterChef.
Kacey Ainsworth
(Actor)
.. Aurielle Alfonse
Born:
October 19, 1968
in
Ware, Hertfordshire
Best Known For:
Playing Little Mo in EastEnders.
Early-life:
Born on October 19, 1968 in Ware, Hertfordshire to Hazel and Edward. She attended Westfield Junior School in Hoddesdon and Presdales School in Ware, Hertfordshire.
Career:
Ainsworth had guest appearances in a number of TV series, such as The Bill and A Touch of Frost, before landing the role of Little Mo in EastEnders. She stayed with the soap opera from 2000 until 2006. Since then, she has starred in such TV series as Holby Blue, The Wright Way and Call the Midwife. Her biggest role since appearing in EastEnders was as Cathy Keating in Granchester.
Quote:
On EastEnders: "I look back on my time on EastEnders with real nostalgia. The Slaters made a big impact and it all worked well."
Trivia:
In 2002, she won Best Actress at the British Soap Award, Most Popular Actress at National Television Awards and Best Soap Actress at TV Quick Awards.
Raji James
(Actor)
.. Dr Ali Pardeep
Manjinder Virk
(Actor)
.. Sangita Pardeep
Best Known For:
Being a multi-talented writer, director and actor.
Early-life:
Manjinder was born in Coventry and comes from a family of three children. Her first taste of acting came at the Belgrade Youth Theatre in Coventry and she went on to become artistic director of Pangram Dance Theatre with her brother, Hardish. She earned a degree in contemporary dance at De Montfort University in Leicester. She made her TV acting debut in an episode of Holby City in 1999.
Career:
Guest roles for Virk followed in Doctors, the TV film Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, The Bill, Swiss Toni, and Green Wing. She had a recurring role in ITV medical drama Monroe. More recently, she has starred in The Thick of It, Hunted, Call the Midwife and Ordinary Lives. Her other TV credits include the TV movies The Bradford Riots and Britz. Away from acting, she started writing when she joined the Royal Court Young Writers Programme. Her first commission in 2003 was a stage play called Glow for Theatre Centre. In 2010, she won a Best Actress gong at the British Independent Film Awards for the documentary The Arbor.
Quote:
"I've written and devised plays since I was at school. My whole family are in the arts, my mum and dad are writers, it's really natural to be doing it."
Trivia:
Virk's 2013 short film Out of Darkness won the Best Drama Award and the Best of Fest Award at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival.
Bartholomew Boutellis
(Actor)
.. Gabriel Dubois
Thierry Picaut
(Actor)
.. Yves Condu
(Actor)
.. Ellie
Marta Vella
(Actor)
.. Suzanne
Dermot Boyd
(Director)
Myf Hopkins
(Producer)
Mike Benson
(Executive producer)
Andy Morgan
(Executive producer)
Caroline Roberts-Cherry
(Executive producer)
