{"id":4649,"date":"2024-09-21T15:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:31:42","slug":"funny-woman-filming-in-blackpool-and-st-annes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/funny-woman-filming-in-blackpool-and-st-annes\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Woman Filming in Blackpool and St Annes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Trinian&#8217;s and James Bond actress Gemma Arterton is pictured here being filmed in St Annes for a TV series, an adaptation of Nick Hornby&#8217;s book &#8211; Funny Girls. The crew were in the resort for several days, filming scenes for the Sky Original show, the story taking place in Blackpool in the 1960s.\u00a0Arterton was shooting scenes in St Anne&#8217;s on 24 September 2021, close to the pier and on the beach, and was almost unrecognisable in a bleach blonde wig and retro-inspired costume. At the time of filming, the name for the series adaptation of Nick Hornby&#8217;s best-selling novel Funny Girls hadn&#8217;t been decided. Since then the producers settled on Funny Woman as the title for the television series.<\/p>\n<p>The story features Arterton playing Barbara Parker who becomes Sophie Straw and finds her comic voice in a male dominated world.\u00a0The Sky Original comedy drama was available on Sky Max and streaming service NOW in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gemma Arterton Is A Secret ARTIST?! \ud83c\udfa8 | Funny Woman\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eqNGqQRNlOk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4660\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Funny-Woman-Wide-1000.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"422\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4654\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Funny-Woman-Crop-2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"555\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Trinian&#8217;s and James Bond actress Gemma Arterton is pictured here being filmed in St Annes for a TV series, an adaptation of Nick Hornby&#8217;s book &#8211; Funny Girls. The crew were in the resort for several days, filming scenes for the Sky Original show, the story taking place in Blackpool in the 1960s.\u00a0Arterton was shooting scenes in St Anne&#8217;s on 24 September 2021, close to the pier and on the beach, and was almost unrecognisable in a bleach blonde wig and retro-inspired costume. 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