Summary
'I'm not good at switching off,' admits Stephen Fry - actor, novelist, director, writer and presenter. "Boredom and inactivity to me are absolute anathema. "Lucky then that the man once described by Michael Parkinson as having a brain the size of Kent is keeping himself busy. This week sees his first appearance in an ITV drama series since Jeeves And Wooster, when he stars as solicitor Peter Kingdom in the self-titled Kingdom.
"This sounds impossibly conceited, but so much television is dreadful, that the idea of doing something good is rather pleasing," Stephen says. "Whenever I've played lawyers in the past, it's always been a sneering barrister. So it's nice to play a kindly country solicitor."See the full content of this document
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Kingdom Comeback ; Stephen Fry On the New Role That has Persuaded Him to Return to Tv Drama Kingdom Sunday, Itv1, 9pm
Set in the fictitious Norfolk town of Market Shipborough, the drama follows Peter Kingdom as he attempts to get over the mysterious death of his br...
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