13:15, Thu, Apr 2, 2026 Updated: 13:16, Thu, Apr 2, 2026 ITV viewers were tearful as Vera ended last year, with the much-loved detective hanging up her bucket hat after 14 years. The ...

To say that I like Brenda Blethyn is like saying Princess Anne is fond of horses. I have been a huge fan of the star ever since her breakthrough role as Cynthia Purley in the 1996 film Secrets & Lies.

Brenda Blethyn's newest television project, A Woman of Substance, has arrived on screens, though the adaptation hasn't won universal approval. The Channel 4 drama brings Barbara Taylor Bradford's ...

A new retelling of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s hit novel A Woman of Substance. Plus, cracking comedy We Might Regret This. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, Channel 4 Forty years after the ...

Vera fans sitting down to A Woman of Substance on Channel 4 might initially struggle to recognise their dear Brenda Blethyn in this rags-to-riches saga. Could that woman with the bouffant, jumbo ...

When Brenda Blethyn stood down from her lead role in the popular detective series Vera after 14 years, she assumed that she would never work again. But the BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning actress, who ...

For veteran actor Brenda Blethyn, playing the heroine in the new dramatization of 1980s blockbuster A Woman of Substance had a poignant resonance. Blethyn, who plays Emma Harte in Barbara Taylor ...

Brenda Blethyn, known for starring in Vera, has revealed a personal connection to her upcoming Channel 4 drama, where she stars alongside Jessica Reynolds, Emmett J. Scanlan, Harry Cadby and Will ...

Brenda Blethyn will be back on our TV screens soon in Channel 4's revenge drama A Woman of Substance, but if you can't wait that long, then we've got just the movie for you to watch tonight. Released ...

Vera star Brenda Blethyn has revealed she has no plans to hang up her acting boots despite nearing her 80th birthday. Speaking to Prima magazine, Blethyn also confessed that despite her decades-long ...