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| BOMBSHELL |
 Bombshell on TV ONE Tuesdays at 8.30pm Starring Zoe Lucker in her first post-Footballers' Wives role, Bombshell is an action packed series about the conflicting face of the modern British Army. Jenna Marston is an ambitious and committed Captain in the army who's nursing a big secret...she's having an affair with her boss, Major Nick Welling (Jeremy Sheffield). It's an affair that could cost them their jobs, but for both of them, theirs is a passion that cannot die. Add into this mix Nick's wife, the alcoholic army brat Valerie Welling (Lucy Cohu). Stuck on army bases her whole life, Valerie's only ambition is an obsessive desire for status among the army wives. She needs Nick to be promoted. But when Nick rescues Jenna from a bomb-blast in episode one, he is hideously injured and loses the lower half of his leg, effectively ending his chances of promotion. Like a woman possessed Valerie will now stop at nothing to destroy the woman who ruined her husband's army career and to keep the man she loves at her side. Bombshell is about a modern army that is at war with itself. To get recruits the Army now has to open its door to "all sorts", and Nick and Jenna find themselves managing a rag tag of raw recruits. Played by a supporting cast of exciting new talent these characters include: Dean McGowan - a happy-go-lucky charmer with an eye for the ladies and a dodgy sideline in knocked-off booze, he's nursing a secret from his past that threatens to come back and haunt him. Karina Fuller - a blonde bombshell who's dabbled in prostitution and is now sworn off men, she engages in a sham relationship with Dean in order to swing married quarters, but then ends up falling for him for real. Stacey Dawes - her frank speaking and bullish behaviour soon upsets the old guard who don't want women in the army, especially women who are better at being soldiers than they are. Luke Bates - a loose cannon with dangerous far-right tendencies, he soon comes into violent conflict with his fellow recruits. Presiding over them is Boyd Billington (Robert Beck) - a hang-over from the old days of the army, he'll go to any lengths to toughen up his new recruits. Just as Bad Girls offered a whole new angle on a woman's prison drama, Bombshell has a rich new focus on the Army. The tough regime and the old-versus-the-new conflict provide a closed hierarchical world in which a mixed bag of men and women are thrust together, living on the edge - trained and prepared to kill. |