Jimmy McGovern

All right.

Finally, we have the third installment of Jimmy McGovern's -"Clink" anthology series, Time, which sees a return of, uh, Siobhan Finneran's chaplain, Mary Louise O'Dell.

But it's otherwise obviously a completely new story, 'cause it's an anthology, and this time is set in a young offender's institute, uh, where David Tennant works and he is Officer Bobby Bailey.

Uh, you will be shocked, shocked to hear that this is yet another harrowing [laughs] story of life on the inside and it's not a musical and/or a comedy.

... honestly, watching, watching this show.

And I had to, but I had to carry o- had to carry on watching because it's so gripping, so commit...

And Jimmy McGovern co-written with Sammy Begler, who I think he's nurtured and mentored, um, uh, who wrote a, his own, a play.

That's about happened.

Uh, well, we did talk about this as, as we joked earlier.

It was a toss-up between this and the new Jimmy McGovern series of Time, and we decided on this, though Time, the new series, starts Sunday on BBC One at 9 PM.

But it is the third series, and we have talked about it-

Yes

when I was a kid, you know, alls I ever wanted to do was to be in something like that.

My aim and my ambition when I was, when I was younger was to, I really wanted to be in a Jimmy McGovern piece.

So for me, to be in Time, um, was just, was just an absolute gift.

Do you know what I mean?

And Time is back for its third season.

This is the anthology which is set around the prison system from Jimmy McGovern.

First two of these have been fantastic.

BBC One, 11th of October at 9:00 PM.

And I love that Redfern now was basically an anthology, different stories, but some of the characters would cross over into each other's work.

And also I remember going to see Jimmy McGovern in conversation when he was here in Sydney working on it because they created that Indigenous unit at the ABC.

They got a bunch of writers and they brought the guy who created Cracker over here to explain to them, I'm on your side, but if I'm going to say to you that's no good, it's because you've got to remember you're making a TV series and story is the key.

And Jimmy McGovern taught them about story and then shaped Redfern now into what it is.

And it has had an extraordinary effect for years and years afterwards.

I think one of the most important shows in Australian TV history.

Well, I was at drama school, and then halfway through the third year, I got a job, so I left early.

I got the Jimmy McGovern series, this show called The Lakes, so I left to film that up in the Lake District.

So I got an agent off the back.

I did a show, the first show of the third year, I got an agent then and then started getting put up for stuff.

The whole bit about sparing a life where the Doctor tells her it's not proof of morality, only how people who do monstrous things live with themselves, and Margaret answers back with a piece about his life in the TARDIS, and the Doctor can't challenge her observation.

A very Jim- it's very Jimmy McGovern in how it confronts evil, I think.

However, I wish it didn't have the big earthquake climax.

It kind of defeats the purpose of a budget saving script."