The icons return... MEET THE COMEBACK QUEENS OF 2O2O

It has been more than 25 years since Glenda Jackson was a regular on our screens (she’s best known for films such as Ken Russell’s Women In Love, as well as award-winning TV series Elizabeth R for the BBC). Now, aged 83, the double-Oscar winner is back after spending the past two decades as an MP for Labour, most recently in Hampstead and Kilburn (and she also served as a junior transport minister under Tony Blair). This year, she makes a return to our television screens, playing a woman with dementia in a moving BBC One adaptation of Emma Healey’s bestselling novel, Elizabeth Is Missing. In the series, Jackson makes an electrifying comeback, taking the lead role in the gripping mystery’s tale as Maud. Elsewhere, Jane Horrocks (scene-stealing Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous) bounces back in The Singapore Grip (out this spring on ITV), a story focused on a British family living in Singapore during the Second World War, at the time of the Japanese invasion. Finally, the true star of Gavin & Stacey, Alison Steadman (Pam) returns to television in Life (also out this spring on BBC One), a six-part drama following four separate storylines, in one block of Manchester flats, from the team behind Doctor Foster.