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MUMBAI:
Kim Cattrall who got famous for her role as Samantha Jones
in Sex and the City joins a growing list of stars scheduled
to attend next month's television trade Mipcom 2007.
The
British-born actress will be in Cannes to support the new
television drama My Boy Jack an Ecosse Films/WGBH Boston/Ingenious
Broadcasting co-production for ITV in association with Octagon
Films and Granada International.
Adapted
by David Haig from his original play it tells the tale of
Rudyard Kipling's son and his efforts to join the army in
World War One, despite having poor eyesight. Cattrall plays
Jack's mother, Caroline 'Carrie' Kipling, with David Haig
in the role of Rudyard Kipling and Harry Potter star
Daniel Radcliffe as Jack.
The
other international personalities attending Mipcom include
Australian actress Gia Carides, best known for her starring
role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. She will
present her new drama series East of Everything. Surfing
on the wave of Green TV, telenovelas writer, Gloria
Perez, will introduce her new ecological mini-series Amazonia.
Young
British clairvoyant, Lisa Williams, who communicates with
the dead, will promote her TV show Lisa Williams: life
among the dead. The global bestselling series Midsomer
Murders actors, John Nettles and Jason Hughes will be
celebrating 10 years of the show at Mipcom.
British
actor and musician Max Beesley, best known for his starring
role in Hotel Babylon, will present the new thriller
The Last Enemy and the celebrity French writer Marc
Lévy, whose novel Just like Heaven was acquired
by Steven Spielberg, will introduce the new series Will
You be There, adapted from his book Où es-tu?.
On
10 October, the third edition of the Mipcom Mobile and Internet
TV Awards will be hosted by British showman Brian Conley.
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