Cast your mind back to last Christmas. If you peer past the Quality Street wrappers and the enormous mound of your own post-Christmas-dinner stomach, you may dimly remember catching sight of Harry Potter's Emma Watson on TV, starring in Ballet Shoes.
An adaptation of the famous Noel Streatfield children's book, the story followed three orphans raised as sisters, who go to work on the London stage after their guardian goes missing. Potter's Watson starred as the eldest of the three, along with Emilia Fox, Marc Warren, Victoria Wood, Gemma Jones and Richard Griffiths. The film was rather sweet, and is now set to be released on the big screen in the States, presumably to give Potter fans desperate for a Hermione fix something to tide them over until next July.
So this story really has nothing to do with the UK, but it's nice to see a Streatfield story get any attention at all, and it also allows us the chance to congratulate Emma Watson on getting three As at A-level. Who said Hermione was typecast?