A poignant, touching tale of a young man afflicted by Multiple Sclerosis, Go Now suffers little of the sentimentality which often overwhelms television dramas dealing with illness and disability – which writer Jimmy McGovern contemptuously describes as ‘wheelchair plays’. This, and the unusually authentic feel, owes much to the fact that McGovern’s co-writer, newcomer Paul Henry Powell, is himself a sufferer of MS, and based the drama on his own experiences.
Broadcast in the same short series of contemporary love stories that produced the controversial ecstasy romance Loved Up, the drama takes time to build up the romance between builder and amateur footballer Nick and hotel administrator Karen before charting Nick’s descent into illness. The early scenes establish Nick as a man defined by his physical activity – in his sport, his job and his sexuality – which makes his physical deterioration all the more difficult for him to accept.
The writers and director Michael Winterbottom (who, like star Robert Carlyle, had previously worked with McGovern on Cracker), largely provided by Nick’s salt-of-the-earth mates, including the then little-known, pre-Cold Feet James Nesbitt as best mate Tony. _screenonline.org.uk_

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This classic BBC TV production, is a dramatisation of George Eliot’s novel: set at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, the story chronicles the life, loves, foibles, and politics of the fictional English town of Middlemarch. The plot centres on the socially-conscious, but naive, Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey), whose disastrous match to the pedantic Reverend Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide) sets in motion a chain of events that will change the face of Middlemarch forever. The efforts of the dashing young physician Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge) to modernise the medical practices at the new hospital causes quite a stir, both in the political power structure, headed by the evil Mr. Nicholas Bulstrode (Peter Jeffrey), and the heart of sweet Rosamund Vincy (Trevyn McDowell), the town beauty. Smaller plots interweave the action and lead to reconciliation, resignation, remuneration, and resolution.

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