Proud Mum

Maureen Lipman is delighted to be back on our TV screens, on a semi-regular basis, for the first time since the mid-90s, playing stand-in Rovers Return landlady Lillian.

Maureen had expressed, publicly, her bafflement at being dropped by television executives ( Her age - she's the wrong side of 50 - and a couple of comedy flops, Agony Again and About Face, may have something to do with their decision, although that's by the by).