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Her sister Coky is a TV director whose credits include The Hour, Blackpool and What Remains.

Her sister, Coky, is a TV director whose credits include The Hour, Blackpool and What Remains.

There have been more than halfa-dozen TV series based on the book, but the difference this time is that director Coky Giedroyc has managed to fashion a relatively fresh production out of such familiar material thanks to a script by Peter Bowker (Occupation/Desperate Romantics).

There are plenty of tears and laughter in Coky Giedroyc's drama, not to mention drunken female bonding, but the film and its emotions ring hollow.

There are plenty of tears, laughter and drunken female bonding in Coky Giedroyc's drama, but the film and its emotions ring hollow.

The children, all aged between four and 11, managed to get the 100strong audience on their feet and dancing when they performed Le Boogie - the French version of the Hoky Coky.

Teasingly titled but hardly making it to first base, "Women Talking Dirty" is an embarrassing sophomore stumble by Brit director Coky Giedroyc after her striking bow three years ago with the gritty "Stella Does Tricks." Desperately peppy, disappointingly free of dirty talk and overall about as believable as thesp Helena Bonham Carter's Scottish accent, pic is another example of a movie whose faults are in direct proportion to the number of producers, with no clear idea of what it wants to be and a script that thrashes around like a drowning cat.

The Indonesian prisoner to be released under the decree is Coky Yahya Aritonang, who was jailed in 1990 for defaming Suharto during a rally to protest a private developer's takeover of farmlands near Jakarta to build a golf course.

My brother Miko, my sisters Coky and Kasia and, of course, my comedy partner Sue Perkins.

Andrew, who plays Heathcliff's love rival Edgar, says: "I thought Peter's adaptation was a very modern take and I wanted to work with the director, Coky Giedroyc.