Claire Sweeney: 'My Good Ship Murder character is so different to Corrie's Cassie'
ok.co.ukChannel 5’s latest murder mystery drama is about to set sail - and Coronation Street fans can expect a mini soap reunion to take place on board.
Shayne Ward, Catherine Tyldesley and Claire Sweeney are swapping the cobbles for the high seas in The Good Ship Murder, a new series from Ridley creator Paul Mayhew Thompson.The X Factor winner Shayne stars as Jack, an ex-copper-turned-cruise-singer who’s tasked with catching a killer on the luxury liner alongside its First Officer Kate, played by Catherine. “For me, I’m playing a detective for the first time - and the fact that I get to sing as well, it just felt like it was the right time for this to happen,” Shayne says. “Jack has spent 20 years in the Great Manchester CID and now he’s left the force to become an in-house cabaret singer.
I just thought, ‘Yeah, that’s me.’” When a wave of murders rocks the cruise Jack is working on, he’s thrust back into detective mode as the cruise sails from Southampton across the Mediterranean.
Meanwhile Claire, who currently stars as Tyrone’s long-lost mother Cassie on Coronation Street, plays Jack’s cabaret boss Beverley - and is well experienced in cruise life. “I started singing on cruise ships when I was 19 and I love cruising,” Beverley says. “It’s sun, sand, sea, murder mystery and a show tune thrown in.
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