We are to be treated to a new reality show based in Notting Hill. The Times headline on the announcement read First the film, now Notting Hill the soap opera.
But the film was not the first, & this is not the first Notting Hill soap opera. That honour goes to The Crezz, a Coronation Street for the middle class southerner, filmed in Elgin Crescent during the long hot summer of 1976.
It was appallingly awful, despite a distinguished cast. So that’s why media types prefer to forget about it.
