Bridget Christie is trying to make a film follow-up to her Channel 4 series The Change.
The comedian has called the comedy’s cancellation after two series a ‘huge blow’ – and now says she feels a ‘duty’ to finish telling the story of her character Linda.
She revealed her plans to complete the narrative when she appeared on Kerry Godliman and Jen Brister's Memory Lane podcast.
When Godliman told her she should make a film of The Change, given its abrupt ending and cinematic scope. Christie replied: ‘I am. Well I’m going to try. I think it could absolutely exist as a film with an ending.
‘I felt very creatively frustrated by by not finishing that story, because I feel like that story isn't told enough. And I feel like people wanted to know what happened.’
The series revolved around a woman who, on the verge of menopause, goes on a voyage of discovery in the Forest of Dean – which struck a chord with many viewers.
Christie wrote the scripts, and was joined in the cast by the likes of Monica Dolan, Susan Lynch, Jim Howick, Jerome Flynn, Tanya Moodie, Paul Whitehouse, Laura Checkley, Liza Tarbuck and Omid Djalili.
Se told the Memory Lane podcast: : This sounds very, very horribly boastful, but the messages that we got from women saying, "I just feel seen and heard for the for the first time on TV" – and that's nothing to do with me. It's more about somebody's story – a woman of our age – having an adventure
‘I really wanted it to not be about a marriage breakdown or someone just having loads of sex everywhere. I wanted it to exist on a much sort of deeper like our relationships with ourselves, who we think we are, and what is our identity and stuff like that.
‘So, I feel like I have a duty to a lot of people that got in touch to finish her story.’
Christie added that the idea of a ‘chores ledger’ – in which her character logged all the hours of unappreciated labour she had dedicated to her husband and children – especially resonated.
When Godliman wondered what her own ledger could include, Christie suggested: ‘You'd find that you had years and years that you'd spunked away doing things that not only nobody knew you were doing them, you didn't get thanked for them either.
There's nothing coming back for all that stuff that we've done.’
Her comments came last month, but were last night picked up by the British Comedy Guide.
She has been plotting how to revive The Change ever since announcing the series' cancellation in July. In an Instagram post at the times he wrote: ‘Even though it is the end of the road for Linda with Channel 4, it's not the end of the road for Linda with me, and I will do everything I can in order to finish her story properly. How and when remains to be seen, but watch this space.’
Also on the podcast she disclosed that she is in a WhatsApp group with fellow comedians Sarah Kendall, Jessica Fostekew and Josie Long in which they ‘send each other farts’.
‘That's the only comics' WhatsApp group that I've ever been a part of. There’s no chat. I think it started off as the female comics' walking group but we never went on a walk. We farted at each other.’
But she noted: ‘No one's sent a fart for a long time... It was a lot of fun for a while.’
