Casualty's Sarah Manners signs up for The Bill

Casualty's Sarah Manners signs up for The Bill
Casualty's Sarah Manners signs up for The Bill (Image credit: UK Press/Press Association Image)

Casualty and Strictly Come Dancing star Sarah Manners is set to return to TV with a new role as Pc Kirsty Knight in The Bill. The actress – who played Bex Reynolds in Casualty – will make her debut on the show in February 2010. Sarah said: "I'm over the moon to be joining The Bill, especially at this exciting time for the show. "Thanks to a friend who is a Sergeant in the Metropolitan Police, I have been lucky enough to spend time shadowing Pc's out and about around London as research for my new role.” She added: "I can’t wait to get behind the wheel and join the team at Sun Hill." The Bill producer Tim Key explained: "Sarah’s a great actor and we’re delighted that she’s joining the show. She arrives at a particularly exciting time for the uniform officers of Sun Hill, who are about to be tested to the limit. "Kirsty Knight is a lively addition to the team, with an irreverent sense of humour and a love of the adrenaline-fuelled side of the job. "But she's going to be flung in at the deep end and will quickly learn that life at Sun Hill is full of surprises, challenges and tough decisions."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.