Gemma Arterton arrives at the Electric Cinema in Notting Hill, west London, for a screening of Funny Woman, the Sky TV show.

The series is based on the 2014 novel Funny Girl, by Nick Hornby, who had his heyday in the 1990s with Fever Pitch and High Fidelity. 

Arterton plays a 1960s beauty queen from Blackpool who works in a factory making sticks of rock.

But she has dreams of being an actress and moves to Swinging London, where she takes the name Sophie Straw and begins to make her way in showbusiness.