Merrick here...


More tidbits have emerged about the BBC's new WALLACE AND GROMIT special, entitled A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH (which you can pretty much gather from this article's headline). By the way, this project was previously titled TROUBLE AT MILL.

Seems CORONATION STREET's Sally Lindsay will voice Wallace's love interest in LOAF - a character named Piella Bakewell.

There's evidently a new press release about how Lindsay's casting came about, but I've been unable to track it down.

However, Empire Online cites portions of said release, which I'll duplicate here with full credit to Empire & their article on the matter, which can be found HERE.

The release, via Empire, also reveals the plot of LOAF:

"Wallace and Gromit have a brand new bakery business, ‘Top Bun’. Their whole house has been converted into a granary with a ‘Wallace patent-pending’ old-fashioned windmill on the roof. Although business is booming, Gromit finds himself having to run
the whole operation single-handedly as Wallace is ‘dough-eyed’ in love with the beautiful Piella Bakewell, former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials.

But Gromit is not so enamored of Piella - her ‘woman’s touch’ at 62 West Wallaby Street puts the dog’s nose out of joint. What’s more, a dozen local bakers have disappeared in recent months and Gromit is worried that Wallace may be next. Gromit turns sleuth and the duo soon find themselves drawn into a sinister murder mystery - it’s ‘A Matter Of Loaf And Death’."

No word on when A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH will be coming to The States, but it's a safe bet it'll do so soon after it airs on BBC (which I understand should happen later this year).