{"id":402692,"date":"2026-02-01T18:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402692\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:33:15","slug":"janey-godleys-daughter-says-mum-would-be-fuming-not-to-play-character-inspired-by-her-in-bbc-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402692\/","title":{"rendered":"Janey Godley\u2019s daughter says mum would be fuming not to play character inspired by her in BBC show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comedian Ashley Storrie is the co-creator and writer behind the BAFTA and RTS award-winning drama which returns to TV screens for a second series this week.\"dailyrecord\"<\/p>\n

04:30, 01 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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Ashley Storrie photo by steve ullathorne<\/p>\n

Janey Godley\u2019s daughter<\/a> has revealed her mum would be fuming not to get to play a character inspired by her in hit BBC<\/a> show Dinosaur.<\/p>\n

Comedian Ashley Storrie<\/a> is the co-creator and writer behind the Scottish BAFTA Award<\/a> and RTS award-winning drama which returns to TV screens for a second series this week.<\/p>\n

Eagle-eyed fans will be able to spot tributes to Ashley\u2019s stand-up comic mum Janey, who became a household name after her voiceovers to Nicola Sturgeon\u2019s Covid briefings and died of ovarian cancer in 2024 at 63.<\/p>\n

Storrie, 39, said her mum would have been delighted with the new series\u2019 character named after her \u2013 but raging not to get in on the act.<\/p>\n

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Janey Godleyand her daughter Ashley Storrie. <\/p>\n

She added: \u201cI\u2019m really happy we are back for season two as since I was a child it\u2019s been my dream to do two series of a sitcom because two series is a classic British form like Dinnerladies, Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cNina\u2019s now got choices to make and every autistic person knows we hate making decisions so it\u2019s tough for her but you laugh and cry with her.<\/p>\n

\u201cAhead of filming, the cast had to send in baby pictures and, when I got on set, there was a picture of mum on the wall in the MacArthurs\u2019 house. So, she\u2019s with us, which is nice.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mum would be happy a character was named after her but, if she was about, she\u2019d be fuming I never asked her to play it. She\u2019d be proud but trying to make it about her.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mum passed away weeks before we went to the Scottish BAFTAs and the funny thing was, my mum predicted it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an audio clip of us talking and she said \u2018I\u2019m going to wait for something big to happen and I\u2019m going to steal all the attention\u2019 \u2013 and she did as she had impeccable timing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The BAFTA and RTS award-winning drama which returns to TV screens for a second series this week.(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n

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Greg had came to Ashleys school and called her funny, which she was completely overjoyed with(Image: BBC)<\/p>\n

Dinosaur stars palaeontologist Nina \u2013 an autistic woman played by Ashley. Now exhausted and missing home she returns to Glasgow where she discovers everything has changed.<\/p>\n

Ashley said filming for the show which has won the hearts of fans across the globe has allowed her to showcase the beauty of Glasgow.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cGlasgow is one of the best places in the world. This is where you can find out someone\u2019s entire medical history in 15 minutes on a bus, that\u2019s the magic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited Dinosaur has a huge audience. We\u2019re showing in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It\u2019s even been dubbed in Spanish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Series two of Dinosaur, arrives on BBC Scotland and BBC iPlayer on Thursday and will broadcast on BBC Three from Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedian Ashley Storrie is the co-creator and writer behind the BAFTA and RTS award-winning drama which returns to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[8988,243,2973,96,679,29400,8934,150402,6929,75120,46693,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-402692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-autism","tag-bbc","tag-comedy","tag-entertainment","tag-glasgow","tag-nicola-sturgeon","tag-premium","tag-rts","tag-sunday-mail","tag-sunday-mail-news","tag-the-baftas","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}