Episode #1.1
- Episode aired Dec 16, 2022
- 47m
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7.6/10
173
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Detectives are summoned to a hospital to interview an ex-Russian spy who claims to have been poisonedDetectives are summoned to a hospital to interview an ex-Russian spy who claims to have been poisonedDetectives are summoned to a hospital to interview an ex-Russian spy who claims to have been poisoned
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Dan Renton Skinner
- James Cairns
- (as Dan Skinner)
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- TriviaThe entrance points for the real AWE premises have much more sophisticated security arrangements than those portrayed in the programme.
- Quotes
[Litvinenko has just died in hospital. He had written a statement blaming President Putin for authorising his poisoning. It is read out by Alexander Goldfarb to journalists.]
Alexander Goldfarb: "You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world, Mr. Putin, will reverberate in your ears for the rest of your life."
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An impressive drama, amazing from Tennant again.
Alexander Litvinenko details to DI Hyatt and DS Dawson how he's been poisoned, and the details surrounding why he's been poisoned.
I was keen to see how this was going to differ from The BBC's adaptation of The Salisbury Poisonings, a different, but very similar story, from the off it is very much the story from Litvinenko's point of view.
As ITV have done with several real life crime dramas of late, it feels very respectful, very factual, I understand that it had a graphic at the beginning saying that several scenes had been dramatised,
It's staggering to see just how much Tennant looks like Litvinenko, those haunting images of him wrapped in a blanket, in that hospital bed, chilling.
Quality acting from Neil Maskell and co, but once again it's another masterclass from David Tennant, The Doctor Who star is simply phenomenal, there aren't enough plaudits to apply to him, his acting is just captivating.
8/10.
I was keen to see how this was going to differ from The BBC's adaptation of The Salisbury Poisonings, a different, but very similar story, from the off it is very much the story from Litvinenko's point of view.
As ITV have done with several real life crime dramas of late, it feels very respectful, very factual, I understand that it had a graphic at the beginning saying that several scenes had been dramatised,
It's staggering to see just how much Tennant looks like Litvinenko, those haunting images of him wrapped in a blanket, in that hospital bed, chilling.
Quality acting from Neil Maskell and co, but once again it's another masterclass from David Tennant, The Doctor Who star is simply phenomenal, there aren't enough plaudits to apply to him, his acting is just captivating.
8/10.
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