AUSTRALIA: The Escape Artist Starring David Tennant Comes To SBS In 2014

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTfp82WSwWAOxA3lguekevdf_oprlHpd0aax21VV6A5N8IQncUmhyphenhyphenqXbkaPHvWAKaA-DkQnJsh2t4AMZEAIUKSE7PoGI7YccCDZF6BHdLegJhb20fkSd6ex8BP7CxzTL8hk0vwnokXvSTA/s1600/TEA012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTfp82WSwWAOxA3lguekevdf_oprlHpd0aax21VV6A5N8IQncUmhyphenhyphenqXbkaPHvWAKaA-DkQnJsh2t4AMZEAIUKSE7PoGI7YccCDZF6BHdLegJhb20fkSd6ex8BP7CxzTL8hk0vwnokXvSTA/s640/TEA012.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Australian audiences will be able to enjoy <i>The Escape Artist</i> starring David Tennant in 2014. The three-part legal thriller written by David Wolstencroft has been snapped up by free-to-air broadcasters SBS.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peter Andrews, SBS Head of Network Programming said of the acquisition, "<i>The Escape Artist</i> has a fascinating premise with an exceptional cast and is a perfect fit for SBS, where we are committed to delivering the best international dramas to our audience. We look forward to introducing this gripping 3-part series to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> in 2014.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, home entertainments distributor Entertainment One Hopscotch has secured the Australian DVD and digital rights to the series. Their managing director Jude Troy said: "We are thrilled to add this pedigree show to our stable of high end TV shows. It's a brilliant drama with a stellar cast and the backing of one of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>'s best producers."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Escape Artist</i> stars David Tennant as Will Burton, a happily married and highly successful junior defence barrister who has never lost a case, hence the nickname, The Escape Artist. However,when he secures the release of the suspect in a brutal murder case his life changes in horrific ways that he can never have foreseen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Escape Artist was produced by Hilary Bevan Jones and Paul Frift of Red Arrow's Endor Productions for BBC One and directed by Broan Welsh. Other cast include Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo and Ashley Jensen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id195.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about the series on our website</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.4-traders.com/PROSIEBENSAT1-MEDIA-AG-13966934/news/ProSiebenSat1-Media-AG--Red-Arrow-Internationals-The-Escape-Artist-heads-to-Australia-17472206/">Source</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Australia David Tennant David Wolstencroft The Escape Artist TV Drama AUSTRALIA: The Escape Artist Starring David Tennant Comes To SBS In 2014

Australian audiences will be able to enjoy The Escape Artist starring David Tennant in 2014. The three-part legal thriller written by David Wolstencroft has been snapped up by free-to-air broadcasters SBS.Peter Andrews, SBS Head of Network Programmin…

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REVIEW: The Escape Artist Episode 2 - The View From The Other Side

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfTa7aF9XI4ze77XYwMnX0ecTeR9wJs9_96HOSE5-Kr364utITqxUWi5tAPllGsNJzXBFQGWfJtoLEqsqae7_SYcZMSOy6sGO6cSGuN_A8PBYUkHNEB0cP6ncxuJhYyhcQqaYaOGFHkdeW/s1600/TEA2-06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfTa7aF9XI4ze77XYwMnX0ecTeR9wJs9_96HOSE5-Kr364utITqxUWi5tAPllGsNJzXBFQGWfJtoLEqsqae7_SYcZMSOy6sGO6cSGuN_A8PBYUkHNEB0cP6ncxuJhYyhcQqaYaOGFHkdeW/s640/TEA2-06.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second episode of <i>The Escape Artist, </i>created by David Wolstencroft, opens with a devastated Will (David Tennant) left as the grieving single parent of a traumatised young boy following the horrific murder of wife Kate. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not only has Will’s domestic world been torn apart but so has his professional life. As the chief witness in the new murder case against Liam Foyle, played with skin-crawling stillness by Toby Kebbell, Will is effectively locked out of his chambers and is forced, not only to stand and watch the machinations of his profession, but also to reflect upon the motives and scruples of those involved. It’s a frustrating time for him, and is also frustrating for his colleagues who know full well that their finest legal mind is out of bounds. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1hotDhzKjJ-6KglrVLiRbfpeXVRjme73PaWx06i5KBfT8w4h4br16hUpAuGlosUwiYdRgpCH94W7bZurks5SUjLc3vLXrOMaZE7aKdaCHG0iHzSyMnRgiHGinSqSAEW_lblXvZo9ZCgD/s1600/TEA2-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1hotDhzKjJ-6KglrVLiRbfpeXVRjme73PaWx06i5KBfT8w4h4br16hUpAuGlosUwiYdRgpCH94W7bZurks5SUjLc3vLXrOMaZE7aKdaCHG0iHzSyMnRgiHGinSqSAEW_lblXvZo9ZCgD/s640/TEA2-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If I have to stay home one more day, I swear I’m going to kill somebody,” Will complains to QC Richard Mayfield (Anton Lesser) who is heading up the case against the killer. It’s this frustration that leads him to play a dangerous game, with the assistance of Danny Monk (Stephen Wight) to bring Mayfield’s second, Trevor Harris (Tony Gardner) up to speed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will has reason to fear the collapse of the case against Foyle. His main rival in chambers, Maggie Gardner (Sophie Okonedo), has been engaged to defend Foyle and she is hungry to prove herself as equal to, if not better than Will. Never mind that she knew the victim socially. She scans the murder scene images, shots that show Kate as a bloodied, staring corpse – in stark contrast to the happy, vibrant video clips that Will and Jamie watch curled on a bed together – and sees the case as just work, as something that will be good for her. The worst of it is that Will understands her hunger as, in her position, he would have done the same, indeed he <i>has </i>done so, already allowing the almost certainly guilty Foyle to walk free.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidJN7Oto7eO2lGaIen0NfD3WZFbgeUS2-XoKpBaAMmBJg5oytOelm0MvdBLvX3Ux1AeWsJaazKs3-gpDAfM_URrehJzmehnKVxUPo8EH6VBcDor20dJJGlA5ZkO9sN6WlCWGFOtsPt42G_/s1600/TEA2-05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidJN7Oto7eO2lGaIen0NfD3WZFbgeUS2-XoKpBaAMmBJg5oytOelm0MvdBLvX3Ux1AeWsJaazKs3-gpDAfM_URrehJzmehnKVxUPo8EH6VBcDor20dJJGlA5ZkO9sN6WlCWGFOtsPt42G_/s640/TEA2-05.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet even Maggie is not immune to the creepy Foyle, and is repulsed by his handshake upon his release. He clearly has little respect for her either, from the way she walks him through their plea to the way she takes her tea. Foyle's presence dominates the episode. He hunts Will’s son Jamie on the journey home from school and manipulates the vulnerable and compliant Eileen Morris (Monica Dolan) who nervously concedes to his demands. He is even a significant presence in a key scene where he does not actually appear as he apparently stalks Maggie to her stylish, large-windowed ground floor flat. Even the very idea of the unseen Foyle having access to that private world leaves both Maggie and the audience feeling shaken and vulnerable in true chiller fashion. Foyle seems almost invulnerable, as he now understands that evidence and even actual guilt are far less important in this legal game than the ability of the legal team to find the tricks, loopholes and cheats necessary to secure the win.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For Will, circumstances are spiralling out of control. Jamie cannot recognise the killer. He even fails to spot him next to him on the bus. He won’t talk about events of that night. Will is the sole witness and Maggie is happy to exploit other circumstances that might make his testimony doubtful. It seems as if Foyle again will walk away from another killing, and with what consequences for the <st1:city w:st="on">Burtons</st1:city>? Even when Jamie does finally talk and damning evidence is found at the cottage, Maggie is still nonplussed and eager to discredit her former adversary. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJNs87E_kIikrep3f_ZyCYNKKcXdST0WBEoWtKmRWAvgsnoG_E1h1X-QP3toqkjPboKRYWyctOu9jTDTa4KdV7B4w2IlUkU80zxpen4zf8eaKjJ5JW5U_I_2NtqxCPi80lLecao-GkgGd/s1600/TEA2-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJNs87E_kIikrep3f_ZyCYNKKcXdST0WBEoWtKmRWAvgsnoG_E1h1X-QP3toqkjPboKRYWyctOu9jTDTa4KdV7B4w2IlUkU80zxpen4zf8eaKjJ5JW5U_I_2NtqxCPi80lLecao-GkgGd/s640/TEA2-04.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But while Will tries to regain the upper hand against Foyle he also is responsible for protecting his son and trying to rebuild their shattered lives. There are poignant and emotional scenes between Will and Jamie, with young actor Gus Barry giving a mature performance that avoids being cloying or precocious. He is perfectly believable as a youngster trying to make sense of the terrible things that happen to good people. However, David Tennant nails the performance again, sweeping between raw grief and emotion – the moment when he discovers that he was to have become a father again is heartbreaking - through fear and frustration to steely determination. He battles to make his colleagues see the legal profession in the same way that he now sees it. It’s hard for him to view his world from the other side and to realise that although he can see exactly what Maggie Gardner is doing he is powerless to do anything about it. Is this, the one case that Will has emotional engagement with, to be the one time when The Escape Artist finds himself on the losing team?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Escape Artist concludes on Tuesday 12th November at 9pm on BBC One</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id195.html"><span style="color: blue;">Read more about the series here</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

BBC One David Tennant David Wolstencroft The Escape Artist TV Drama REVIEW: The Escape Artist Episode 2 - The View From The Other Side

The second episode of The Escape Artist, created by David Wolstencroft, opens with a devastated Will (David Tennant) left as the grieving single parent of a traumatised young boy following the horrific murder of wife Kate. Not only has Will’s domesti…

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The Escape Artist: Episode 2 Preview

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQWoNcrZlhCt6lKwtJTlqQ3bh99kzgvXdKdPsVGmYI0qFPM4jBjNFf5Ibs22apQvT3ke0cxtfX1ItT45hkyEXfVjGHbRhfVFUK3tTk7_E0RZNZFe6nVvDoFXWYdN1l8gY4CiNs3L8FtMV/s1600/HiRes6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQWoNcrZlhCt6lKwtJTlqQ3bh99kzgvXdKdPsVGmYI0qFPM4jBjNFf5Ibs22apQvT3ke0cxtfX1ItT45hkyEXfVjGHbRhfVFUK3tTk7_E0RZNZFe6nVvDoFXWYdN1l8gY4CiNs3L8FtMV/s640/HiRes6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Wolstencroft's chilling legal drama <i>The Escape Artist</i> continues next week on BBC One</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Summary</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Liam Foyle is back in the dock and Will Burton’s courtroom nemesis, Maggie Gardner, is leading his defence. After years in Will’s shadow, Maggie is out to prove a point and will stop at nothing to win.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With no meaningful physical evidence, Will’s chambers need all the help they can get to guarantee Foyle’s prosecution. But their most brilliant legal brain is unable to help, as Will is the key witness in the trial.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will must find a way to bolster the prosecution’s case without jeopardising the veracity of the trial, as Foyle continues to terrorise those close to Will.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant stars as will Burton with Sophie okonedo as Maggie Gardner and Toby Kebbell as Liam Foyle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch episode 2 of The Escape Artist on BBC One at 9pm on Tuesday 5th November</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id195.html"><span style="color: blue;">Read more about the drama on our website</span></a></span></div><b><br /></b><b><br /></b>

BBC One David Tennant David Wolstencroft The Escape Artist TV Drama The Escape Artist: Episode 2 Preview

David Wolstencroft's chilling legal drama The Escape Artist continues next week on BBC OneSummaryLiam Foyle is back in the dock and Will Burton’s courtroom nemesis, Maggie Gardner, is leading his defence. After years in Will’s shadow, Maggie is out t…

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David Tennant On BBC Breakfast Tomorrow Morning

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcD7MemJjdN62coZqCsWzcJaxcI5S75tuhpTbDjsC8Lg7Ssl9ftOyTyytVEDxs1gHLSYWLYK759NP9iwcT2X7txQ68XJW0Z-RvjHVYUtcJ7AUXtr_FB9DehBrLB_mj-9IehpmJSZIvaMP3/s1600/HiRes3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcD7MemJjdN62coZqCsWzcJaxcI5S75tuhpTbDjsC8Lg7Ssl9ftOyTyytVEDxs1gHLSYWLYK759NP9iwcT2X7txQ68XJW0Z-RvjHVYUtcJ7AUXtr_FB9DehBrLB_mj-9IehpmJSZIvaMP3/s640/HiRes3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant will be appearing live on BBC One's <i>Breakfast</i> tomorrow morning to talk about his new three-part drama series <i>The Escape Artist.</i> He will be joined by David Wolstencroft, the writer and creator of the series.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David will appear from 8.40am</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other guests on tomorrow's show include Ross Noble and Shane Filan</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Escape Artist</i> is an original three-part suspense thriller set in the world of criminal law. David Tennant plays Will Burton, a talented junior barrister who specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal corners, hence his nickname of “The Escape Artist”. Will is in high demand as he has never lost a case. But when his talents acquit the prime suspect in a horrific murder trial, that brilliance comes back to bite him with unexpected and chilling results. The series also stars Ashley Jensen, Sophie Okonedo and Toby Kebbell. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Escape Artist</i> begins on BBC One, Tuesday 29th October from 9pm GMT</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to Nadia Dahabiyeh of BBC Breakfast for the information</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

BBC Breakfast BBC One David Tennant David Wolstencroft The Escape Artist TV Drama David Tennant On BBC Breakfast Tomorrow Morning

David Tennant will be appearing live on BBC One's Breakfast tomorrow morning to talk about his new three-part drama series The Escape Artist. He will be joined by David Wolstencroft, the writer and creator of the series.David will appear from 8.40amO…

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Digital Spy: The Escape Artist Is Must-See TV

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDkW8L0VncA-DVDoVVIjMIalrY5ntmguIPVoV1Ri-UpFv6VlbGEfhAPf6NE1GgumXI6RZSTne6-3ydDkuSJrYwUnvfIzkFzfNdjOq9_L8hoLiuYnPJ0ObGNGUcJHKwfA2JnL6U35oP_oM1/s1600/Escape08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDkW8L0VncA-DVDoVVIjMIalrY5ntmguIPVoV1Ri-UpFv6VlbGEfhAPf6NE1GgumXI6RZSTne6-3ydDkuSJrYwUnvfIzkFzfNdjOq9_L8hoLiuYnPJ0ObGNGUcJHKwfA2JnL6U35oP_oM1/s640/Escape08.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Digital Spy have made the new BBC One drama <i>The Escape Artist</i> one of the five shows you should not miss next week. The three part series starring David Tennant begins on Tuesday 29th October at 9pm. They say:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Escape Artist: Tuesday (October 29) at 9pm on BBC One</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ever-excellent David Tennant learns the perils of being perfect in new BBC thriller The Escape Artist - or at least his character, hotshot defence lawyer Will Burton does.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Burton's managed to build a perfect life with his perfect family thanks to him never losing a case, but all that is turned upside down when his latest victory results in serial killer Liam Foyle being let loose on the streets - and he's not interested in parting ways just because the trial is over. No matter whether the action's taking place in a stuffy courtroom or the creepy corridors of a pitch black haunted house, The Escape Artist will have you gripped.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s62/vampire-diaries/tubetalk/a526571/this-weeks-must-see-tv-5-shows-you-shouldnt-miss.html"><span style="color: blue;">Click here</span></a> to watch the trailer and find out their other choices</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Escape Artist</i> is a gripping new legal thriller from David Wolstencroft, the creator of <i>Spooks</i>. David Tennant stars as Will Burton with Ashley Jensen, Sophie Okonedo and Toby Kebbell. <a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id195.html">Find out more on our website</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--></div>

BBC One David Tennant David Wolstencroft The Escape Artist TV Drama Digital Spy: The Escape Artist Is Must-See TV

Digital Spy have made the new BBC One drama The Escape Artist one of the five shows you should not miss next week. The three part series starring David Tennant begins on Tuesday 29th October at 9pm. They say:The Escape Artist: Tuesday (October 29) at…

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David Wolstencroft On The Escape Artist: "David Tennant Inhabits The Part Completely"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6LOWRHjWwGq6_6h-r9P-ecqkKN7jaUHG1xHJhUX0Iw6YNrqWHpEtWEqYEBvOZtbstDFIlu0JVS9Xg4fb9AhRWk9TlMgcxZMBDHlD8f-gSOG4Lc3DJhs7qHQ_OfFD1buVIGE-wYglZKU8/s1600/thees5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6LOWRHjWwGq6_6h-r9P-ecqkKN7jaUHG1xHJhUX0Iw6YNrqWHpEtWEqYEBvOZtbstDFIlu0JVS9Xg4fb9AhRWk9TlMgcxZMBDHlD8f-gSOG4Lc3DJhs7qHQ_OfFD1buVIGE-wYglZKU8/s640/thees5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Escape Artists writer David Wolstencroft talks about the new BBC One drama:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why did you choose ‘The Escape Artist’ as the title?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Titles just materialise. When I created Spooks, that title was literally the first thing I wrote, at the top of the notepad. It was exactly the same with The Escape Artist. I knew I wanted to write a legal drama that had aspects of a Hitchcockian thriller to it. Something that didn’t go the usual way these types of stories can go, I wanted to give it an air of mystery and menace.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you tell us what makes this crime drama different?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s a tendency with legal stories to get caught up in the intellectual side of things rather than the emotional underbelly. I wanted to do something that from the gut rather than something that was about the ins and outs of the law, although this does of course involve that but I tried to frame it in a different way.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you tell us about the character of Will?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will is the master of the machine that is the legal system. I wanted to write a story about someone who gets out of that machine and is promptly run over by it. I’ve had personal experiences with legal process both here and in America, and all of those experiences have resulted in me thinking deep, raw, primal thoughts. You’re dealing with these spectacularly complex legal concepts, having these meetings that are full of legal gibberish, and yet the overall feeling for me was one of boiling fury. I was like a caged animal, and so I wanted to put that into this story of a criminal barrister.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How important are Will’s family to his journey?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our private life often tells a more truthful story about ourselves that the one we project professionally. Will’s world - his marriage, his relationship with his son, is paramount in this story. It helps us identify with him. I don’t imagine I could be a lawyer or do what Will does, but he’s committed to his family, and that’s something I relate to very much. I think that creates a powerful emotional connection.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you have casting in mind when writing?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I rarely have anyone in mind when I write because I think that sometimes limits the character. In any case the right actor will also bring their own stuff to it. I have been very lucky in that David Tennant does just inhabit the part completely.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ashley and David had worked together before, that must have helped in terms of casting?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was so excited when we were talking about Ashley joining the cast as I’ve long admired her work in Ugly Betty and in Extras. I knew that working with them both was going to be a lot of fun because they’ve got a short hand together.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Could you tell us a bit about the part of Maggie played by Sophie Okonedo?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think Will, Maggie and Foyle all share an element of the psychopath about them. What I love about Maggie and what Sophie has done with the character is she gives the impression that she would truly stop at nothing in order to succeed - but she never does go that far, she’s a brilliant lawyer.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did you feel about Toby Kebbell being cast as Foyle?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was blown away by what Toby did. He was like a de-tuned television walking around the set. Deeply unsettling. The scenes between Foyle and Eileen especially. Those scenes really are messed up. When I wrote them I had an image in my mind on just how dark it would be but they went completely into the basement.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was the character of Foyle based on any real-life criminals?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, but I think he evolved out of the need for him to be in the script. In as much as I wanted him to be as engaging a nemesis as possible. He needed to be intelligent and manipulative a classic villain. I also wanted him to have an emotional response, he stays very much true to what he believes in, even as a psychopath he goes into very dark hellish places but he still stands up for what he believes in, in a horrible way. He’s a man of honour, perversely, but the wires are all jumbled.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did you put the twists and turns of the story together?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did what I always do – I wrote myself into a corner and waited to see what happened. Will helped me get there, by that stage I knew him and although it sounds weird he sort of helped me do that.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are there hints that Foyle and Will could have swapped places?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are a lot of mirror scenes in the script to make that point. Brian (Welsh) does a great job in showing it using reflections in people’s glasses, mirrors on walls etc. That’s part of what I think the ambition has always been, to show reflections between the characters, showing their similarities. There are a lot of ways to approach the show that aren’t just about who done it and how.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why did you choose television rather than film to tell the story?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.22; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -2px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m a TV addict. I grew up with the big event series like Cracker, House Of Cards, Edge Of Darkness. And the bar keeps being raised, which speaking personally as a writer I respond to very much. Look at something like Sherlock, and the way they tell stories on that show. I think television does allow you to inhabit a world in a way film doesn’t. I also wanted this to return. The BBC have been really supportive in that regard, they really got it from the beginning and we all wanted to make the same thing so it seemed like a perfect fit.</span></div>

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The Escape Artists writer David Wolstencroft talks about the new BBC One drama:Why did you choose ‘The Escape Artist’ as the title?Titles just materialise. When I created Spooks, that title was literally the first thing I wrote, at the top of the not…

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