Red Arrow International will showcase the new BBC One drama The Escape Artist starring David
Tennant at MIPCOM in Cannes
from today until Thursday 10th October.
The worldwide TV sales and distribution company will be
presenting the thriller for sale to international broadcasters as one of their
fiction highlights, increasing the likelihood of it being shown in other
countries.
MIPCOM (7-10 October) is the year’s most anticipated global
market for entertainment content across all platforms. Each autumn, the
industry’s leaders converge in Cannes for
four days of meetings, screenings and conferences and to strike programme
deals.
The drama’s writer David Wolstencroft yesterday tweeted this
image of one of the promotional banners for the series:
The Escape Artist
A thriller set in the legal world that is as much about
primal feelings as it is about the twists and turns of the case. In The Escape Artist, the law is not just
an intellectual exercise. Scratch under the surface and it is all blood and
guts.
David Tennant stars as Will Burton, a criminal defense
lawyer who specializes in getting people out of tight legal corners... hence,
his nickname “The Escape Artist”. Will is in high demand as he has never lost a
case. With a loving young family and promotion to the Queen’s Counsel in his
future, everything is on the up-and-up.
Will’s next case sees him defending a man named Liam Foyle,
who has been charged with the horrific murder of a young woman. The evidence
against Foyle is overwhelming, but Will, being who he is, gets the man off on a
technicality. It is almost like he cannot help but be brilliant. For the first
time in his career, Will questions the morality of what he does and fails to
shake Foyle’s hand at the end of the trial.
Foyle is released. He is a serial killer. His next victim is
only a matter of time. And now, his attentions have turned toward Will. Will’s
brilliance comes back to bite him with unexpected and chilling results. Not to
mention a shocking twist in the tale.
Credits:
Directed by Brian Welsh
Created and written by David Wolstencroft
Starring David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo, Ashley Jensen
Produced by Hilary Bevan Jones and Paul Frift for Endor Productions for BBC One in association with Red Arrow International.
The drama is expected to begin on BBC One later this month
Created and written by David Wolstencroft
Starring David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo, Ashley Jensen
Produced by Hilary Bevan Jones and Paul Frift for Endor Productions for BBC One in association with Red Arrow International.
The drama is expected to begin on BBC One later this month
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