Harriet Walter is Margaret Thatcher in upcoming Channel 4 two-parter Brian and Maggie.
Trailer will be considered above of the buzzy sequence from James Graham and Stephen Frears.
Starring the Succession alum reverse Steve Coogan, Brian and Maggie (beforehand Brian and Margaret) tells the story of when interviewer Brian Walden and the Iron Girl got here collectively for her final ever TV interview. Little did they know they had been about to embark on one of the crucial well-known political exchanges of all time. The 45-minute showdown turned a nationwide speaking level and helped set in practice a sequence of occasions that ended with Thatcher’s resignation.
With shades of Frost/Nixon, the present will launch quickly and comes from Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions. It was the primary drama commissioned by Ollie Madden, Channel 4’s new head of drama and movie.
The sequence will “ask whether or not the sluggish dying of full-length political TV interviews places fashionable democracy in danger,” in response to Channel 4. In an identical vein to Netflix’s Scoop concerning the infamous Prince Andrew interview, it’s primarily based on two chapters from a guide – Why Is This Mendacity Bastard Mendacity to Me by ex-BBC producer Rob Burley.
Brian and Maggie is a 2×60” drama from Child Cow one in all BBC Studios’ owned manufacturing labels, and has been commissioned for Channel 4 by Madden, Director of Movie 4 and Head of Channel 4 Drama alongside Danyele Seignoret, Drama Improvement Govt. Govt producers are Sarah Monteith (The Ballad of Wallis Island, Altering Ends, Chivalry), Delyth Scudamore (Poisonous City, A Very British Scandal), Rupert Majendie (The Ballad of Wallis Island, Brian and Charles). Dan Winch (Black Mirror, Quiz, A Very English Scandal) is the producer. BBC Studios is the worldwide distributor of the sequence.
