The State Within
Appearance
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Genre | Political thriller |
Created by | Lizzie Mickery Daniel Percival |
Directed by | Michael Offer Daniel Percival |
Starring | |
Music by | Jennie Muskett |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Kathryn Mitchell Jessica Pope |
Producers | Grainne Marmion Patrick Cassavetti |
Cinematography | David Perrault |
Editors | Nick McPhee David Head |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | BBC Films |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One BBC America |
Release | 2 November 7 December 2006 | –
The State Within is a six-partBritish Ambassador to Washington, who is caught in the centre of a political conspiracy threatening to depose Western governments. As such, he must prevent a war, all whilst facing his own personal dilemmas.
On 22 January 2007, the series was released on DVD in the
Presidents Day weekend as a three-part miniseries, concluding on 24 February 2007. After being repeated on BBC Four in June 2007 as part of the channel's Conspiracy U.S.A. week of programming,[4] the series subsequently released on Netflix worldwide, where it was edited down into seven 50-minute episodes.[5] The series was subsequently nominated for two Golden Globe Awards
in the categories Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television and Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film.
Plot
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former Soviet republic of Tyrgyzstan (cf. Kyrgyzstan). This character resembles Craig Murray, the British ambassador who exposed British and American complicity in torture and human rights abuses in Uzbekistan.[6]
Cast
Main cast
- Washington
- Ben Daniels as Nicholas Brocklehurst; an MI6 agent and Counsellor for External Affairs
- Eva Birthistle as Jane Lavery; employee of the Human Rights Commission
- Neil Pearson as Phil Lonsdale; Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy
- Genevieve O'Reilly as Caroline Hanley; daughter of the plane victim
- Sharon Gless as Lynne Warner; American Secretary of Defence
- Noam Jenkins as Christopher Styles; Head of Defence Intelligence
- Ted Whittall as Gordon Adair; CEO of the Armitage Corporation
- Christopher Bolton as Vinny Swain
- Nigel Bennett as Colonel Charles Macintyre; president of CMC Secure Operations
- Marnie McPhail as George Blake
- Alex Jennings as James Sinclair; ex-British Ambassador to Tyrgyzan
- Aaron Abrams as Matthew Weiss
- Lennie James as Luke Gardner; an ex-British paratrooper currently on Death Row for murder
Supporting cast
- Emma Campbell as Sally Davis
- Rahnuma Panthaky as Nasreen Qureshi
- Briony Glassco as Jennifer Grimes
- Louca Tassone as Azzam Sinclair
- Roman Podhora as Vernon Burchill
- Michael Rhoades as Gary Pritchard
- Ron Lea as Carl Garcia
- Patrick Garrow as Brad Godovsky
- David Eisner as Sam Levinson
Episodes
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Episode 1" | Michael Offer | Lizzie Mickery & Daniel Percival | 2 November 2006 | 5.21 |
2 | "Episode 2" | Michael Offer | Lizzie Mickery & Daniel Percival | 9 November 2006 | N/A |
3 | "Episode 3" | Michael Offer | Lizzie Mickery & Daniel Percival | 16 November 2006 | N/A |
4 | "Episode 4" | Daniel Percival | Lizzie Mickery & Daniel Percival | 23 November 2006 | N/A |
5 | "Episode 5" | Daniel Percival | Lizzie Mickery & Daniel Percival | 30 November 2006 | N/A |
6 | "Episode 6" | Daniel Percival | Lizzie Mickery & Daniel Percival | 7 December 2006 | N/A |
References
- ^ "The State Within Episode Guide". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ "Release details for The State Within". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^ "The State Within DVD Review". DVDTalk. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ "The State Within - Episodes". BBC.
- ^ "The State Within". Netflix. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ Paton Walsh, Nick (15 July 2004). "The Envoy who said too much". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2008.
External links
- The State Within at BBC Online
- The State Within at IMDb