The Interceptor

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GenreDrama
Created byTony Saint
Written byTony Saint
StarringO. T. Fagbenle
Ewan Stewart
Lorraine Ashbourne
Jo Joyner
Robert Lonsdale
Anna Skellern
Jeany Spark
Trevor Eve
Gary Beadle
ComposerTemplate:Pluralize from textPaul Thomson
Template:Pluralize from text of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from textEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from textSarah Brown
Tony Saint
ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from textPatrick Schweitzer
CinematographySam McCurdy
Running time60 minutes
Production Template:Pluralize from textBBC Drama Productions
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The Interceptor is a British drama television miniseries broadcast on BBC One from 10 June to 29 July 2015. The eight-part serial, written by Tony Saint and produced by BBC Drama Productions,[1][2] was cancelled after one series. According to Fagbenle, the cancellation was a result of station management change.[3]

The series follows a new law enforcement team tasked with hunting down some of Britain's most wanted criminals.[4] The series is inspired by the book of the same name which details the career of former customs agent Cameron Addicott, co-written by Kris Hollington.[5][6][7]

Synopsis

Special Agent Marcus "Ash" Ashton (Fagbenle), a HM Revenue and Customs agent and his partner Tommy (Lonsdale) capture a drugs shipper in an operation at London Waterloo station. Whilst his boss is happy with a conviction of 3 kg of cocaine, Ash wants a larger criminal. During the subsequent operation, Tommy is severely injured in a resultant car accident, and Ash is then suspended. Subsequently, approached in a pub by Cartwright (Stewart), the head of top-secret UNIT (Undercover Narcotics Investigation Team), on first entering UNIT's HQ he meets a familiar face, his Customs training officer Valerie (Ashbourne).[8]

Cast

  • O. T. Fagbenle as Special Agent Marcus "Ash" Ashton, a UK Customs agent
  • Jo Joyner as Lorna Ashton, Ash's wife
  • Robert Lonsdale as Tommy, Ash's UK Customs partner and friend
  • Ewan Stewart as Jack Cartwright, Head of the UNIT team
  • Lorraine Ashbourne as Valerie, ex-UK Customs, a member of the UNIT team
  • Anna Skellern as Kim, ex-Met Police Flying Squad, a member of the UNIT team
  • Charlie De Melo as Martin, ex-MI6, a member of the UNIT team
  • Valeria Vereau as Sonia the Spanish Interpreter
  • Jeany Spark as Detective Inspector Gemmill of the Metropolitan Police, Ash's friend
  • Trevor Eve as Roach, owner of a legitimate scaffolding business and a noted pillar of society. Head of a criminal organisation that distributes and sells drugs
  • Gary Beadle as Docker, apparent owner of an electrical contracting business, and a criminal. Roach's right-hand man
  • Lee Boardman as Michael "Xavier" Duffy, the apparent owner of a dry cleaning shop, and a criminal. Manages the street-based drugs distribution chain
  • Neal Barry as "Smoke", a criminal and an informant source for Ash
  • Paul Kaye as James Gordon "Jago" Dalkin, a criminal and enforcer
  • Michael Lindall as Wark, a criminal
  • Simon Armstrong as Chief Inspector Stannard. Gemmill's boss, and Cartwright's former colleague/now foe
  • Dexter Fletcher as "Scooter", a pill producer and dealer
  • Ralph Ineson as "Yorkie", a Leeds born and bred former criminal, having retired from armed robbery
  • Ralf Little as Alex, Ash's former school boy best friend, now a minor career criminal
  • Jack Roth as Casby, a criminal turned violent enforcer
  • Dean Roberts as Ash's dad

Production

The Interceptor was commissioned by Ben Stephenson and Danny Cohen.[9] The executive producer is Sarah Brown and the producer is Patrick Schweitzer.[10] Filming began in London in March 2014,[11][10] with David Gyasi cast in the lead role, but he left the production after injuring his leg.[12][13] With OT Fagbenie recast in the lead role, filming re-commenced in April 2014.[12] Part of the filming took place in Gravesend, at Nell's Cafe, which doubled for a cafe called 'Planet Thanet'.[14][15] with the UNIT base scenes filmed on location in Keybridge House, a decommissioned British Telecom building in Vauxhall. The Interceptor was the first BBC production which purposefully used only electric powered cars behind the camera, using a fleet of five leased Vauxhall Ampera's.[16]

Background

Cameron Addicott is a retired UK customs officer/SOCA agent. Addicott had joined the Alpha Projects Unit, a group of dedicated undercover Customs officers who hunted the UK's most dangerous criminals. Using telephone and electronically tapped data feeds, the Alpha team would then use the resulting intelligence to prevent serious criminals from committing crime, including prevention of murders, stopping large shipments of drugs and other organised crime. After retiring in 2008, Addicott began writing his memoirs, with the first part co-written by Kris Hollington and published by Penguin Books in 2010, titled The Interceptor.[5]

Reception

The series received a universally negative response from critics. It was given 1/5 stars by Michael Hogan who, writing in The Telegraph, said "Fagbenle tried his best to inject some life into the limp script – huffing, puffing, pouting and glowering – but he’s too good for this hokum".[17] Adam Postans writing for the Daily Mirror who wrote "This attempt at a gritty crime drama... is a clichéd mess with appalling dialogue," [18] and Sally Newell writing for The Independent wrote that the "watchable but predictable prime-time cop drama" was like "EastEnders on an adrenalin rush, but this contrived cop show lacks heart."[19]

Broadcast

The series premiered in Australia on 12 August 2015 on BBC First.[20]

Episodes

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References

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  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Munn, Patrick (11 February 2013). "It's Official: BBC One Orders 8 Part Drama Series 'The Interceptor' From 'Strike Back' Showrunner Tony Saint". TV Wise. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
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  12. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eames, Tom (31 March 2014). "David Gyasi exits BBC One's The Interceptor due to injury". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
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