WHAT’S ON TV

Drama about workplace bullying set in the world of sales by Mike Bartlett.

WHAT IS IT?

Thomas Benson (Ken Nwosu)is a Sales Associate at Clayton Office Solutions in Reading, where he lives with his wife Jess (Alexandra Roach), a nurse, and their young daughter, Millie, who was born deaf. He’s good at his job and feels respected by

WHAT’S THE STORY?

his colleagues Andy, Isobel and Becky, and his boss Chris Carter (Ben Miller). Thomas and the team give a pitch presentation but when the presentation goes badly wrong, Thomas panics and faints in front of everyone. The team has lost a potentially large contract and with it the lucrative bonuses that would have been coming their way. The team seem to lay the blame firmly at Thomas’s door. Is it his imagination, or are his colleagues now out to get him? How will he react?

“I saw the play Bull by Mike (Bartlett). The play was only 55 minutes long, which took me by surprise, but if it was any longer it would have been too much. I think we’ve all experienced bullying in some form and it was just being confronted by it in a very full on way. I have a deep dislike for bullying. I remember watching the play and just wanting to get revenge for the main character, who I’m now playing. It was the intensity of what was going on in the piece and then having it brought to me as a three-part drama, fleshed out even more, I thought it was an incredible achievement.”

“It’s a thriller. It really was a complete page-turner as a script and I think as a show it is like that, too. It feels like the stakes just get higher and higher and higher. Because the things they do to Thomas get more and more serious. They really start to get in to his head. I felt it has a feel of a thriller really. That something or someone is going to snap.”

BEN MILLERS SAYS:

Ken Nwosu as Thomas.