Inside Man
Monday & Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1 Drama
The lives of Harry (David Tennant), an English vicar, a US death-row prisoner and criminologist (Stanley Tucci), and a maths tutor collide in the most unexpected way in BBC1’S quirky new four-part thriller. Created by Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat, it also stars It’s a Sin’s Lydia West as a journalist and Dracula’s Dolly Wells, and centres on the chilling premise that everyone’s a murderer – you just need a good reason and a bad day.
David Tennant returns to our screens this week as a quintessential English vicar, Harry, who seems to lead the perfect life with his wife and teenage son, in BBC1’S four-part drama Inside Man. However, his path unexpectedly crosses with US death-row prisoner Jefferson Grieff (Stanley Tucci) and a maths tutor who somehow ends up trapped in a cellar following a sinister turn of events…
‘The series is very hard to sum up, because there are two separate worlds going on side by side,’ says David. ‘Part of the joy of watching the show is wondering if these worlds are ever going to collide!
‘But from my character’s point of view, it’s a story about a man who, while in pursuit of doing the right thing, makes a series of catastrophically bad decisions. Quite early on in our story, something pretty awful occurs, meaning the family dynamic can never be the same again!’
Darkly comic
The series has been penned by Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Steven Moffat and also features Dolly Wells (Dracula) and It’s a
Sin’s break-out star Lydia West as Beth Davenport, an investigative journalist who travels to America to interview criminologist-turnedwife-killer Jefferson Grieff. ‘Steven described it as a sitcom that goes terribly wrong,’ says David. ‘When I read the script, I wanted to be part of it. It’s hugely intriguing – the almost breathtaking awfulness of what occurs, the incremental steps to doom that Harry takes, and the unravelling of normality!’