Tales of Manchester noir, Hackney gangs and Russian love should light up our screens in 2012
Tom Green
Tom Green is on a mission to change the face of British TV drama. If the claim seems inflated, just look what the 32-year-old from Cambridge pulled off on his first directorial assignment two years ago. Green was just six weeks out of film school when he was asked to launch a supernatural comedy-drama series for E4. He directed three episodes of Misfits in its first season and three more in its second, by which time the series had won a Bafta and was averaging nearly 1.5 million viewers per episode.
Now, Green is taking charge of a new BBC1 five-part drama called The Fuse, due to air in May. It stars Christopher Eccleston as a corrupt Manchester politician given a chance to right the wrongs in his past, even as he tries to evade a murder charge.
Tom Green
Tom Green is on a mission to change the face of British TV drama. If the claim seems inflated, just look what the 32-year-old from Cambridge pulled off on his first directorial assignment two years ago. Green was just six weeks out of film school when he was asked to launch a supernatural comedy-drama series for E4. He directed three episodes of Misfits in its first season and three more in its second, by which time the series had won a Bafta and was averaging nearly 1.5 million viewers per episode.
Now, Green is taking charge of a new BBC1 five-part drama called The Fuse, due to air in May. It stars Christopher Eccleston as a corrupt Manchester politician given a chance to right the wrongs in his past, even as he tries to evade a murder charge.
- 1/1/2012
- by Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, Killian Fox
- The Guardian - Film News
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