BBC One’s miniseries on the nerve agent attack on former double agent spy Sergei Skripal has become the highest-rated new drama launch of the year in the UK. Produced by Fremantle-backed Danc…
The Salisbury Poisonings
— which is yet to find a home in the U.S. — was the most-watched show of the day and was more than 3M viewers ahead of what a show would usually expect to achieve in the Sunday 9PM slot on BBC One. The three-part series follows the fallout from the nerve agent attack in Salisbury from the perspective of local heroes, who managed and were victims of the poisoning, which became a story of international significance.
It was written by former BBC journalists Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, who spent a year in Salisbury exhaustively researching their script through extensive interviews with those involved in the incident. Anne-Marie Duff, MyAnna Buring and Rafe Spall are among the cast.
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