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Airdate: Roadkill

New British political thriller starring Hugh Laurie & Helen McCrory is coming to ABC.

Hugh Laurie stars in a new British political thriller Roadkill coming to ABC.

Written by David Hare (Collateral) the four-part series sees Laurie as a self-made, forceful and charismatic politician, Peter Laurence.

Peter’s public and private life seems to be falling apart – or rather is being picked apart by his enemies. With his enemies so close to home, can Peter Laurence ever out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?

Other cast includes Helen McCrory, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Saskia Reeves, Sarah Greene, Patricia Hodge, Ophelia Lovibond Iain De Caestecker and UK-Australian actress Shalom Brune-Franklin.

David Hare said, “In Roadkill, I wanted to ask what happens when you put ideals of freedom and personal responsibility above all other virtues. I was also interested in the effect of believing that every one of us is alone responsible for the destiny and progress of our own lives. But to inquire into these questions, it was essential to me to invent. I wanted to imagine what it would be like if a Conservative politician, naturally gifted with a mix of charm, intelligence, charisma and high humour, managed to find his path from a working-class household in Croydon right into the heart of Westminster.

“So much television drama is now based on documentary events that it is hard to remember the primary trigger for fiction is meant to be the imagination. My hero, Peter Laurence, is not based on anyone. Nor are the other characters. Mine is a parallel world to the real one, and there is no secret passage between the two. You will be wasting your time if you think that the purpose of the series is to work out who everyone is ‘meant to be’. In Roadkill, neither Covid nor Brexit consume every politician’s waking hour.”

Sunday 1 November at 8:40pm on ABC.

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