Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~55 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 4 episodes
- Status
- Miniseries
- Age rating
- TV-14
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
- based on novel or book
- miniseries
- british politics
- british prime minister
- political intrigue
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Malcolm Tierney
- Diane Fletcher
- William Chubb
- David Lyon
- Isabelle Amyes
- James Villiers
- Christopher Owen
- Damien Thomas
- Nicholas Selby
- Kenny Ireland
- Colin Jeavons
- Directed
- Paul Seed
- Created
- Andrew Davies
- Written
- Michael Dobbs, Andrew Davies
Production
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 · 163 ratings
- Network & studio
- BBC One, BBC
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
