The State Within
| The State Within | |
|---|---|
 Sharon Gless, Jason Isaacs and Ben Daniels |
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| Format | Thriller |
| Created by | Lizzie Mickery Daniel Percival |
| Directed by | Michael Offer, Daniel Percival |
| Starring | Jason Isaacs Ben Daniels Sharon Gless Nigel Bennett Eva Birthistle |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Grainne Marmion |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One BBC America |
| Original run | 2 November – 7 December 2006 |
The State Within is a 2006 six-episode British television political drama, written by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, produced by Grainne Marmion as a joint BBC–BBC America production, that was broadcast by BBC1 in the United Kingdom from Thursday, 2 November 2006.[1]
The protagonist of The State Within is Sir Mark Brydon (Jason Isaacs), the British Ambassador to Washington at the centre of a political conspiracy threatening to depose Western governments. As such, he must prevent a war, while facing a personal dilemma. Lynne Warner (Sharon Gless) is the United States Secretary of Defense, Nicholas Brocklehurst (Ben Daniels) is nominally the British Counsellor External Affairs, but is a Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) agent assigned to embassy duty, and James Sinclair (Alex Jennings) is the former British ambassador to the fictional former Soviet republic of Tyrgyzstan. This character resembles the "diplomatic untouchable" Craig Murray, the drinking, womanizing[2] British ambassador who became embroiled in revealing human rights abuses in Uzbekistan.
In 2006, Episode One of The State Within drew 5.7 million viewers, but, by Episode Three, the audience was 3.1 million. On 22 January 2007, this political drama was published on DVD. In the U.S., its premiere broadcast, on BBC America, was the Presidents Day weekend (17-19 February), as a three-part miniseries concluding on 24 February 2007. In the UK BBC Four re-ran the miniseries in June 2007, as part of its Conspiracy U.S.A. Week programming.[3]
The State Within was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category, Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
[edit] References
- ^ "Release details for The State Within". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770652/releaseinfo. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^ Paton Walsh, Nick (2004-07-15). "The Envoy who said too much". G2 (The Guardian). http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1261480,00.html. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
- ^ "The State Within - Episodes". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/thestatewithin/episodes/.
[edit] External links
- The State Within from the BBC website
- The State Within from the Internet Movie Database
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