Bodyguard (British TV series)

For the South Korean television series with the same name, see Bodyguard (2003 TV series).

Bodyguard
Genre	British Drama, Political Thriller
Created by	Jed Mercurio
Written by	Jed Mercurio
Directed by	Thomas Vincent John Strickland
Starring	Richard Madden Keeley Hawes
Composers	Ruth Barrett Ruskin Williamson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	2 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Simon Heath, Jed Mercurio, Elizabeth Kilgarriff
Producer	Priscilla Parish
Cinematography	John Lee
Running time	56 – 58 minutes
Production company	World Productions
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	26 August 2018 (2018-08-26) – present

Bodyguard is a British television drama series, created and written by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions for the BBC. The six-part series stars Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes. ITV Studios Global Entertainment handle international distribution for the series. The first episode broadcast on BBC One from 26 August 2018.

The series is set around the fictional character of David Budd. A heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a specialist protection officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service. He is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics stand for everything he despises.

Cast

• Richard Madden as David Budd, a war veteran and Protection Command bodyguard.
• Keeley Hawes as Julia Montague, a Conservative MP and the Home Secretary.
• Gina McKee as Anne Sampson, Head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command
• Sophie Rundle as Vicky Budd, David's wife and a ward sister at a London hospital.
• Paul Ready as Rob MacDonald, Special Advisor to the Home Secretary.
• Vincent Franklin as Mike Travis, Minister of State for Counter-Terrorism.
• Stuart Bowman as Stephen Hunter-Dunn, Director General of the Security Service (MI-5)
• Nina Toussaint-White as Louise Rayburn, a DS in the Metropolitan Police's Counter-Terrorism Command.
• Stephanie Hyam as Chanel Dyson, PR Advisor to Julia Montague.
• Tom Brooke as Andy Apsted
• Matt Stokoe as Luke Aitkens
• Pippa Haywood as Lorraine Chadwick, Chief Superintendent at 'Royalty and Specialist Protection'. Budd's superior officer.
• Shubham Saraf as Tahir Mahmood
• Claire-Louise Cordwell as Kim Knowles
• Ash Tandon as Deepak Sharma, a DCI in the Metropolitan Police's Counter-Terrorism Command.
• Grant Crookes as Chief Superintendent Crookes

Episodes

No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	UK viewers (millions)
1	"Episode 1"	Thomas Vincent	Jed Mercurio	26 August 2018 (2018-08-26)	N/A
DS David Budd, a damaged Afghanistan war veteran, is on a train from Glasgow to London when he intervenes and foils a plot to blow up the train. The attention lands him a job guarding the home secretary, Julia Montague. The tension between the two is at once apparent, as Montague embodies everything that Budd dislikes. Montague fires an employee, who in turn tries to bad mouth her to the press, but fails. Budd later meets up with an old army friend, Andy Apsted, the leader of a peace group, who also despises politicians, and is disgusted with Budd's new career choice. Meanwhile, Budd tries to deal with both his mental health issue, and his deteriorating relationship with his wife, Vicky, from whom he is separated.
2	"Episode 2"	Thomas Vincent	Jed Mercurio	27 August 2018 (2018-08-27)	N/A

External links

• Bodyguard at IMDb
• Bodyguard at BBC Online
• Bodyguard at epguides.com