Calling all Keeley Hawes fans: Crossfire premiered with a bang and viewers are already loving the new drama. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
There most certainly is. The trailer may just be one minute-long but it really does deliver on the tension. In it, we quickly get a sense of the upsetting scenes that will unfold in this drama. We see people running, tripping over and children hiding until we pan to Jo who is sat in the rain.
We see her ripping up newspapers that have her image emblazoned on the front of them, labelling her as the “hero of holiday horror”. Evidently, along with the trailer’s existential questioning, it’s clear that Jo is grappling with the events of the shooting long after she’s returned home. “It was always going to end like this,” she says.The series is created and written by Louise Doughty and is her first original series for television.
“This is a drama about a group of ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary event – a gun attack on the hotel where they are staying. In extremity, each character is faced with a set of dilemmas: and at the heart of it is Jo, who booked the holiday and unknowingly put her family and friends - and herself – at risk.
Talking about the role, Hawes says: “I’m so excited to be embarking on this brilliantly compelling and propulsive drama for the BBC, especially as it’s the third production for Buddy Club. Filming has already begun and we’re delighted to be collaborating with the team at Dancing Ledge Productions and Louise Doughty on her first original production for television.”
Piers Wenger, director of BBC Drama also says: “Louise’s scripts crackle with adrenalin, intrigue and secrets kept among a long-standing group of friends. But amidst the action and emotion,explores the consequences of the secrets we keep, the risks we take and the lies we tell to conceal them. This is a startling original piece of writing. We are thrilled to be working again with Louise and Dancing Ledge Productions, and to be welcoming back the unmissable Keeley Hawes to BBC One.