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The Fixer - 2008
A crime drama with a difference.
Jody Lee Latham, Peter Mullan, Andrew Buchan and Tamsin Outhwaite cast of The Fixer © ITV1
Kudos
Writer: Neil Cross
Director: Alrick Riley
Kent Filming Locations: Joss Bay, Broadstairs
From the award winning production company Kudos, who also brought you Hustle, Life on Mars and Spooks , comes a six part drama starring Tamsin Outhwaithe (Eastenders, Hotel Babylon), Peter Mullan (Children of Men, The Magdalene Sisters), Andrew Buchan (Cranford, Party Animals) and Jody Lee Latham (Ruby Blue, Shameless).
Retired police officer, Kenny Jameson (Peter Mullan), heads up
a renegade group acting outside the law to bring order to the
spiralling criminal activity in the country. He hires John Mercer
(Andrew Buchan), a former Special Forces member who has just been
released from prison, to fix these 'problems' by carrying out
assassinations.Joined by Rose (Tamsin Outhwaite), a
disgraced ex police officer and by petty thief Calum (Jody Lee
Latham), the group enable Mercer to carry out his hits
effectively, making them a deadly force to reckon with.
The shoot visited Kent briefly in 2007, filming at Botany Bay in Thanet. Botany Bay is a beautiful sandy bay popular with tourists but it was once the home of notorious smugglers! In fact, Botany Bay is said to have been the location of the infamous Battle of Botany Bay, where Joss Snelling’s gang were caught red handed smuggling goods into the county. This resulted in the death of nine of the crew.
The seclusion of the bay provided the perfect backdrop for a dark and sinister hit by The Fixer!
The programme airs on the 10th March at 9pm on ITV.
[Pascale Blackburn]
Links
- For more infomation about The Fixer visit http://www.itv.com/Drama/contemporary/TheFixer/default.html
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For more information about Botany Bay and Thanet visit http://www.visitthanet.co.uk/
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For more information about the history of Smuggling in Thanet visit http://www.smuggling.co.uk/gazetteer_se_12.html
