David Tennant is gearing up for one more ITV drama after recreating the notorious shot of Alexander Litvinenko in hospital earlier than he died from poisoning.
The upcoming collection explores the story of the Metropolitan Police officers who investigated the case of Litvinenko, who was present in declining well being at College School Hospital in London.
Litvinenko, who was a former officer of the Russian Federal Safety Service and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, died in agony in November 2006 after ingesting a uncommon radioactive substance.
On his deathbed, he claimed to have been poisoned on the direct orders of Mr Putin.
ITV has shared a first-look picture of David Tennant because the KGB officer within the four-part drama titled Litvinenko, which can air on ITVX this December.
Within the first-look snap, Tennant recreated the well-known picture of Litvinenko in his hospital mattress, which dominated the headlines earlier than his loss of life.
The programme can also be set to deal with Litvinenko’s widow Marina (Margarita Levieva), and her battle to persuade the British authorities to publicly title her husband’s killers and acknowledge the Russian State’s position in his homicide.
In a press release, author George Kay mentioned: ‘In late 2006, Alexander Litvinenko was a dwelling witness to his personal homicide. He spent his dying days entrusting the Metropolitan Police with the main points of what occurred to him.
‘It took these police and his exceptional widow Marina Litvinenko a decade to have these claims ratified. Their stamina, exhausting work and bravado are what make this not solely an important story of our instances however a privilege to be requested to put in writing.’
A UK public inquiry concluded in 2016 that Russians Dmitri Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi, had intentionally poisoned Litvinenko by placing Polonium-210 into his drink on the Millennium Resort in Mayfair.
Headed by the previous Excessive Court docket decide Sir Robert Owen, the inquiry discovered the tea poisoning had “in all probability” been carried out with the approval of the Russian president.
Alongside Physician Who’s Tennant, Line of Obligation’s Mark Bonnar and The Soccer Manufacturing facility actor Neil Maskell.
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