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CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND A SHORT STAY IN SWITZERLAND STARS WIN TOP INTERNATIONAL EMMY ACTING AWARDS
DRG are delighted to announce that Julie Walters and Ben Whishaw, the stars of A Short Stay in Switzerland and Criminal Justice picked up top acting awards at the International Emmys in New York last night.
In A Short Stay in Switzerland (96’) Julie Walters gives a mesmerising performance as Dr Anne Turner, whose assisted suicide in a Zurich clinic made headline news in January 2006. Dr Turner was accompanied to Switzerland by her son and two daughters, who witnessed her death. With a lightness of touch, dark wit and a heart-wrenching humanity, Frank McGuinness – one of Britain’s foremost dramatists - explores the controversial issue of assisted suicide through the very personal prism of this extraordinary family. This moving film was produced by Liz Trubridge (The Riff Raff Element; These Foolish Things) and executive produced by Ruth Caleb (The Other Boleyn Girl , When I Was 12) for the BBC’s in-house drama department.
Ben Whishaw, currently starring as John Keats in Jane Campion’s Bright Star adds the International Emmy Best Actor award to the earlier RTS Award he received for his Criminal Justice role. In Criminal Justice (5 x 60’ and 2 x 100’), Whishaw plays Ben Coulter a young man accused of murdering a sexy stranger after a drunken and drug fuelled night on the town. The series follows Ben’s odyssey through the police, prison and legal system. It's a system where the truth is optional; where what counts is playing the game, in order to come out on top. First transmitted on BBC1 across five consecutive evenings in 2008 to great critical acclaim, Criminal Justice is written by Peter Moffat and directed by Otto Bathurst.
Criminal Justice 2 (5 x 60’ and 2 x 100’) was transmitted on BBC 1 in October this year and was also a huge critical and ratings success. Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks, Pride and Prejudice) plays Joe Miller, a barrister at the height of his professional powers. He is married to Juliet played by Maxine Peake (Shameless, Little Dorrit) who suffers from depression. One night Joe is stabbed in his home and life will never be the same again for the Miller family.
As the fragile Juliet Miller travels through the criminal justice system, under the constant scrutiny of police, prison and social services, questions of psychological and sexual abuse are showered on her until her ordeal ends in a heart-rending denouement in the High Court.
So What’s In This Issue?
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Criminal Justice 2
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Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice 2
2 x 100 or 5 x 60 | BBC PRODUCTIONS
Available in HD
Criminal Justice
5 x 60' or 2 x 110' | BBC PRODUCTIONS
Available in HD
WINNER BEST ACTOR,
INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARDS 2009
WINNER BEST DRAMA SERIAL, BAFTA 2009
WINNER BEST ACTOR (MALE), BEN WHISHAW, RTS TELEVISION AWARDS 2009
WINNER BEST DRAMA SERIES OR SERIAL, BROADCAST AWARDS 2009
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