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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Nov 25, 2017 8:21:56 GMT
ITV’s four-part drama Hatton Garden will premiere on Tuesday December 12th at 9pm and will then air daily in the same time-slot.
Hatton Garden depicts the audacious jewellery and cash burglary at the heart of London’s diamond district executed by an elderly gang of career criminals across the Easter Bank Holiday weekend in April 2015.
It tells the inside story of how the men pulled off the heist which was considered in a class of its own in terms of scale and ambition, and the extraordinary level of planning, preparation and organisation required to penetrate the vault of the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Company. It was penned by Paul Whittington and Terry Winsor and stars Timothy Spall, Kenneth Cranham, David Hayman, Alex Norton and Brian F. O’Byrne.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 25, 2017 10:02:06 GMT
Hmmm.... interesting! According to last night's HIGNFY it was a cock-up from start to finish.
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Post by Geoffers on Apr 28, 2019 17:50:16 GMT
This is now being trailed as "finally the story can be told",and "coming this May".
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Post by Delia on Apr 28, 2019 22:33:05 GMT
Looking forward to it, as it's such a stellar cast and it was an interesting crime, at the time.
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Post by pandaeyes on Apr 29, 2019 10:14:11 GMT
I too am looking forward to this, having seen the trailer several times. Decent cast, too.
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Post by Miranda on Apr 29, 2019 12:36:38 GMT
Why didn't it air in the original slot?
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Post by geometryman on Apr 29, 2019 13:00:03 GMT
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Post by Miranda on Apr 29, 2019 13:03:36 GMT
Ah! Fair enough then.
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Post by geometryman on Apr 29, 2019 13:04:08 GMT
Ignore exact date - that article is from Feb 2018.
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Post by Miranda on Apr 29, 2019 13:05:28 GMT
It's taken a very long time for this to get to court.
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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on May 8, 2019 17:14:48 GMT
ITV’s four-part drama Hatton Garden will premiere on Monday May 20th at 9pm and will then air daily in the same time-slot.
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Post by geometryman on May 17, 2019 10:30:23 GMT
Of possible interest, for comparison - the 2017 film 'The Hatton Garden Job' is showing on Film4 tonight (Friday 17 May), 9.00 pm. Judging from the RT write-up, the ITV series will be considerably better.
On Friday 24 May, after the series has finished but in the same time slot, is the documentary 'Hatton Garden: the Inside Story' about the police investigation.
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Post by undertheparapet on May 22, 2019 15:37:39 GMT
I’ve watched both film versions of this story as well as the first two episodes of the ITV series.
They each have their own good and weak points, although the acting in all is pretty good. The character of Basil in all of them is cast too young, but this wasn’t known at the time of writing. He’s actually nearly 60.
I’ve also read a few online reviews ( you know the sort - the IMDB ones written by teenagers from Arizona and people on creative writing courses who already think they could do a better script). I tend to get a bit impatient with those viewers who want to see “ action” (whatever that is) a la Hollywood heist capers, complain it is slow and that they are unable to empathise with or otherwise ‘admire’ any of the characters. For goodness sake- they are career criminals, they underestimated modern detective methods and they bickered and made a hash of things.
They lost.
They’re not Brad Pitt or (ironically) Michael Caine.
It doesn’t bother me if no one in a crime drama series, including the law, is admirable.
We’re not supposed to be on the side of the villains and we should probably be more pragmatic about the role of the investigators.
There really is no honour amongst thieves.
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Post by technicolour on May 22, 2019 18:10:29 GMT
I'm really enjoying this.
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Post by thecleaner on May 23, 2019 9:55:57 GMT
I've watched the Michael Caine film of this robbery and now this tv version [tv much better]....yes, they didn't get away with it but the initial robbery, I am just amazed they did it - the mistakes form both sides, jaw dropping and the bins, last night, left outside - YOU CAN'T MAKE IT UP.
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Anymore to come?
