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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Jan 16, 2022 12:25:06 GMT
Trigger Point will premiere on ITV on Sunday January 23rd at 9pm.
Trigger Point is set in contemporary London and focuses on the Bomb Disposal Squad. Known as “Expo”, officers risk their lives daily on ‘the long walk’ towards danger. Death is always just a heartbeat away.
The series follows front line officer Lana Washington, who is an experienced bomb disposal operative, known as an ‘Expo’ and Joel Nutkins, who works alongside her.
Both ex-military, the pair are close, having served together in Afghanistan. When a terrorist campaign threatens the capital over the summer, the Expos are at the forefront of urgent efforts to find out who is behind the bombings before fatalities escalate.
The drama series, which was created by Daniel Brierley, stars Vicky McClure (Line Of Duty), Adrian Lester (Hustle), Mark Stanley (Honour), Warren Brown (Luther), Kerry Godliman (After Life), Cal MacAninch (Des), Manjinder Virk (Midsomer Murders) and Ralph Ineson (The Capture).
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Post by sootycat on Jan 16, 2022 12:51:08 GMT
This sounds good.
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 16, 2022 19:41:50 GMT
Why would front line bomb disposal operatives be involved in the security or police investigation???
Surely they just get called in, do their job and move on.
I mean there must be forensic experts and security personnel etc but the actual people who dispose of the bombs aren't part of that.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 16, 2022 20:01:09 GMT
That's a good point!
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 16, 2022 20:23:54 GMT
Ah well. I suppose it's the same as a histopathologist interviewing suspects, lol!!
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Post by superdreen on Jan 16, 2022 22:42:01 GMT
Does anyone remember a series years ago which I think was called Danger UXB, and was about an Army bomb disposal unit? I think it starred Anthony Andrews as the commanding officer. Have a feeling he got blown up in the final episode.
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Post by sleepyp on Jan 16, 2022 23:34:50 GMT
I remember it, one of my favourites  I too thought the Anthony Andrews character was killed in the final episode, but that’s not what the Wikipedia entry says Series was in 1979! |
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Post by Miranda on Jan 17, 2022 0:37:14 GMT
That was on one of the streaming channels recently. I remember watching it a couple of years ago. It was of its time but still very good.
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Post by technicolour on Jan 23, 2022 21:44:00 GMT
The light switch! How long has she been doing this job? Rubbish so far. Twenty minutes to go..
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Post by linseed on Jan 23, 2022 21:48:12 GMT
There’s so many code words and acronyms that it’s going to take the whole series to work out what they are
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Post by marion on Jan 24, 2022 10:24:37 GMT
If there isn’t a UCO in the OCG I shall be very disappointed! 😂😂
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Post by sootycat on Jan 24, 2022 11:55:29 GMT
There’s so many code words and acronyms that it’s going to take the whole series to work out what they are Very Jed Mercurio  |
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 24, 2022 12:39:53 GMT
Did 15 minutes and bowed out.
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Post by vicky on Jan 24, 2022 15:41:29 GMT
I found it hard going for about the first half hour and then it did seem to improve - or maybe I just got used to it. According to Vicky McClure in a Radio Times interview, some of the dialogue is improvised which I really don't like as I find actors tend to gabble when they do that and that makes it hard to follow. Contrary to what they probably think, it doesn't make it all more realistic to me, quite the opposite. I'll put the next bit behind a spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't watched it yet. {SPOILER:Click to Show}In view of the way the episode ended, was that Adrian Lester's only apprearance in the series or will he have miraculously survived the explosion? I was expecting it but it still made me jump and squeak! |
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Post by linseed on Jan 24, 2022 16:00:52 GMT
Well {SPOILER:Click to Show}If he does appear again it will be minus one arm, as we saw it on the ground, not attached to its owner (I knew there was a reason for the close up of the tattoo earlier) |
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Anymore to come?
