The Take - SKY One OFFICIAL CHAT !!!

Watched the first two episodes tonight and ive got to say, sky 1 has pulled another great Series out of the hat, personally can't wait till next weeks episode.

did any watch it and what did you think?

EDIT : The guy who plays fredie is brilliant at playing him..... just had to say that LOL

 

Whats it about and what other programmes is it like? I never watched it but I might

 

Didnt see it, there was some intriguing paint drying on bbc4.

 

Adapted from the best-selling novel MARTINA COLE’S THE TAKE is a gripping drama about love, power, jealousy and betrayal.
The four-part serial features a stunning ensemble cast of British talent including Tom Hardy (Bronson, Stuart A Life Backwards), Emmy® award winner Brian * (Braveheart, The Bourne Supremacy, Deadwood), Kierston Wareing (It’s a Free World, Fish Tank), Charlotte Riley (Easy Virtue),) and Shaun Evans (Teachers).
Freddie Jackson (Hardy) is just out of prison. He’s done his time, made the right connections and now he’s ready to use them. With his faithful cousin Jimmy (Evans) by his side, Freddie is ready to take on the world. His wife Jackie (Wareing) dreams of having her husband home but she’s forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can’t leave alone.

At first Freddie gets everything he ever wanted and Jimmy is taken along for the ride, the two creating a growing crime empire that gives them all the respect and money they’ve hungered for. But behind it all sits Ozzy (*) - a legendary criminal godfather who manipulates Freddie and Jimmy’s fates from behind the bars of his prison cell.
Bitter, resentful and increasingly unstable, Jackie sees her life crumble while her little sister Maggie’s (Riley) star rises. In love with Jimmy, Maggie is determined not to end up like her sister. Freddie and Jackie watch Jimmy and Maggie achieve all the dreams that they themselves failed to realise: love, family, stability and respect.
Freddie soon proves himself to be unpredictably violent and extremely dangerous. A jealous resentment and an inability to control himself force Freddie to put both the business and family at risk. Torn between being loyal to a cousin he loves and being true to his own destiny, Jimmy is forced to decide between protecting Freddie or the life he has built with Maggie.
Martina Cole commented: “The Take was my era – I wanted to capture that. The times changed then – the family dynamics changed. Every now and then I like to go back and take people back to another era and show them how something began.” And Martina was thrilled with the casting, adding: “That Tom Hardy is fantastic. Freddie is such a big character and he played him fantastically. I saw Shaun, the guy who plays Jimmy, in a film called Gone and I rang Lavinia [Warner – Executive Producer] up and said you’ve got to watch this film, this kid is fantastic. Both the girls caught their characters perfectly – just perfectly.”
Brian * said: “This is an important piece. Like a British Godfather. It’s about that society and how it doesn’t work.“
Speaking about his character, Tom Hardy commented: “Freddie is like an old school gangster in a new school body – he’s on the fringe of two generations and so he’s discarded during the crossover between the two regimes because of his inability to blend in and to co-operate.”
Martina Cole is one of the UK’s most prolific crime writers, she is the bestselling author of fifteen novels set in London’s gangland, and her most recent three novels have gone straight to number one in the Sunday Times Bestseller List. Total book sales stand at over eight million. A firm favourite with critics and fans alike, Martina’s compelling and gritty prose is the perfect material for drama that pulls no punches.



MARTINA COLE’S THE TAKE Coming To Sky1 @ Unreality Primetime

 

yeh was good mate
i've read all her books
can't wait for the rest of the episodes to come on

 

*Moved to TC media...

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