Filming begins in Liverpool on The Ipcress File
John Hodge has written the 6 x 60 with Paul Ritchie producing and James Watkins directing. The exec producers are Will Clarke and Andy Mayson for Altitude Television, Andrew Eaton for Turbine, Sandy Lieberson, Watkins and Hilary and Steven Saltzman. The espionage thriller is set in 1960s London and Berlin, against the backdrop of Cold War Europe – the book was Len Deighton’s first spy novel to introduce protagonist Palmer. When the commission was first announced, director Watkins said: “We can’t wait to bring Len Deighton’s intoxicating web of spies - sexier than Smiley’...
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