The Take An exciting and uncompromising four-part adaptation of the best-selling crime thriller by Martina Cole,The Take stars Tom Hardy (Warrior, RocknRolla) as Freddie Jackson, and Brian Cox (The Escapist) as Ozzy. Freddie is a free man after spending a considerable stretch at Her Majesty's Pleasure, and now he plans to take the underworld by storm. As events unfold, his wife Jackie (Kierston Wareing - Leaving) becomes increasingly unstable, not helped by the actions of her younger sister, Maggie (Charlotte Riley - Easy Virtue), who is in love with Freddie's cousin, Jimmy (Shaun Evans - Boy A). If you are a Jackson then you trust no one, because everyone in this criminal world is on The Take. The Runaway From the makers of the hit series the The Take, the latest tale from best-selling crime writer Martina Cole follows the lives of two childhood sweethearts. Set in the seedy East London and sleazy London's Soho in the 1960's plus the mean streets of New york in the 1970's, The Runaway has an outstanding cast including Keith Allen (Robin Hood), Alan Cumming (The Good Wife), Ken Stott (Rebus) and a host of hot new talent. Cathy Connor and Eamonnn Docherty were brought up together in the heart of gangland East London. Separated by violent circumstances their lives take strikingly different directions until they meet together again as adults...
