Model new ITV drama The Thief, His Spouse and the Canoe begins this Easter Financial institution Vacation weekend and it is stuffed with the very best British appearing expertise, together with Monica Dolan, Eddie Marsan, Mark Stanley and sure, Karl Pilkington. It begins on Easter Sunday at 9pm on ITV and airs throughout the week.
The brand new drama, penned by Unforgotten creator Chris Lang, is on for 4 episodes and relies on an actual story. The drama focuses on how Anne Darwin, performed by BAFTA-winner Dolan (Applicable Grownup, W1A, A Very English Scandal), grew to become complicit in her husband’s deception as she began to persuade the world, their household and associates, the police and insurance coverage corporations, that he had gone lacking in 2002 while canoeing off the coast of Seaton Carew in Cleveland, the place the couple owned two massive homes with panoramic views of the ocean.
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The deception was to take its toll on Anne who lied to their sons, Mark and Anthony, for 5 years while her husband, within the early days of the fraud, secretly lived in a bedsit subsequent door to the house he shared with Anne. Devastated by the lack of their father, neither son had an inkling their mother and father have been able to such treachery. Anne and John Darwin ultimately determined to go away Seaton Carew and transfer to Panama Metropolis to start out a brand new life collectively earlier than their secret was uncovered by the invention of an notorious photograph of them posing in a Panama actual property workplace in July 2006.
At her trial Anne Darwin pleaded not responsible, arguing that she had been coerced into the plot by her husband, however the jury did not consider her. She and her husband have been each jailed for greater than six years.
The drama begins Sunday, April 17 and broadcasts over the next nights at 9pm on ITV and ITV Hub (4 episodes Sunday to Wednesday).
