Keene, Allison (23 October 2018). " 'Bodyguard' Review: Richard Madden Takes Charge in Netflix's Twisty New Thriller Series". Collider . Retrieved 10 September 2020. The series began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 August 2018, [2] achieving the highest viewing figures for a new BBC drama in the multichannel era and the highest BBC viewing figures since 2008. [3] [4] The BBC commissioned the series from the then-independent World Productions in 2016. Since ITV Studios Global Entertainment acquired the company in 2017, they have handled international distribution for the series. [5] Netflix agreed to a distribution deal to broadcast the show outside the United Kingdom and Ireland. [6] Waterson, Jim (24 September 2018). "Bodyguard audience peaks with 10.4m viewers for series finale". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 2 October 2018. Trevor Rees-Jones is clearly a man to whom duty and loyalty are paramount. He has no personal feelings about Diana, beyond describing her as "a woman you could take down the pub, and from me, that's a pretty high compliment". He rightly accepts no blame in her death, though he still feels responsible that it happened "on my shift". The extent of Trevor Rees-Jones's injuries was only one of many rumours that would be confounded in the days and months following the crash in the Pont d'Alma tunnel.

He adds: "That film in two hours 30 minutes, encapsulated what had been then, six years of our life. Absent two elements - I'd never been shot at, when I was with her and I never made love to her. You take those two elements out and it really becomes a boring two and a half hours." Read More Related Articles Psychological Thrillers 'Bodyguard' and 'Homecoming' Examine the Trauma That Haunts Veterans". Time . Retrieved 22 October 2020. The now 64-year-old told how he came to work with the singing superstar, who died in 2012, saying: "She knows that I looked after her with my life, very few people commit like that. They didn't interview me for the job, I interviewed them. As bodyguard for Fayad's son, Dodi, Rees-Jones was with him and his companion, Princess Diana, for their summer romance - a romance played out to the tune of the paparazzi; and in the fatal car crash which tragically killed them both.

In her film debut, Whitney Houston plays Rachel Marron, a pop music superstar. It seems that one of her fans is stalking her and has threatened to kill her, so Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner), a professional bodyguard and former Secret Service agent, is hired to protect her. Michael Shaeffer as "Richard Longcross", an enigmatic MI5 agent working under Hunter-Dunn who becomes involved in a cat-and-mouse game with Budd.

Seoul International Drama Awards 2019 Nominees Announcement". Seoul International Drama Awards. 26 July 2019. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019 . Retrieved 29 August 2019.It was part of my duty, not just to protect the principal from outside elements, it's to protect them from themselves." Winners of the RTS Craft & Design Awards 2018 announced". Royal Television Society. 6 November 2018. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018 . Retrieved 26 December 2018. Bodyguard is a British political thriller television series created and written by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions as part of ITV Studios for the BBC. The six-part series centres around the fictional character of Police Sergeant David Budd ( Richard Madden), a British Army war veteran suffering from PTSD, who is now working for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service. He is assigned as the principal protection officer (PPO) for the ambitious Home Secretary Julia Montague ( Keeley Hawes), whose politics he despises. The series draws attention to controversial issues such as government monitoring of private information and its regulation, the politics of intervention and terrorism, and PTSD. [1] Frank, Rachel, Rachel's driver Henry (Christopher Birt), Rachel's son Fletcher (DeVaughn Nixon), and her sister Nikki (Michele Lamar Richards) then travel to Frank's father's home, which is a large log cabin in the mountains by a lake. Frank's dad, Herb Farmer (Ralph Waite) is a semi-retired attorney who welcomes the group to his home. At the mountain retreat, Nikki attempts to seduce Frank, and becomes angry when her advances are refused. Fletcher is almost killed the next day, when a bomb explodes inside the boat he had been riding in moments before. After finding footprints around the cabin, and finding the automobiles sabotaged, they realize Rachel's stalker has followed them. Nicholas Gleaves as The Rt Hon. Roger Penhaligon MP, the Government Chief Whip, Member of Parliament for Surrey North and Montague's ex-husband. A staunch supporter of the Prime Minister, he becomes increasingly suspicious and wary of Montague's political ambition.

We met in a London hotel room. I arrived early and walked in on a family conference. I told his mother how much I admired the way the family had coped - with the press, particularly with the pressure from Mohamed Al Fayed. It was nothing special, she said: "You cope in the only way you can, the only way you know how." Harp, Justin (22 January 2019). "Here are all the big winners from the NTAs 2019". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019 . Retrieved 23 January 2019.Awards, National Television. "Winners | National Television Awards". www.nationaltvawards.com . Retrieved 25 December 2020. BBC journalists including Andrew Marr, John Pienaar, John Humphrys, and Laura Kuenssberg appear as themselves. By the end of this profoundly gripping and moving story Trevor moves on, emerging from the centre of the storm, his honour and dignity intact. The hitman breaks into the house, Nikki tries to stop him, and he shoots and kills her before escaping. Frank ensures that his father, who is armed with a large caliber revolver, has secured the rest of the group on the second floor, then pursues the killer into the woods. Frank shoots at the hitman, but the hitman escapes through the dark woods. Frank learns the next day, from his Secret Service colleagues, that they have apprehended the stalker and were interviewing him when Nikki was shot.