Sunday, January 9, 2011
watch Hustle Season 7 Episode 2
ALRIGHTTY!!! Another episode of Hustle coming this Friday (GMT) or Saturday (Asia). Enter into the world of a con artist. Not just a ordinary con, but a perfect hustle. In this episode, the team are close to closing in on a small con in a café until Joe Ryan, a former boyfriend of Emma's, shows up unexpectedly and blows their cover. Emma ends up agreeing to see him again so she can find out what he has been up to. After finding out that he has hit hard times following the death of his wife and becoming involved with a dodgy money-lending business called Dosh4you the team have found their next mark. Pretty exciting stuff this episode, so please join me and watch Hustle Season 7 Episode 2 here:
About the show:
Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film and Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but which return a higher reward than simple confidence tricks.
Hustle was largely born from the same production team that created and popularised the early series of Spooks, a similarly-styled drama series first broadcast in 2002. Bharat Nalluri, that series' Executive Director, first conceived the idea in early 2002 while filming for the first Spooks series was ongoing. Nalluri pitched the concept to Jane Featherstone, Managing Director of Kudos Film & Television which was the production company behind Spooks, in the back of a taxi while returning from a day's filming. Intrigued by the idea, Featherstone recruited Tony Jordan, the lead scriptwriter of the soap opera EastEnders, to develop it into a workable proposal.
Jordan quickly produced some initial script drafts, which Featherstone took to the BBC; Gareth Neame, Head of Drama Commissioning, rapidly approved a six-part series. Featherstone assembled a production team that had considerable overlap with the Spooks crew, including Simon Crawford Collins as producer and Matthew Graham as co-writer. In creating the first episodes, Jordan drew inspiration from the long tradition of confidence tricks and heists in Hollywood and television, including The A Team, The Sting and The Grifters. Featherstone remarked that "Ocean's Eleven was on around the time Bharat and I first spoke, and I think it helped to inspire us, but really we took our inspiration from a whole catalogue of movies and books... we wanted to make something that had the energy, verve, style and pure entertainment value of those sorts of films" At the same time, the writers attempted to draw on the success of recent blockbusters such as Ocean's Eleven and Mission: Impossible; speaking in an interview in December 2003, Crawford explained that "[such shows] worked because of the interaction within the group – the plotlines were almost irrelevant".
About last season:
Series Six started 4 January 2010. All of the 5th series cast returned with production that moved to Birmingham, despite the show retaining its London setting. The series once again consists of 6 episodes. Lolita Chakrabarti (Lester's real-life wife) made a guest star appearance as Museum Curator Nishika Baboor in this series' third episode, Tiger Troubles.