Hustle: Series One is the first series of the BBC's television series Hustle, which ran for six episodes from 24 February 2004 - 30 March 2004.
The series introduced the viewers to be original the Hustle Gang consisting of Michael Stone, Albert Stroller, Ash Morgan, Danny Blue, Stacie Monroe. There were recurring characters like their regular bar tender Eddie's Bar.
Summary[]
An action-packed show blended with humour and intrigue, following the fortunes of a gang of expert con-artists on the loose in London. Hustle follows their fortunes and inter-personal relationships. The comedy is also provided by their antics with respect to Eddie.
The rules of the game are that you can't cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break; It's not just about the money and don't have anything in your life hat you can't walk away from in a second.
From the creators of Spooks, Hustle takes you into a world with a whole new et of rules. An action packed blend of humour and intrigue, each of the six episodes of the first series, follows the fortunes of a gang of five expert con artists let lose on the streets of London.
Conception[]
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, 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.[6][7] 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 (and in a similar vein, the films and TV series of Mission Impossible).[9] 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".
Cast[]
- Adrian Lester as Michael "Mickey Bricks" Stone.
- Marc Warren as Danny Blue.
- Jaime Murray as Stacie Monroe.
- Robert Glenister as Ash "Three Socks" Morgan
- Robert Vaughn as Albert Stroller
Episodes[]
DVD Extras[]
- Assembling the team
Gallery[]
