Jodie Whittaker (Physician Who, Assault the Block) has signed on to play a hotshot media lawyer within the ITV drama In Contempt. Forward of her function within the Hulu pilot Chicks and an element within the London-set Solely Murders within the Constructing Season 6, Whittaker will star within the “high-stakes” authorized drama as barrister Olivia Savareid.
The character’s top-drawer advocacy expertise have constructed her a profession defending folks’s reputations and fascinating in multi-million pound litigation to stop their names from being destroyed on social media, however the sequence will see the tables turned on her.
In Contempt establishes Olivia’s difficult working relationship with veteran information director Greg Dalman, who edits a London each day newspaper susceptible to pushing the boundaries of what may be revealed.
With a repute for taking no prisoners, Greg has the aptitude of appearing recklessly if he believes it’s within the public curiosity, and and as his authorized counsel, Olivia, should summon all her expertise and experience to maintain him out of libel courtroom.
She can also be the mom of 15-year-old daughter, however when an explosive scenario erupts at work, she makes an important misjudgement and Olivia’s personal repute is out of the blue on the road.
Steve Thompson (Sherlock) is the present’s author, with Sue Vertue and Steven Moffat the manager producers. Ed Bazalgette (The Final Kingdom) is the director and Lawrence Until (Douglas is Cancelled) the producer. ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly Hill, who commissioned the present can also be overseeing manufacturing for the broadcaster.
Sherlock and Dracula maker Hartswood Movies is producing in affiliation with its mother or father, ITV Studios (ITVS), with the present airing within the UK on ITV and STV and on streamers ITVX and STV Participant.
by way of: Deadline
