For more than 40 years, MASTERPIECE has enthralled audiences with the works of the finest classic and contemporary writers interpreted by the world’s foremost actors.
Bill Nighy ("Pirates of the Caribbean") reprises his Golden Globe–nominated role as master spy Johnny Worricker in two new thrillers, written and directed by Sir David Hare (Oscar®- nominated adapter of "The Reader" and "The Hours").
Wrapping up an intricate plot that began with "Page Eight" in 2011, involving secret crimes and unplumbed depths of political corruption, MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY presents "Turks & Caicos" on Sunday, November 9, followed a week later by "Salting The Battlefield" on Sunday, November 16.
"Turks and Caicos" airs Sunday, November 9 at 9 p.m. - Sun, sand, and CIA are the themes of Johnny’s (Nighy) clandestine retirement on a Caribbean island, overrun with high-rolling American businessmen who are bankrolling a mysterious project. Their worldly-wise publicist (Winona Ryder) and a tycoon named Curtis (Christopher Walken) befriend Johnny.
The cloak-and-dagger life revives when a dodgy British philanthropist named Stirling Rogers (Rupert Graves) arrives with an associate, Margot (Helena Bonham Carter), whom Johnny knows well. Johnny’s new mission is to escape from an ever-tightening noose.
"Salting The Battlefield" airs Sunday, November 16 at 9 p.m. - Johnny (Nighy) and Margot (Bonham Carter) are together again, just like old times, managing to stay a jump ahead of an international dragnet hard on their heels all across Europe. British Prime Minister Alec Beasley (Ralph Fiennes) desperately wants Johnny back, and so does Johnny’s old MI5 colleague, Jill Tankard (Judy Davis)—but for different reasons. Who will win this frenzied game of spy versus spy? And what happens when a terrible secret sees the light of day?
WORRICKER is a Carnival Films, Heyday Films, BeaglePug, MASTERPIECE co-production in association with NBCUniversal for BBC. It is written and directed by David Hare. The Executive Producers are Gareth Neame, Bill Nighy, Christine Langan, Ed Wethered, and Nigel Marchant. The Executive Producer for MASTERPIECE is Rebecca Eaton. The producers are Celia Duval, David Heyman, and David Barron.
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