The Trial of Christine Keeler (BBC One | HBO Max) — Andrea Harkin

The Trial of Christine Keeler

2019 | Lead Director, Episodes 1-4

The Trial of Christine Keeler is a British television series based on the chain of events surrounding the Profumo affair in the 1960s, written by Bafta-winning screenwriter Amanda Coe and told from Christine Keeler’s point of view.

Awards

Winner – Royal Television Society Awards SW – Best Drama

Credits

Cast: Sophie Cookson, James Norton, Ellie Bamber, Ben Miles

TRAILER

WATCH THE TRIAL OF CHRISTINE KEELER (Apple TV)

Reviews

★★★★ The story of the Profumo affair seen from a rare perspective – Keeler’s – is increasingly dark as a tangled web closes in around her. It's a furiously fast, fun ride which doesn’t let the deeper, darker issues fall from its grasp.

Lucy Mangan — The Guardian
★★★★ Directed by Andrea Harkin, it’s an extremely handsome, expensive-looking production that wouldn’t look out of place dropped into a run of The Crown.

Paul Kirkley — Radio Times
★★★★★ Christine Keeler has always been treated as a supporting player in her own life story. For the first time, this drama gives us an impression of who she was.

Christopher Stevens — The Daily Mail
★★★★ Sophie Cookson is simply sensational. Yes, the physical resemblance is uncanny, but Cookson also finds just the right mix of strength and vulnerability in a young woman who is simultaneously street smart, and hopelessly naïve.

Paul Kirkley — Radio Times
★★★★ A scandal imbued with a stylish exoticism with two terrific actors in the roles of Keeler (Sophie Cookson is magnetic) and Mandy Rice-Davies (Ellie Bamber), using sex as their only card to play.

Carol Midgley — The Times
★★★★ With high production-values and space to get to know the characters, it played out in places like a sexier and less staid version of The Crown. It was a compelling history lesson, and one that might help to repair the reputation of a much-maligned young woman.

Anita Singh — The Telegraph
★★★★ Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies have been given their young lives back, rather than existing as adjuncts only to historical geopolitics, and as such this has been a marvellous endeavour, finely produced and shot.

Euan Ferguson — The Observer

Scenes and Sequences

The Trial of Christine Keeler — Sizzle Reel [Offline / Ungraded]

The Trial Of Christine Keeler — EP4 — Climatic Scenes (end sequence)

The Trial Of Christine Keeler — EP3 — Climatic Scenes (end sequence)

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