British Comedy Guide

Double Time

  • TV comedy drama
  • ITV1
  • 2007
  • 1 episode

One-off comedy drama about a criminal who vows revenge on the actor who mocked him in a reconstruction of his biggest crime. Stars James Dreyfus, John Benfield, Claire Rushbrook, Chloe Howman, Nicholas Palliser and more.

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Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2007
Channel
ITV1
Episodes
1
Stars
James Dreyfus, John Benfield, Claire Rushbrook, Chloe Howman, Nicholas Palliser, Matt Cross, Michael Higgs, John Marquez and Brigid Zengeni
Writer
Paul Dornan
Director
Audrey Cooke
Producers
Mark Chapman and Clive Tulloh
Company

Infamous criminal George McCabe is arrested during a botched diamond heist and locked up at Braintree Prison. Lawrence Nixon, a struggling actor who is the spitting image of McCabe, is cast as McCabe in a TV reconstruction of the heist and decides to add a lisp and a camp walk to his performance. When the already furious McCabe discovers that his girlfriend is about to publish a book about his life, he plots an escape to get even.

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Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 31st December 2007 at 9pm on ITV1
Episode length
90 minutes

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