Midnight Man (miniseries)
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| Genre | Thriller |
| Written by | David Kane |
| Directed by | David Drury |
| Starring |
James Nesbitt Catherine McCormack Rupert Graves Reece Dinsdale Ian Puleston-Davies Zara Turner Peter Capaldi Alan Dale |
| Composer(s) | Ben Bartlett |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Gareth Neame |
| Producer(s) | Alan J. Wands |
| Cinematography | Simon Richards |
| Editor(s) | Chris Ridsdale |
| Camera setup | Single |
| Running time | 180 min. |
| Production company(s) | Carnival Films |
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| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Original release | May 8 – May 22, 2008 |
Midnight Man is a 2008 British television serial produced by Carnival Films for the ITV network. The three-part serial stars James Nesbitt as Max Raban, a former investigative journalist who discovers an international conspiracy involving government policy groups and death squads. It co-stars Catherine McCormack as Alice Ross, a policy advisor who helps Raban, and Reece Dinsdale as Blake, the head of the death squad.
The serial was written by David Kane in response to national paranoia in the wake of the War on Terror. Kane was inspired by the way the films Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View and The Conversation reflected a post-Vietnam paranoia in the United States. The director David Drury had the predominantly nighttime-set serial filmed in the winter, to maximise the use of darkness and keep down production costs. His inspiration for the look of the serial came from The Godfather, which featured rich colours.
Reaction to the serial was generally positive; critics believed the drama was formulaic and uninspired, but appreciated the direction and acting. Nesbitt received a Best Actor nomination at the 2008 ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards.
Max Raban (played by James Nesbitt) is a former investigative journalist who lost his job when he named a source in a government scandal. The source killed herself and Raban's guilt left him estranged from his wife, Carolyn (played by Zara Turner), and daughter. The guilt manifested itself as phengophobia, a fear of daylight, which Raban seeks to cure by regularly visiting a therapist, Trevor (played by Peter Capaldi), at unsociable hours. To earn money, Raban scours dustbins for celebrity scandals, which he sells to his former editor and best friend whom he has known since university, Jimmy Kerrigan (played by Ian Puleston-Davies).
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