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Line 1: {{About\|the British legal drama\|the American television series about the kidnapping of [[John Paul Getty III]]\|Trust (American TV series)}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=October 2016}} {{Use British English\|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox television \| ~~show_name~~image = ~~Trust~~ = ~~\| image =~~ \| image_size = \| image_alt = \| caption = \| genre = [[Legal drama]] \| creator = [[Simon Block]] \| based_on = \| writer = Simon Block<br>Andrew Rattenbury Line 28: \| runtime = 50 minutes \| company = Box TV ~~\| distributor =~~ \| network = [[BBC One]] \| first_aired = {{start date\|2003\|1\|9\|df=yes}} \| last_aired = {{end date\|2003\|2\|13\|df=yes}} ~~\| picture_format = [[16:9]]~~ ~~\| audio_format = [[Stereo]]~~ ~~\| preceded_by =~~ ~~\| followed_by =~~ ~~\| website = http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/trust/~~ }} '''''Trust''''' ~~was~~is a UKBritish [[television]] ~~program~~[[legal drama]], produced, written and created by [[Simon Block]], ~~for~~and ~~the~~broadcast on [[BBC One]] byfrom ~~Box~~9 TVJanuary ~~Productions~~until 13 February 2003.<ref>{{Cite Itweb\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/trust/\|title ~~starred~~= ~~[[Robson~~BBC ~~Green]]~~- ~~and~~Drama a- ~~cast~~Trust}}</ref> ofThe ~~other~~series ~~British~~starred ~~actors~~[[Robson Green]], ~~including~~with [[Sarah Parish]], [[Neil Stuke]], [[Chiwetel Ejiofor]], [[Eva Birthistle]] and [[Ian McShane]]. ~~Broadcast for only~~Only one series inwas ~~the UK~~made before ~~being~~the ~~put~~programme onwas ~~permanent~~decommissioned ~~hold~~by the ~~series~~BBC.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jan/27/broadcasting.bbc2\|title=Green set to lose BBC's Trust\|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]\|date=27 January 2003}}</ref> ''Trust'' received ~~had~~ mixed reviews in the UKBritish press;, ~~however the series~~but received better ~~reviews~~critical acclaim when it was rebroadcast on [[BBC America]] in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.today.com/id/4363803/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/trust-latest-bbc-tv-import/\|title='Trust' is latest BBC TV import}}</ref> The series was produced by Box TV Productions. ~~==Characters==~~ * '''Stephen Bradley''' ([[Robson Green]]) – The show's [[protagonist]], a [[wikt:maverick\|maverick]] [[Partner (business rank)\|partner]] and team leader of the London City law firm Cooper-Fozard.▼ * '''Annie Naylor''' ([[Sarah Parish]]) – Lawyer and aspiring partner, a member of Stephen's team.▼ * '''Martin Greig''' ([[Neil Stuke]]) – Talented lawyer on Stephen's team. He is openly gay. * '''Ashley Carter''' ([[Chiwetel Ejiofor]]) – Talented junior lawyer, often works apart from the team.▼ '''Maria Acklam''' ([[Eva Birthistle]]) – Trainee lawyer under Stephen Bradley.▼ '''Alan Cooper-Fozard''' ([[Ian McShane]]) – Enigmatic senior partner, known more often as ''The PG'', an abbreviation of 'the Power and the Glory', for his ability to launch or crush a career. ==Plot== ''Trust'' revolves around a corporate law team led by partner Stephen Bradley ([[Robson Green]]), a maverick lawyer who often finds sense in apparently senseless argument. In each episode, the team are presented with corporate clients who require the services of the law firm, often in the handling of critical deals including takeovers, mergers and acquisitions and dissolutions. The ~~show~~series also ~~dealt~~deals with issues relating to long city working hours, corporate competition, drug abuse in the work place and corporate social responsibility, (or the lack of it~~, as is often the case in this series)~~. The series is set in the [[City of London]] and makes full use of the city's iconic buildings as visual references. Cooper Fozard's offices are portrayed using two separate buildings for exterior shots — Thomas More Square in [[Wapping]] is portrayed as Cooper Fozard's office building, while roof shots, which often provide breaks within episode stories to focus on series spanning themes, are filmed at 1 Poultry.{{Citation needed\|date=July 2022}} Other locations have included [[The Bank of England]] and [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. The series makes constant use of aerial photographs of the city, with [[Tower 42]], [[The Gherkin]] (while still under construction), [[Shoreditch]] & [[Hoxton]], [[Lloyd's of London]] and [[Royal Exchange (London)\|The Royal Exchange]] frequently being utilised to set the scene. The title sequence features shots of the City from [[Waterloo Bridge]], and the title banner is displayed over an ultra-wide angle shot of the [[St Helen's (skyscraper)\|Aviva]] building and [[122 Leadenhall Street]] in [[St Andrew Undershaft\|Undershaft]].{{Citation needed\|date=July 2022}} ==Cast== ▲* ~~'''Stephen Bradley''' (~~[[Robson Green]]) ~~–~~as ~~The~~Stephen ~~show's [[protagonist]],~~Bradley; a ~~[[wikt:~~maverick~~\|maverick]]~~ [[Partner (business rank)\|partner]] and team leader of ~~the London City law firm~~ Cooper-Fozard. ▲* ~~'''Annie Naylor''' (~~[[Sarah Parish]]) ~~&ndash~~as Annie Naylor; ~~Lawyer and~~lawyer, aspiring partner, and a member of Stephen's team. * [[Neil Stuke]] as Martin Greig; a talented, openly gay lawyer on Stephen's team ▲* ~~'''Ashley Carter''' (~~[[Chiwetel Ejiofor]]) ~~&ndash~~as Ashley Carter; ~~Talented~~a talented junior lawyer, who often works apart from the team. ▲~~'''Maria Acklam'''~~ ([[Eva Birthistle]]) ~~&ndash~~as Maria Acklam; ~~Trainee~~a trainee lawyer ~~under~~on Stephen's ~~Bradley.~~team [[Ian McShane]] as Alan Cooper-Fozard; the enigmatic senior partner, known more often as ''The PG'' * [[Nick Sidi]] as Sammy Samuelson * [[Rosie Day]] as Emma Naylor * [[Dugald Bruce Lockhart]] as Dougie Baker * Julie Saunders as Serene Green * Sara Houghton as Melissa Chang ==Episodes== {\| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ~~style~~border="~~width:100%;~~1" style="background:~~#FFFFFF~~white;" \|- ! style="background-color: #~~bfe0bf~~FF623B; ~~width~~color: 5%#ffffff;"\| # No. ! style="background-color: #~~bfe0bf~~FF623B;" color: #ffffff;"\| Title ! style="background-color: #~~bfe0bf~~FF623B;" color: #ffffff;"\| ~~Director~~Directed by ! style="background-color: #~~bfe0bf~~FF623B;" \|color: ~~Original~~#ffffff;"\| ~~airdate~~Written by ! style="background-color: #FF623B; color: #ffffff;"\| Ratings (in millions)<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-30/\|title = Weekly top 30 programmes on TV sets (July 1998 – Sept 2018) \| BARB}}</ref><br /> <small> Sourced by [[Broadcasters' Audience Research Board\|BARB]].</small> ! style="background-color: #FF623B; color: #ffffff;"\| Original airdate {{Episode list \|EpisodeNumber = 1 \|Title = ~~Episode~~Black 1Heart \|DirectedBy = John Strickland \|WrittenBy=Simon Block \|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date\|2003\|1\|9\|df=y}} \|ShortSummary = Stephen Bradley's life isn't going well. He hasn't been home for 3 days and his wife is ready to kick him out. And at the firm, the director of finance is investigating his expense account records. The sale of a business he has spent 4 months working on is stalled because one of a pair of brothers won't sign the deal. Ashley is sent to do a pitch for a business, but then he has to do it himself, and so the deal falls through. At the last minute, Maria saves the deal, but at the end of the day Stephen is still at the office.▼ \|Aux2=6.23 \|LineColor = bfe0bf▼ ▲ \|ShortSummary = Stephen Bradley's life isn't going well. He hasn't been home for 3 days and his wife is ready to kick him out. And at the firm, the director of finance is investigating his expense account records. The sale of a business he has spent 4 months working on is stalled because one of a pair of brothers won't sign the deal. Ashley is sent to do a pitch for a business, but then he has to do it himself, and so the deal falls through. At the last minute, Maria saves the deal, but at the end of the day Stephen is still at the office. ▲\|LineColor = ~~bfe0bf~~FF623B }} {{Episode list \|EpisodeNumber = 2 \|Title = ~~Episode~~Closed 2Door \|DirectedBy =John Strickland \|WrittenBy=Simon Block \|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date\|2003\|1\|16\|df=y}} \|ShortSummary = Stephen is trying to close the sale of a travel business, but the seller is stalling and he needs to find out why. Martin and Annie represent a record label that wants to keep the members of a pop band from having relationships that cause the group's CD sales to drop. Ashley goes for drinks with the band and finds its easy to be led astray. Stephen's team is worried about his being audited, until they learn why Ruth is doing it. Meanwhile, Stephen's wife doesn't want to talk to him so she sends his father-in-law to mediate. Stephen finds comfort with Maria, who gives him a kiss.▼ \|Aux2= \|LineColor = bfe0bf▼ ▲ \|ShortSummary = Stephen is trying to close the sale of a travel business, but the seller is stalling and he needs to find out why. Martin and Annie represent a record label that wants to keep the members of a pop band from having relationships that cause the group's CD sales to drop. Ashley goes for drinks with the band and finds its easy to be led astray. Stephen's team is worried about his being audited, until they learn why Ruth is doing it. Meanwhile, Stephen's wife doesn't want to talk to him so she sends his father-in-law to mediate. Stephen finds comfort with Maria, who gives him a kiss. ▲\|LineColor = ~~bfe0bf~~FF623B }} {{Episode list \|EpisodeNumber = 3 \|Title = ~~Episode~~Knife 3Edge \|DirectedBy =John Strickland \|WrittenBy=Simon Block \|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date\|2003\|1\|23\|df=y}} \|ShortSummary = The day starts off with Maria packing her stuff to put some distance between herself and Stephen, who is meeting a client and wondering where she is. Stephen's client is an oil company buying another company in order to improve its environmental credentials. Martin thinks that the newly-installed CCTV cameras have been watching him, and wants to get rid of them. Stephen is being sued by a client who says that Euros were transposed for Pounds in a contract. Maria discovers some behind-the-scenes dealings that shed new light on the deal Stephen is trying to put together.▼ \|Aux2= \|LineColor = bfe0bf▼ ▲ \|ShortSummary = The day starts off with Maria packing her stuff to put some distance between herself and Stephen, who is meeting a client and wondering where she is. Stephen's client is an oil company buying another company in order to improve its environmental credentials. Martin thinks that the newly-installed CCTV cameras have been watching him, and wants to get rid of them. Stephen is being sued by a client who says that Euros were transposed for Pounds in a contract. Maria discovers some behind-the-scenes dealings that shed new light on the deal Stephen is trying to put together. ▲\|LineColor = ~~bfe0bf~~FF623B }} {{Episode list \|EpisodeNumber = 4 \|Title = ~~Episode~~Spilt 4Milk \|DirectedBy =Philippa Langdale \|WrittenBy=Andrew Rattenbury \|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date\|2003\|1\|30\|df=y}} \|ShortSummary = Stephen is battling to get a group of fashion designers to settle their dispute out of court. He persuades Annie to deal with a magazine owner who won't compromise on remaking a controversial teen magazine for the US market. Meanwhile, Martin is assigned to be the chaperone for Bring Your Child to Work Day. And Ashley takes over the account of a large pharmaceutical company, but is suspicious of their new anti-cancer drug.▼ \|Aux2= \|LineColor = bfe0bf▼ ▲ \|ShortSummary = Stephen is battling to get a group of fashion designers to settle their dispute out of court. He persuades Annie to deal with a magazine owner who won't compromise on remaking a controversial teen magazine for the US market. Meanwhile, Martin is assigned to be the chaperone for Bring Your Child to Work Day. And Ashley takes over the account of a large pharmaceutical company, but is suspicious of their new anti-cancer drug. ▲\|LineColor = ~~bfe0bf~~FF623B }} {{Episode list \|EpisodeNumber = 5 \|Title= Knoughts and ~~= Episode 5~~Crosses \|DirectedBy =Philippa Langdale \|WrittenBy=Simon Block \|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date\|2003\|2\|6\|df=y}} \|ShortSummary = On the evening of the annual summer party, Martin is trying to close a deal in which the bank has advanced the deadline, but he has to deal with an overbearing young client who has more money than sense. When Ashley discovers that there's a defect in the product his client is developing, he gets offered a bribe to ignore it. Annie discovers she is on the short list to become a partner, but had promised her husband to put his career first by working fewer hours. Then she discovers that while she's been spending the long hours at work, he's been having an affair.▼ \|Aux2= \|LineColor = bfe0bf▼ ▲ \|ShortSummary = On the evening of the annual summer party, Martin is trying to close a deal in which the bank has advanced the deadline, but he has to deal with an overbearing young client who has more money than sense. When Ashley discovers that there's a defect in the product his client is developing, he gets offered a bribe to ignore it. Annie discovers she is on the short list to become a partner, but had promised her husband to put his career first by working fewer hours. Then she discovers that while she's been spending the long hours at work, he's been having an affair. ▲\|LineColor = ~~bfe0bf~~FF623B }} {{Episode list \|EpisodeNumber = 6 \|Title = ~~Episode 6~~D-Day \|DirectedBy =Nicholas Laughland \|WrittenBy=Simon Block \|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date\|2003\|2\|13\|df=y}} \|ShortSummary = It's D-Day for a number of people. Stephen's wife has asked for a divorce and he is meeting with her and her lawyer to start proceedings. Annie has a partner interview but so does Martin, who was short-listed after another candidate withdrew. And Ashley has been stalling Devalier but he can't stall for any longer. Stephen and Ashley meet Devalier and then have a secret meeting with one of the Devalier people. Cooper-Fozard are sitting on a can of worms – but is the PG involved? Annie doesn't make partner and the bottom is starting to fall out her life.▼ \|Aux2= \|LineColor = bfe0bf▼ ▲ \|ShortSummary = It's D-Day for a number of people. Stephen's wife has asked for a divorce and he is meeting with her and her lawyer to start proceedings. Annie has a partner interview but so does Martin, who was short-listed after another candidate withdrew. And Ashley has been stalling Devalier but he can't stall for any longer. Stephen and Ashley meet Devalier and then have a secret meeting with one of the Devalier people. Cooper-Fozard are sitting on a can of worms – but is the PG involved? Annie doesn't make partner and the bottom is starting to fall out her life. ▲\|LineColor = ~~bfe0bf~~FF623B }} \|} ~~==Locations==~~ Trust is set in the [[City of London]] and makes full use of the city's iconic buildings as visual references. Cooper Fozards offices are actually portrayed using two separate buildings for exterior shots, Thomas More Square in [[Wapping]] is portrayed as Cooper Fozard's office building while roof shots (which often provide breaks within episode stories to focus on series spanning themes) are filmed at 1 Poultry. This leads to a confusing affair where to a casual viewer a rectangular building appears to have a triangular roof! Other locations have included [[The Bank of England]] and [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. The series makes constant use of aerial photograph of The City with [[Tower 42]], [[The Gherkin]] (while still under construction), [[Shoreditch]] & [[Hoxton]], [[Lloyd's of London]] and [[Royal Exchange (London)\|The Royal Exchange]] frequently being utilised to set the scene. The title sequence features shots of the City from [[Waterloo Bridge]] and the title banner is displayed over an ultrawide angle shot of the [[Aviva]] building and [[122 Leadenhall Street]] (which is now undergoing demolition) in [[St Andrew Undershaft\|Undershaft]]. ==External links== Line 120 ⟶ 128: *{{IMDb title\|id=0328799\|title=Trust}} ==References== ~~{{DEFAULTSORT:Trust (Tv Series)}}~~ {{reflist}} [[Category:BBC television dramas]] [[Category:2000s British legal television series]] [[Category:~~2000s~~2003 British television series debuts]] [[Category:2003 British television ~~programme~~series ~~debuts~~endings]] [[Category:~~2003~~2000s British ~~television~~drama ~~programme~~television ~~endings~~series]] [[Category:2000s British television miniseries]] [[Category:British English-language television shows]] [[Category:Television shows set in London]]