Director: Adrian Shergold
Script: Russell T. Davies
Photography: David Odd
Editor: Tony Cranstoun
Music: Murray Gold
Sound: Dennis Cartwright
Casting: Beverley Keogh
Principal Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Lesley Sharp, Peter Armitage, Ahsen Bhatti, Annabelle Apsion, William Travis, Mark Benton, Peter Wright
Producer: Ann Harrison-Baxter
Executive Producers: Nicola Shindler, Russell T. Davies
Production: Red Production Company for ITV1
Distribution: Carlton International
Tel: 0044 207 224 333 9
Fax: 0044 207 486 170 7
Internet: www.carltonint.co.uk
First Broadcast: 09.02.03, 21.00, ITV1, 6.3 mill.
Selected Filmography Adrian Shergold: Hold The Back Page, 1985; Will You Love Me Tomorrow, 1987; Close Relations, 1990; Stalag Luft, 1993; Devil’s Advocate,1995; Births, Marriages And Deaths, 1999; Swallow, 2001.
The good news: Steve Baxter, who works in a video shop in Manchester, is the Messiah, the Second Coming of Christ. The bad news: Mankind has just 5 days to put together a third Testament, or Judgment Day will dawn. With the disarming naiveté of an agnostic, Russell T. Davies (“Queer as Folk”, “Bob & Rose”) poses an existential human question: What happens when religious doctrine ‘becomes flesh’ in an irrefutable form? This structure provides the basis for Adrian Shergold’s intelligent, challenging and suspenseful thriller which manages to avoid the usual mystery clichés. Thought provoking series television; a mini-miracle.