Officers have issued an urgent appeal for help finding a Salford man who disappeared yesterday morning. Greater Manchester Police says Andrew was last seen at around 6.30pm on Thursday, September 14.
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K.J. Yossman “The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies,” the new BBC drama from transatlantic production company Sister, is deeper than your run-of-the-mill con-man drama. Created by sisters Penelope and Ginny Skinner, the five-part series stars “Sex Education” head Alistair Petrie as perennially successful con artist Rob.
But when his former wife Alice (Rebekah Staton) joins forces with his current mark Cheryl (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), Rob quickly loses control of the situation. Control, in “Pack of Lies,” is a key theme. “Penny and Ginny had been really interested in how there is a crossover and a pattern of behaviours that you see in con cases and in domestic abuse cases,” says Sister executive producer Lydia Hampson.
“Coercive control, gaslighting, elements of narcissism.” The show, which airs in the U.K. on Aug. 29 and is being sold globally by BBC Studios, went through development early in the pandemic, when there was suddenly a surge of interest in con artists (“It felt like, ‘Oh, wow, this is everywhere,’” Hampson says of the numerous podcasts and documentaries that sprung up about con men, such as “The Tinder Swindler”) and, at the same time, the U.K.
toughened up domestic abuse laws to include coercive control. Despite the various real-world influences informing the themes of the show, the character of Rob is not a composite of any real con men. “With a fictional story you can have more scope to push the envelope on how big a character might go or how unusual the thing might be,” says Hampson.
Officers have issued an urgent appeal for help finding a Salford man who disappeared yesterday morning. Greater Manchester Police says Andrew was last seen at around 6.30pm on Thursday, September 14.
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