Trigger Point on ITV: What it's about, cast and where you have seen them before
23.01.2022 - 23:59
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If you've already made your way through the new dramas which arrived shortly into the new year, look no further.
Your next series of choice may just be Trigger Point which begins tonight (Sunday) on ITV.
The six-part thriller centres around the work of the Metropolitan Police Bomb Disposal Squad during a summer bombing campaign.
And it comes from Jed Mercurio, the brains behind Line of Duty and Bodyguard.
Vicky McClure, best known for playing Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in the BBC series Line of Duty and Lol Jenkins in Shane Meadows' film This Is England, plays front line officer Lana Washington, who is an experienced bomb disposal operative, known as an ‘Expo’.
Life and Trauma actor Adrian Lester also stars as Joel Nutkins, who works alongside her.
Both ex-military, the pair are close, having served together in Afghanistan.
The synopsis for Trigger Point continued: "When a terrorist campaign threatens the capital over the summer, the Expos are at the forefront of urgent efforts to find out who is behind the bombings before fatalities escalate….."
Game of Thrones star Mark Stanley will also appear as DI Thom Youngblood.
Viewers may also recognise him for his roles in the films Kajaki and Our Kind of Traitor, as well as TV series Dickensian, Honour, and Anne Boleyn.
Warren Brown, known for playing Danny Maguire in Shameless, Andy Holt in Hollyoaks, and DS Justin Ripley in the BBC crime drama Luther, will play Karl Maguire in Trigger Point.
Netflix's After Life star Kerry Godliman will portray Sonya Reeves, Cal MacAninch, who starred in Des, will play Lee Robins SCO19, Holby City, Skins, and Midsomer Murders actress Manjinder Virk and The Capture Ralph Ineson also make up the cast as Samira Desai SO15 and Commander