- Gideon's Daughter
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director =Stephen Poliakoff
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starring =Bill Nighy Miranda Richardson Emily Blunt
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language = English
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executive_producer =Peter Fincham Stephen Poliakoff David M. Thompson
producer =Nicholas Brown Nicolas Brown Helen Flint
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editor =Clare Douglas
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location =Edinburgh, Scotland London, England
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first_run =2005
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tv_com_id ="Gideon's Daughter" is the second of two linked
BBC television drama s written and directed byStephen Poliakoff .Produced independently for the BBC by
talkbackTHAMES and starringBill Nighy ,Miranda Richardson , andEmily Blunt , it aired in the UK onBBC One onFebruary 26 ,2006 and in the US onBBC America a month later. The first of the dramas, "Friends and Crocodiles ", had been broadcast the previous month, with the character of Sneath (Robert Lindsay) appearing in both and acting as the narrator of "Gideon's Daughter". The Mini series was watch by 10.2 million viewers.Both Nighy and Blunt received
Golden Globe Awards for their performances.The production won aPeabody Award in April 2007Story
Exploring themes of love, loss, parenthood, and the cult of celebrity, it is set against the backdrop of
New Labour 's rise to power, the death ofPrincess Diana , and the ill-advised development of theMillennium Dome . Gideon is a hotshotpublicist and the widowed father of a sullen teenage daughter, driven to the edge of a nervous breakdown by her emotional detachment from him. She is resentful that he was a serialadulterer who was calling his mistress as her mother lay dying ofcancer . To put distance between them, she at first plans to do volunteer work in South America or (her father's preferred choice) to study at theUniversity of Edinburgh .Stella is mourning the death of her young son, killed while riding his bike for the first time. Afraid of sleep, and desperate to escape her sense of bereavement, she works the night shift in a
supermarket where she raisesguinea pigs in the back. She meets Gideon when her ex-husband tries to accost one of Gideon's clients, a New Labour minister, about the government's lack of response to the unsafe traffic conditions that caused their son's death. Soon after the chance meeting, the two find themselves developing an emotional bond, brought together by a shared sense of grief and loss.External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/poliakoff/gideonsdaughter/ "Gideon's Daughter"] at
bbc.co.uk
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0487907/ "Gideon's Daughter" at IMDb]
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