The Salisbury Poisonings


The Salisbury Poisonings is a three-part fact-based television drama, starring Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall and Annabel Scholey which portrays the 2018 Novichok poisoning crisis in Salisbury, England, and the subsequent Amesbury poisonings. The series was broadcast on BBC One in June 2020, and was created by Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn for Dancing Ledge Productions.

Plot overview

On 4 March 2018, emergency services receive a call to attend to Sergei and Yulia Skripal who have been found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury city centre.

Cast

Reception

Writing in The Guardian, Lucy Mangan praised the show's script and direction as being "admirably restrained", and compared the calm actions of its characters facing a "new normal" to the reactions of the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Distribution

Worldwide distribution is handled by Fremantle. In June 2020 it was announced that AMC signed an agreement with Fremantle to exclusively broadcast the show in the United States.