“When they said, ‘Wait in the green room’, I wasn’t expecting it to be this green!”
At its heart, it’s a police story,” explains Lupin screenwriter George Kay, unpacking his new David Tennant-fronted ITVX drama Litvinenko. “The British police are presented with a unique challenge: a living murder victim tells them ‘I’ve been murdered, let me tell you who did it and what I think happened before I die,’” he reveals. “I was excited by the opportunity, but also struck by the responsibility of it taking it on.”