Ambassadors

The Scottish Sunday Herald has a mixed review of the first episode of Ambassadors, but has the following comment about Matthew's POD:

Particularly amusing was Matthew Macfadyen, a wonderful, changeable, attractive actor who is now inheriting all the roles that Hugh Grant used to be good at. In Ambassadors, he played a slick, slicked-down, supremely confident Tory minister who wants to secure a £2 billion helicopter deal with the Tazbeks pretty much at all costs.

(thanks for finding the review Jodi!)

Ambassadors with Keeley Hawes and Matthew Macfadyen (as the Prince of Darkness) begins tonight on BBC Two! Here's a clip from the first episode!

BBC Media has posted a behind the scenes look at the upcoming Ambassadors for BBC Two.  If you live in the UK, you can view the video HERE.

They are a team under constant, competing pressures: pressures from London keen to ensure UK PLC doesn't miss out on lucrative business contracts in an emerging oil rich nation; pressure from his under-funded, under-resourced embassy struggling to maintain an image of Britain as an important global political heavyweight; and pressure to maintain good relations with a rigid, autocratic local regime with a dubious human rights record.

Matthew Macfayden plays POD – nicknamed the 'Prince of Darkness' – British Ambassador Keith Davis’s (played by David Mitchell) superior at the Foreign Office in London.  Matthew is listed as part of the ensemble cast rather than a guest star.

Ambassadors begins on BBC Two at 9 pm on 23rd October.  For more information on the first episode you can visit this link.