The Night Manager

At one stage much earlier, this production was going to be a major cinema movie with a theatrical release with Dustin Hoffman starring and the late Sydney Pollack directing. The pair previously collaborated on Tootsie (1982).

The production has been reported in the media to be the most expensive ever television drama in the history of the BBC produced by them.

The mini-series was filmed in six countries: [in alphabetical order] Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.