Final Demand (BBC One 2003, Tamzin Outhwaite, Liam Cunningham)

In 2 part thriller Final Demand, Natalie Bingham, a clerk at a large telecommunications company works out a scheme to embezzle cheques sent in by customers paying their bills – but for it to work she must marry a man with a surname starting with the letter T.

At the time Tamzin Outhwaite had recently left Eastenders and was gearing up to be a major player for the BBC which she was pretty much for the rest of the decade. Simon Pegg pops up in a straight role, he had already made Spaced by this stage and the following year would have a major breakthrough with Shaun of the Dead.

production details
UK / BBC One / 2×90 minute episode / Broadcast 20-21 April 2003

Writer: Deborah Moggach / Executive Producer: Kate Harwood / Producer: Joy Spink / Director: Tom Vaughan

cast
Tamzin Outhwaite as Natalie Bingham
Liam Cunningham as David Milner
Hazel Ellerby as Sandra Milner
Demelza Randall as Chloe Milner
Simon Pegg as Colin Taylor
Dorian Healy as Philip Tomlinson
Matthew Chambers as Kieran Turner
Archie Panjabi as Farida
Tabitha Wady as Annie
Harriet Thorpe as Mrs Roe
Steph Bramwell as Colin’s Mother
Jean Warren as Natalie’s Mother