State of Play (TV series)

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

2003 British Conspiracy Thriller Miniseries starring David Morrissey as Stephen Collins, a rising star MP whose researcher dies on The London Underground, and John Simm as Cal McCaffrey, an old friend of Collins' who managed his first election campaign and now works as the reporter investigating her death. What starts out as a tabloidy hatchet job quickly turns out to be the tip of a very big iceberg, and the reporters manage to uncover all sorts of unwholesome facts about the government.

Directed by pre-Harry Potter David Yates. Later adapted into a film starring Russell Crowe.

Tropes used in State of Play (TV series) include: