The Echo


Thanks to Grace:

Clive Owen clipping from The London Sunday Times Culture magazine section dated 20 December 1998

The Echo -- Clive Owen and Joely Richardson

The EchO BBC1 9PM

Told by his editor to interview wealthy Amnanda Powell (Joely Richardson) for an article on London's homeless, Mike Deacon (Clive 0wen) a self-destructive hack becomes suspicious of her motives in paying for the funeral of a vagrant visionary who died in her garage, convinced that he was really her estranged husband. On the evidence of this first instalment, the BBC's latest Minette Walters adaptation is A compilation of clichés - the frosty but vulnerable rich blonde, her smoothy lover, the cocky hack, his nerdish sidekick -- sustained solely by Owen's irresistible swagger. Or have the characters cunningly been made seemingly readable so as to take in the viewer? Only tomorrow's final part tell.