Lester Back in BBC One’s Hustle

LONDON, June 13: Adrian
Lester returns to the role of Mickey “Bricks” Stone for the fifth season of the
BBC con drama Hustle, which is
slated to premiere next year.

The fifth season of Hustle will start filming in and around London this
summer. Produced by Kudos Film and Television in
association with Red Planet Pictures, the fifth edition also features
the return of Mickey’s fellow con artists, Ash
‘Three Socks’ Morgan and Albert Stroller.

The series’ latest
installment sees Mickey return to a new London following his stint in Australia
selling the Sydney Opera House to an unsuspecting punter. While the credit
crunch has hit Britain hard, a greedy few are still getting richer from the
losses of others; they make the ideal marks for Mickey, who is keen to put new
plans into action to extract their cash.

Hustle is written and created by Tony Jordan, with
additional writing credits for Fintan Ryan (Party
Animals), Tom Butterworth (Birthday
Girl), Marston Bloom (Hotel Babylon) and newcomer Chris Hurford. The lead director is
James Strong (Doctor Who), the
producer is Kerry Appleyard (M.I. High) and the executive producers are Karen Wilson and Simon
Crawford-Collins for Kudos and Tony Jordan for Red Planet Pictures.

Polly Hill, the BBC’s
commissioning editor of independent drama, said: “We are delighted that Adrian Lester returns to Hustle as Mickey Bricks. Tony Jordan's wonderful scripts
see him return to a different London but using the same delicious scams. This
series promises to offer everything that we love about Hustle but with an
exciting new twist.”

—By Irene Lew