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1965 (age 58–59) Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. Nationality. British. Occupation (s) Senior Production Executive, BFI. Years active. 1991 – present. Natascha Wharton (born 1965) is a British film producer and founder of WT 2 Productions, an independent film production company, and subsidiary of Working Title Films .
S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) season 2. The second season of the American action drama television series S.W.A.T. premiered on September 27, 2018, [1] and ended on May 16, 2019, on CBS with 23 episodes.
Natascha Wharton was born in Trinidad, to a Trinidadian father and German mother, and her introduction to cinema was at the local drive-in. Before joining the Film Fund, Natascha worked at Working Title Films, initially in the development department, across titles including Bridget Jones and Elizabeth but in 1999 set up a low budget division to support emerging filmmakers.
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On the night of the State of the Union, an explosion destroys the Capitol Building, killing the President and everyone in the line of succession except for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Thomas Kirkman, who had been named the designated survivor. Kirkman is immediately sworn in, unaware that the attack is just the beginning of what is t...
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1. Kiefer Sutherland as Thomas Adam "Tom" Kirkman, the President of the United States, sworn in following an unprecedented attack on the Capitol building which killed the entire government. He formerly held the office of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Kirkman is elected for a second term at the end of the third season. 2. Natascha McElhone as Alexandra Jane "Alex" Kirkman (seasons 1–2), the First Lady of the United States. Prior to becoming First Lady, Alex was an immigration att...
Development
Designated Survivor was ordered straight to series by ABC in December 2015, with a formal announcement of 13 episodes in May 2016. A month later, ABC revealed that the series would premiere on September 21, 2016.Eight days after the premiere, on September 29, 2016, ABC gave the series a full season order. Created by David Guggenheim, the series is executive produced by Simon Kinberg, Sutherland, Suzan Bymel, Aditya Sood, and Nick Pepper. Paul McGuigan directed the pilot episode. Amy B. Harris...
Writing
Producers Jon Harmon Feldman and Guggenheim described the series as more than one genre, drawing inspiration from other thriller-dramas, with Guggenheim explaining, "There is a West Wing component of a man governing and his team governing our nation at this critical time. It's also the Homeland aspect of investigating the conspiracy. It also has a House of Cardscomponent, which is the characters and the business of government through the eyes of these characters."
Casting
Kiefer Sutherland joined the cast in December 2015, playing Tom Kirkman, the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who suddenly becomes President of the United States.Sutherland had no intention of returning to television; he read the first script of the series and changed his mind, saying, "I remember getting to the end of the script and thinking I was potentially holding the next 10 years of my life in my hands." In February 2016, it was announced that Kal Penn had been c...
Broadcast
Designated Survivor began airing on September 21, 2016, on ABC in the United States, and CTV in Canada. Netflix aired the series outside the United States and Canada, adding the episodes weekly, with distribution handled by eOne. For the third season, Designated Survivor was released globally on Netflix. Before Netflix announced it would release the third season, an agreement had to be reached with Hulu, who held the streaming rights to the first two seasons in the United States; the first tw...
Marketing
A teaser trailer for Designated Survivor was released on May 6, 2016, with the full trailer released on May 17. Producers and some of the cast members promoted the series at San Diego Comic-Conin July 2016, showing a special preview screening with co-stars Maggie Q and Kal Penn in attendance.
Home media
The first season was released on DVD in Region 1 on August 29, 2017. The complete series featuring all three seasons was released on DVD in Region 1 on October 12, 2021.
Critical reception
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave Season 1 of the series an approval rating of 87% based on 62 reviews, with an average rating of 7.07/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Kiefer Sutherland skillfully delivers the drama in Designated Survivor, a fast-paced, quickly engrossing escapist political action fantasy." Metacriticreported a score of 71 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Terri Schwartz from IGN gave the first episode a rating of...
Ratings
The first episode set a record for DVR viewers with 7.67 million, surpassing the September 25, 2014, record of almost 7 million set by the pilot of How to Get Away with Murder.
A South Korean remake titled Designated Survivor: 60 Days, developed by Studio Dragon and produced by DK E&M, premiered on tvN in South Korea and Netflix worldwide on July 1, 2019. Ji Jin-heeportrays the lead role in the series.
Designated Survivor on NetflixDesignated Survivor at IMDb2002. Long Time Dead …. Co-Producer. 2000. Billy Elliot …. Producer. Natascha Wharton is known as an Executive Producer, Producer, Delegated Producer, and Co-Producer. Some of her work includes Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, Billy Elliot, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Ali G Indahouse, Early Man, and Trespass Against Us.
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