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- Crime thriller The Serpent has become iPlayer’s most popular new BBC programme since Normal People, with 31 million streams across the series so far. The eight-part drama - starring Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle and Ellie Bamber - launched on New Year’s Day and concluded its BBC One run last night.
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Feb 15, 2021 · Crime thriller The Serpent has become iPlayer’s most popular new BBC programme since Normal People, with 31 million streams across the series so far. The eight-part drama - starring Tahar...
Feb 16, 2021 · The Serpent has become BBC iPlayer’s most successful new show since the release of Normal People in April last year. According to the BBC’s viewing figures, The Serpent has been streamed 31 million times across the series since its debut on the BBC’s streaming service.
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The Serpent is inspired by real events and focuses on the pursuit of Charles Sobhraj and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc by Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg in the late 1970s. Sobhraj is played by Tahar Rahim, who has the titular role in Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch's 2021 film The Mauritanian. Rahim said he wanted to play Sobhraj, ha...
Charles Sobhraj is believed to have murdered more than a dozen people, but the exact number is not known. In the book The Life And Crimes Of Charles Sobhraj, Sobhraj confessed to murdering five people in Thailand and two people in Nepal. He also claimed Leclerc and his associate Ajay Chowdhury had carried out some of the murders, but the truth of t...
Charles Sobhraj was arrested in 1976 for drugging a busload of French students in New Delhi, India. He was jailed for various charges and served 20 years, briefly escaping in 1986 after drugging the prison guards with poisoned sweets. He was released from jail in 1997 after the warrant for his extradition to Thailand ran out. He lived in France, wh...
Marie-Andrée Leclerc, who is played by Doctor Who actress Jenna Coleman, was arrested in India alongside Sobhraj in 1976. She denied taking part in Sobhraj's illegal activities and publicly claimed her only love was God. Clarke and Neville wrote that while in jail in India, Leclerc was still very much in love with Sobhraj and passed him secret lett...
Feb 15, 2021 · The Serpent is made by Mammoth Screen, a part of ITV Studios and is a co-production between BBC One and Netflix. The series is available exclusively in the U.K. through the BBC iPlayer.
Feb 15, 2021 · Crime thriller The Serpent has become iPlayer’s most popular new BBC programme since Normal People, with 31 million streams across the series so far. The Serpent’s first episode is also BBC iPlayer’s most streamed episode of anything - across all genres - since Normal People last spring, with over 5.5 million streams on iPlayer alone so far.
Feb 18, 2021 · 18 Feb. Crime thriller The Serpent has become iPlayer’s most popular new BBC programme since Normal People, with 31 million streams across the series so far. The eight-part drama – starring Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle and Ellie Bamber – launched on New Year’s Day and concluded its BBC One run last night.
Feb 17, 2021 · Crime thriller The Serpent has become iPlayer’s most popular new BBC programme since Normal People, with 31 million streams across the series to date. The eight-part drama launched on New Year’s Day and concluded its BBC One run on Valentine’s Day. It starred Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle and Ellie Bamber.
