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    • Source: The Nativity (TV series)

      • The Nativity is a 2010 British four-part drama television series. The series is a re-telling of the Nativity of Jesus and was broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD across four days, starting on 20 December 2010. It was rebroadcast in two hour-long parts on the mornings of 24 and 25 December 2011 and across four days starting on 19 December 2016.
      The series stars Tatiana Maslany as Mary; Andrew Buchan as Joseph; Neil Dudgeon as Joachim; Claudie Blakley as Anna; Peter Capaldi as Balthasar; and John Lynch as Gabriel.


      Cast


      Tatiana Maslany as Mary
      Andrew Buchan as Joseph
      Neil Dudgeon as Joachim
      Peter Capaldi as Balthasar
      John Lynch as Gabriel
      Claudie Blakley as Anne
      Gawn Grainger as Levi
      Obi Abili as Gaspar
      Jack Shepherd as Melchior
      Al Weaver as Thomas
      Ruth Negga as Leah
      Howard Samuels as Tax Collector
      Ken Bones as Bethlehem Rabbi
      Frances Barber as Elizabeth
      Art Malik as Nicholas
      Vincent Regan as Herod
      David Sterne as Abimael
      Sadie Shimmin as Salome
      Helen Schlesinger as Rachel
      Matthew Deslippe as Innkeeper


      Production


      Tony Jordan started writing the script in 2007. At the time, he did not believe in the Nativity story, but said that since writing The Nativity, his opinion changed. He was asked to produce the series after discussing new projects with BBC Wales in Cardiff, but his meeting got mixed up with another, where they wanted to create a follow-up to The Passion. Jordan was asked what he would do with the Nativity and he pitched what he called a "ridiculous notion" of a story centred on the Inn in Bethlehem, which he compared to the BBC 1980s sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!. Jordan forgot about the idea but received a telephone call from the BBC a week later asking him to produce a script.
      Filming lasted a month and took place in Ouarzazate, Morocco. Capaldi, Shepherd and Abili almost missed filming due to air travel disruption after the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland.


      Reception


      The first episode was watched by 5.21 million viewers, an audience share of 20.3%.
      Sam Wollaston of The Guardian praised the series, saying: "[W]hat is nice about this new telling of an old story: it will resonate, and it's relevant. It's very human, too, because that's what it's about, the characters and what happens to them and between them, rather than the message. In short, it's not preachy, and that's a relief."


      See also


      List of Christmas films


      References




      External links


      The Nativity at BBC Online
      The Nativity at Temple Street Productions
      The Nativity at IMDb

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