Roadkill is a British four-part television political intrigue thriller written and created by David Hare, and directed by Michael Keillor. The series was made by The Forge production studio for the BBC, co-financed by Masterpiece in association with All3Media International. It was first broadcast in the UK on BBC One on 18 October 2020. In the United States, it was broadcast as part of the Masterpiece anthology series on PBS starting on 1 November 2020.
The series stars Hugh Laurie as the populist Conservative politician, Peter Laurence, freshly promoted to the middle-ranking Justice Secretary and on the up, after just dodging a scandal by winning a major libel case in the High Court against a national newspaper, but whose private life is under fire from his family â including an imprisoned illegitimate daughter, who has just come to light â as well as his political foes. Primary amongst his political friends and enemies is the embattled Prime Minister Dawn Ellison played by Helen McCrory in her final performance before her death in April 2021.
The series was filmed on location in London and Hastings.
Roadkill was released on DVD and blu-ray in the UK by Dazzler Media in 2021.