{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox television | image = Doingmoney.jpg | image_size = 250 | caption = | genre = Crime drama | creator = | based_on = {{Based on|''Slave''|Jason Johnson}} | developer = | writer = Gwyneth Hughes | director = Lynsey Miller | creative_director = | starring = {{Plainlist| * Anca Dumitra * Allen Leech * Karen Hassan * Alec Secăreanu * Mãlina Manovici * Cosmina Stratan * Dragoș Bucur * Sergiu Costache * Alina Şerban * Voica Oltean * Turlough Convery }} | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = | country = Ireland | language = English | num_seasons = | num_episodes = 1 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = {{Plainlist| * Alex Cooke * Lucy Richer }} | producer = Mike Dormer | cinematography = Neus Ollé | editor = Kristina Hetherington | camera = | runtime = 90 minutes | company = Renegade Pictures | network = {{Plainlist| * BBC Two * RTÉ One }} | first_aired = {{start date|2018|11|5|df=yes}} | last_aired = | related = }}
'''''Doing Money''''' is a British television crime drama, written by Gwyneth Hughes and directed by Lynsey Miller, that was first broadcast on BBC Two on 5 November 2018. Focusing on the subject of modern slavery in the sex trade, the film, starring Anca Dumitra and Allen Leech,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2018/08/bbc-doing-money-gwyneth-hughes-1202455182/|title=BBC Orders Modern Slavery Drama 'Doing Money' From 'The Girl's & 'Vanity Fair's Gwyneth Hughes|first=Peter|last=White|date=31 August 2018|accessdate=7 November 2018}}</ref> is based upon the novel ''Slave'' by Jason Johnson, published on 3 May 2018.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038982/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_4?smid=A7CL6GT0UVQKS&psc=1 |isbn=978-1785038983|title=Slave |author1=Anna |last2=Johnson |first2=Jason |year=2018 }}</ref>
==Synopsis== The film documents the story of 'Ana', a Romanian student training to be a nurse who is kidnapped in broad daylight from the streets of London and ordered to work as a prostitute in a number of brothels in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Casting for the film was announced in August 2018.<ref name="Casting">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/doing-money-casting|title=BBC Two announces the cast for Doing Money, a shocking true story about modern slavery in Britain |work=BBC Press Office |first= |last= |date=31 August 2018 |accessdate=7 November 2018}}</ref> The film was broadcast as part of the BBC's ''Why Slavery?'' season, to coincide with International Anti Slavery Day.<ref name="Review">{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-11-05/doing-money-review-bbc-2-modern-slavery-gwyneth-hughes/|title=Gwyneth Hughes' modern slavery drama Doing Money is almost too tough to watch |work=Radio Times |first=Alison |last=Graham |date=5 November 2018|accessdate=7 November 2018}}</ref>
==Casting== Anca Dumitra said of her role as Ana; “Ana is a truly remarkable person, someone who has survived endless abuse with courage and determination, a real-life hero. I have been deeply moved by her story and it’s an honour to play her in ''Doing Money''. This is a story that needs to be seen.”<ref name="Casting"/>
Allen Leech added; “I’m delighted to be part of telling this moving and important true story. ''Doing Money'', Ana’s experience, shines a light on the shocking truth of human trafficking and slavery in Britain. DI Dougie Grant was one of the key officers at the centre of the original investigation. It’s a real privilege to play him.”<ref name="Casting"/>
==Cast== <!-- Cast and order per opening tombstone credits, roles per closing credits scroll --> {{Cast listing| * Anca Dumitra as Ana * Cosmina Stratan as Ancuta Schwarz * Tom Glynn-Carney as Sean * Voica Oltean as Skinny * Alina Ioana Şerban as Lily * Dragoș Bucur as Ionut Ilie * Alec Secăreanu as Luca * Turlough Convery as Declan * Karen Hassan as DC Rachel Miskelly * Jonathan Harden as DC Liam Partridge * Allen Leech as DI Dougie Grant }}
==Reception== Alison Graham of the ''Radio Times'' wrote; "After watching Gwyneth Hughes’s fact-based drama ''Doing Money'', I went home stifled by a cloud of misery that couldn’t be dispersed, even by the repeats of ancient ''Big Bang Theories'' I watched long into the evening just to try to flush the horror from my system. I found ''Doing Money'' so overwhelming – the true story of Ana, a young Romanian woman working as a cleaner in Britain who was abducted by a trafficking gang from a street in Wood Green London and forced into sex slavery. I was harrowed as she was repeatedly brutalised into submission by a series of men who treated her savagely."<ref name="Review"/>
Viewers described the film as "horrific", "disturbing", "harrowing" and "heartbreaking."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-11-06/doing-money-bbc2-reaction/|title=Viewers left harrowed by BBC2's "brutal" modern slavery drama Doing Money}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|tt8359636}}
{{Gwyneth Hughes}}
Category:2010s British crime television series Category:2010s British drama television series Category:BBC high definition shows Category:BBC television dramas Category:British crime drama television series Category:English-language British television shows Category:Television shows set in London Category:Television shows set in Ireland