Overview
- ITV News anchor Tom Bradby said in a new Radio Times interview that he took three months off work in 2018 after what he calls a breakdown.
- He has said the absence followed severe insomnia and what he described as a dependence on a sleeping pill.
- Bradby linked that period to writing his novel Secret Service, which he says poured out faster than his other books and reflected his state of mind through its lead character.
- ITV has adapted Secret Service into a five-part thriller starring Gemma Arterton as MI6 officer Kate Henderson, with Rafe Spall also starring.
- The series follows Henderson on MI6’s Russia Desk as she probes signs a senior UK politician could be a Russian asset, with ITV billing high-stakes espionage ahead of its ITV1 and ITVX release.