Othello

Produced to air on PBS's acclaimed MASTERPIECE THEATRE series, this modern updating of Shakespeare's famed tragedy focuses on the racial tensions within in the text. Adapted by lauded screenwriter Andrew Davies (BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY), this Othello centers around John Othello (OZ's Eamonn Walker), the first black police commissioner in London. Having risen above his former mentor, Ben Jago, Othello is threatened by the racial crisis that is brewing around him as well as Jago's violent jealousy of him.