Ten years ago the BBC's adaptation of the John Le Carre novel The Night Manager was an Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning sensation which sold in 180 countries around the world. Tom Hiddleston played ex -British Army soldier Jonathan Pine working behind reception in Cairo’s Nefertiti hotel. This was very much not a Premier Inn; Pine always had guest parcels and messages ready at the front desk. In fact he'd already taken a sneak-peek and informed his contacts at MI6 of anything dodgy.
That's how he became embroiled with international arms dealer Richard Roper (aka "the worst man in the world” played by Hugh Laurie) and Olivia Colman, (the MI6 operative Angela Burr who gratefully received Pine's intel back in London).
