The Take

About The Take

Freddie Jackson is released from prison in 1984 having served a four-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife Jackie, who has been waiting for him on the outside in the mistaken belief that that he wants to go straight, soon finds herself disappointed: Freddie is in fact raring to get back into the game and has set his sights on becoming top dog in the East End underworld.

The Take is an action-adventure series that ran on Sky One.

It ran for one season of 4 episodes between June 2009 and July 2009.

Shaun Evans stars as Jimmy, Tom Hardy as Freddie, Charlotte Riley as Maggie, and Kierston Wareing as Jackie. It comes from Company Pictures, Element Pictures, and Sky 1.

In the United States it streams on fuboTV. TMDB voters put it at 7.5 out of 10 across 91 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.