ITV Drama "Mobile" Bizare storyline OT or OTT?

ITV have been running trailers for a new 3 part drama called "Mobile"
to be shown soon. Trailer features a mobile phone engineer who has a
brain tumour which he blames on his job, a mobile phone mast being
blown up and some connection with the Iraq war.
No information can be found on the ITV.com web site but after some
searching, I found the whole synopsis on
http://sixtyplusurfers.co.uk/life.html (!)

I'll look forward to counting the number of mobile phone ads shown
around this series!

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Mobile
A new Conspiracy Thriller
Mid March, ITV1

Mobile is a new conspiracy thriller for ITV1 which unfolds against the
backdrop of the Iraq war and the corrupt world of the multi billion
pound mobile phone industry, flashing back and forth to retrace events
from three very different perspectives: the engineer, the soldier and
the boss.

Each episode features the same story told from a different viewpoint
and only in the final scenes of the third episode is the connection
between all three stories made for the first time.

Episode one tells the story of Eddie Doig, The Engineer. Eddie (Neil
Fitzmaurice) is a mobile phone engineer who has been diagnosed with a
brain tumour and has only a few months left to live. His wife Donna
(Julie Graham) and children Keith and Steven are distraught yet
determined that Eddie will enjoy his last few months. But Eddie
blames working as a mobile phone engineer at Corsoncom for causing the
tumour and is determined to get revenge from them.

A young man is shot at point blank range for using his mobile phone
while driving and a Corsoncom mobile phone mast in Wigan is blown-up.
Then, when a gunman shoots a phone using passenger and then the driver
of an inter-city train, police make a connection between the three
events and name Eddie as their number one suspect, but Eddie can’t
remember a thing about any of the incidents.

Episode two is the story of The Soldier, Maurice Stoan. Maurice Stoan
(Jamie Draven) is an ex-soldier whose wife and young son are
tragically killed in a car accident. The driver of the other car was
using a mobile phone and he has never been found. Maurice can’t rest
until he has revenge. As his story unfolds, we learn that Eddie was
hypnotised in order to carry out the murders, but by whom?

In episode three, the finger of suspicion points to David West
(Michael Kitchen), the communications magnate who lost not only his
company, but his only daughter through depression and suicide because
of the ruthless and seemingly untouchable Sir James Corson (Keith
Allen), chairman of Corsoncom.

In this third and final episode, the person responsible for the
hit-and-run death of Maurice Stoan’s family is finally identified and
the real mastermind behind the whole mobile phone terror campaign is
revealed.

Executive Producer Kieran Roberts, Controller of ITV Drama, describes
Mobile as, “A multi-layered story of conspiracy and deception. John
Fay has done a fantastic job of inter-weaving these three stories so
superbly. 50 million people in the UK own a mobile phone, but watching
Mobile will leave them questioning whether they really do need or want
to make that call.”

Mobile also features Samantha Bond as Rachel, David West’s wife;
Eithne Brown as Maurice Stoan’s mother, Brenda; John Thomson as Ray
Bould, Eddie Doig’s therapist; Russell Boulter as DS John Goddard;
Shaun Dooley and Sunetra Sarker as police officers Inspector George
Fleming and Lorraine Conil; John McArdle as Paul Stoan and Peter
Vaughan as Maurice’s grandfather.

Mobile is a three part drama to be screened on ITV1.. Each 90 minute
episode is written by John Fay (Coronation Street, Clocking Off) and
directed by Stuart Orme (Ghostboat, Cold Blood). Gina Cronk (Blue
Murder, New Tricks) is the Producer and the Executive Producer is
Kieran Roberts.

Granada International holds worldwide distribution rights.