Messiah (British TV series)
2001-2008 UK television series directed by Boris Starling / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Messiah is a British television drama series, broadcast on the BBC One network and produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland, although the series itself is set in England. Made up of a series of occasional serials, the first, with two parts subtitled The First Killings & The Reckoning, was broadcast in 2001. It has been followed by Messiah 2: Vengeance is Mine (2003), Messiah III: The Promise (2004), Messiah IV: The Harrowing (2005) and most recently Messiah V: The Rapture (2008). The original production was based on a novel by Boris Starling: the subsequent instalments have been written directly for television. Starling has a cameo as a murder victim's corpse in the first serial.
Messiah | |
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Genre | Crime drama |
Created by | Boris Starling |
Starring | Ken Stott Neil Dudgeon Frances Grey Michelle Forbes Kieran O'Brien Art Malik Marc Warren Jamie Draven |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 5 |
No. of episodes | 11 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer | Lizzie Mickery |
Running time | 75 min. (Series 1–3) 60 min. (Series 4–5) |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 26 May 2001 (2001-05-26) – 21 January 2008 (2008-01-21) |
A crime series, it follows the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe, who often investigates particularly gruesome murders. Metcalfe is played by Scottish actor Ken Stott, and the other main regulars in the series are Kate Beauchamp (Frances Grey), Duncan Warren (Neil Dudgeon) and Metcalfe's wife Susan (Michelle Forbes). The deafness of Forbes' character necessitated both her and Stott learning British Sign Language for their characters' frequent exchanges.