- Wire in the Blood
Infobox Television
show_name = Wire in the Blood
caption = Title card from series 4
format = Drama
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picture_format = 16:9
runtime = 60 minutes
creator = Val McDermid
developer =
executive_producer = Sandra Jobling
starring =Robson Green Simone Lahbib
(Series 4-6)Hermione Norris
(Series 1-3)
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country = UK
network =ITV
first_aired = 14 November 2002
last_aired = present
num_episodes = 24 [Last 4 episodes from six season were aired so far only in Polish (onTVP in July and August 2008).]
website =
imdb_id = 0337792
tv_com_id = 15220"Wire in the Blood" is an
ITV television series , based on characters created byVal McDermid , which teams a universityclinical psychologist , Dr. Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill (Robson Green ), with a tough female Detective Inspector, originally Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris ) but replaced by Detective Inspector Alex Fielding (Simone Lahbib ) from series four onwards.Only the first two episodes of the first series, "Mermaids Singing" and "Shadows Rising", are based on McDermid's books, the rest having been written by others. However, the second episode of series four, "Torment", is an adaptation of McDermid's novel "The Torment of Others". The series has appeared in America on the cable channel
BBC America , in Australia on the public channel ABC, inBelgium onCanvas , inEstonia on the public channel ETV, inFinland on TV 1, inSweden on TV4, in France onNT1 , in Germany onZDF , inBrazil onHBO , inPoland onTVP1 and in South-East Asia on the cable channel theHallmark Channel .The title of the series is taken from one of McDermid's novels, but originated as a line in
T. S. Eliot 's poem "Burnt Norton ", one of the "Four Quartets ". Several other McDermid novels also use phrases from Eliot, including the story used for first episode of the series. Both that and the first episode of the fourth series take their names from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ".Plot
The series is set in the fictional town of Bradfield, assumed to lie within
West Yorkshire . However, the filming location is the cityscape and surrounding countryside ofNewcastle upon Tyne andNorthumberland . Each episode usually involves a serial killer.Characters
=Series Three (2005)=2008 Episode
Award nominations
References
External links
*itv.com|id=drama/copsandcrime/wireintheblood|title="Wire in the Blood"
* [http://www.bbcamerica.com/genre/drama_mysteries/wire_in_the_blood/wire_in_the_blood.jsp BBC America's "Wire in the Blood" Page]
* [http://www.robsongreen.com/wire Robson Green - "Wire in the Blood"]
*imdb title|id=0337792|title=Wire in the Blood
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