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City Homicide 
2007–2011 opening title cardFormat Police, drama, crime Created by John Hugginson
John BanasStarring Shane Bourne
Nadine Garner
Aaron Pedersen
Ryan O'Kane
Daniel MacPherson
Damien Richardson
Nadia Townsend
John Adam
Noni Hazlehurst
David FieldCountry of origin Australia Language(s) English No. of seasons 5 (including mini-series) No. of episodes 79 (List of episodes) Production Executive producer(s) John Holmes Producer(s) MaryAnne Carroll Running time approx 45 minutes
(1 hour with ads)Broadcast Original channel Seven Network Picture format 576i (SDTV),
1080i (HDTV)Original run 27 August 2007 – 30 March 2011 External links Website 
2007 City Homicide cast
City Homicide was an Australian television drama series that aired on the Seven Network between 27 August 2007 – 30 March 2011. The series was set on the Homicide floor of a metropolitan police headquarters in Melbourne. The main characters were six detectives, who solve the murder cases, and their three superior officers.[1]
City Homicide did not return in its regular format in 2011.[2] A six-episode mini-series titled No Greater Honour was shown instead which marked the closing storyline of the series.[3] The mini-series guest starred Claire Van Der Boom, Marcus Graham, John Howard, and Graeme Blundell.[4]
Contents
Cast
Main cast
Actor/actress Character Rank Tenure Episodes Noni Hazlehurst Bernice Waverley Commander 2007–2011 001–present Shane Bourne Stanley Wolfe Detective Senior Sergeant 2007–2011 001–present Nadine Garner Jennifer Mapplethorpe Detective Senior Constable 2007–2011 001–present Aaron Pedersen Duncan Freeman Detective Senior Constable 2007–2011 001–present Damien Richardson Matt Ryan Detective Sergeant 2007–2011 001–present Nadia Townsend Allie Kingston Detective Senior Constable 2009–2011 037–present John Adam Nick Buchanan Detective Senior Constable 2009–2011 041–present Ryan O'Kane Rhys Levitt Detective Senior Constable 2010–2011 064–present Semi-regular cast
Actor/actress Character Tenure David Field Detective Superintendent Terry Jarvis 2007–2011 Tasma Walton Detective Senior Sergeant Claudia Leigh 2009–2011 Louise Crawford Sergeant Karen Hatzic 2007–2011 Miles Paras Senior Constable Phillippa Stern 2008–2011 Carolyn Bock Linda Wolfe 2007–2011 Meredith Penman Emma Treadgold 2008–2011 Genevieve Morris Dr. Rhonda 'Ronnie' Lafferty 2008–2011 Gil Tucker Dr. Sam 'Mack The Knife' McIntyre 2007–2011 Fiona Corke Judith Welling 2007–2011 Cameron Nugent Senior Constable Paul Winston 2007–2011 Senior Constable Todd Crost
Former cast
- Daniel MacPherson as Detective Senior Constable Simon Joyner (2007–2010)
- William Jarratt as Josh Waverly (2007–2009)
- Marshall Napier as Detective Senior Sergeant Wilton Sparkes (2007–2008,2010)
- Mark Hennessy as Senior Sergeant James Cotton (Bernice's PA) (2007)
- John McTernan as Assistant Commissioner (Crime Dept) Bill Mulholland (2007)
- Alyce Platt as Lorraine Sparkes (2007)
- Vince Colosimo as Ernie Calbrese (2007)
- Jasper Bagg as Barry Shadow (2007)
- Kat Stewart as Claire Jackson (2007)
- Alejandro Rubilar as Peter Grout (2007)
Special guest cast
- Blair McDonough as Cameron Gunning (2008)
- Craig McLachlan as Leon Grasby (2008)
- Georgie Parker as Susan Blake (2010)
- Martin Sacks as Daniel Worthington (2010)
Production
The show's co-writers are John Hugginson who has previously worked on Water Rats, Murder Call and Blue Heelers, and John Banas who has written for All Saints and Stingers in addition to Water Rats and Blue Heelers. In an interview with the Herald Sun, Banas told of how the show had been in planning since "late last millennium".
The bulk of City Homicide is shot at Seven's South Melbourne studios and the show features Melbourne landmarks, such as Flinders Street Station and the city's trams.
The series is distributed overseas by Southern Star Group.[5]
Ratings
Television ratings
in Australia1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 Television in Australia Series ratings
The following table's ratings and rankings are subject to change as more episodes are broadcast.
Season Episodes Series
timeslotSeries
premiereSeries
finalPeak
audience (in millions)Average
audience (in millions)Average
nightly rankAverage
weekly rank1 14 Monday 8:30pm 28 August 2007 19 November 2007 1.763 1.611 # # 2 22 Monday/Sunday 8:30pm 30 June 2008 29 March 2009 1.888 1.506 #4 # 3 18 Monday/Wednesday 8:30pm 10 August 2009 25 November 2009 1.389 1.315 #5 #16 4 24 Wednesday 8:30pm 14 July 2010 16 February 2011 No Greater Honour 6 Wednesday 8:30pm 23 February 2011[6] 30 March 2011 Weekly ratings
The following table shows the weekly ratings for the series. Season two has been split into two parts as season two aired in two television seasons.
The data is based on the five Metropolitan markets only.
# (Series) # Episode AU air date Timeslot Viewers (m)[7] Nightly
rankWeekly
rankSeason 1[8][9] 1 1 "In the Hands of Giants (Part 1)" 28 August 2007 8:30pm
Monday1.648 2 2 "In the Hands of Giants (Part 2)" 1.648 3 3 "Lie Down with Dogs" 3 September 2007 1.717 4 4 "The Return" 10 September 2007 1.401 5 5 "Ripe Fruits In The Garden" 17 September 2007 1.562 6 6 "Envelope Day" 24 September 2007[1] 1.287 7 7 "Baby Love" 1 October 2007 1.762 8 8 "Victims Of Crime" 8 October 2007 1.635 9 9 "Family Planning" 15 October 2007 1.695 10 10 "The Promised Land" 22 October 2007 1.570 11 11 "Serious Men" 29 October 2007 1.583 12 12 "Cut and Dried" 5 November 2007 1.559 13 13 "Rostered Day Off" 12 November 2007 1.722 14 14 "Raising The Dead" 19 November 2007 1.763 Season 2[10][11] 15 1 "Thicker Than Water" 30 June 2008 8:30pm
Monday1.611 2 16 2 "Somersaulting Dogs" 7 July 2008 1.583 1 17 3 "In House" 14 July 2008 1.601 1 18 4 "Taniwha" 21 July 2008 1.571 2 19 5 "Guilty As Charged" 28 July 2008 1.533 4 20 6 "Reward" 25 August 2008 1.888 1 21 7 "Golden" 1 September 2008 1.698 3 22 8 "Life After Death" 8 September 2008 1.789 1 23 9 "Never To Be Released" 15 September 2008 1.854 1 24 10 "Examination Day" 22 September 2008 1.506 4 25 11 "Oh Lucky Man" 29 September 2008 1.670 1 26 12 "Spoils of War" 6 October 2008 1.701 1 27 13 "Jury Duty" 13 October 2008 1.429 4 28 14 "Jane Doe" 20 October 2008 1.446 5 29 15 "Junkie" 8 February 2009 8:30pm
Sunday1.361 7 19 30 16 "Stolen Sweets" 15 February 2009 1.201 8 21 31 17 "The Forgotten" 22 February 2009 1.086 8 29 32 18 "A Green Light" 1 March 2009 1.253 5 18 33 19 "House of Horrors" 8 March 2009 1.189 5 21 34 20 "The Cutting Edge" 15 March 2009 1.165 10 26 35 21 "Rage" 22 March 2009 1.203 9 22 36 22 "Life and Death" 29 March 2009 1.307 6 20 Season 3 37 1 "The Money Shot" 10 August 2009 8:30pm
Monday1.321 5 16 38 2 "Meet and Greet" 10 August 2009 1.142 11 34 39 3 "Chop Shop" 17 August 2009 1.389 3 10 40 4 "The First Stone" 24 August 2009 1.334 3 9 41 5 "Thai Take Away" 31 August 2009 1.389 3 9 42 6 "The Confession" 7 September 2009 1.262 6 11 43 7 "Little Big Man" 14 September 2009 1.189 8 23 44 8 "Time of Your Life" 16 September 2009 8:30pm
Wednesday1.175 6 24 45 9 "Diggers" 23 September 2009 1.154 8 46 10 "Blood Trail" 30 September 2009 0.796 14 47 11 "Hot House" 7 October 2009 0.876 15 48 12 "Baker's Dozen = 13" 14 October 2009 1.032 13 49 13 "Smokescreen" 21 October 2009 0.989 10 50 14 "Mission Statement" 28 October 2009 1.192 6 51 15 "Dead Weight" 4 November 2009 1.161 8 52 16 "Big Bang Theory" 11 November 2009 1.130 5 53 17 "In Wolf's Clothing" 18 November 2009 1.021 10 54 18 "Whistleblower" 25 November 2009 1.010 10 55 19 Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! 14 July 2010 8:30pm
Wednesday0.936 12 45 56 20 Good Cop/Bad Cop 14 July 2010 0.936 12 45 57 21 Flight Risk 21 July 2010 0.808 16 51 58 22 Protection 28 July 2010 0.911 17 49 59 23 Ratters 4 Aug 2010 0.923 16 53 60 24 Last Seen 11 Aug 2010 1.007 15 40 61 25 No Smoke 18 Aug 2010 0.948 15 44 62 26 In Harm's way 25 Aug 2010 0.771 23 77 Season 4 63 1 The Hit 1 Sep 2010 0.903 20 52 64 2 Just Desserts 8 Sep 2010 0.851 16 51 65 3 Pirates 15 Sep 2010 0.824 19 82 66 4 Tomato Can 22 Sep 2010 1.014 12 ^ Episode six was broadcast on Monday 24 September in Sydney and Brisbane as per usual but was broadcast in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth on Wednesday 26 September due to the broadcast of the 2007 Brownlow Medal count.
DVD releases
Series 1, 2 and 3 of City Homicide are now available on DVD. Season 3 DVD includes the first 8 episodes of Season 4. The Season 4 DVD includes the remainder of season 4 episodes plus the 6 part mini-series No Greater Honour.
Season Date released # of episodes # of discs Special features The Complete 1st Series 2 September 2009 14 4 Slipcase Packaging The Complete 2nd Series 1 July 2010 22 6 Slipcase Packaging The Complete 3rd Series 18 November 2010[12] 26 6 Slipcase Packaging The Complete 4th Series 21 April 2011[13] 22 5 Slipcase Packaging City Homicide: No Greater Honour TBA 6 TBA TBA Episodes
Main article: List of City Homicide episodesBroadcast and distribution
Country Network Airs Australia Seven Network Wednesdays 9:30pm Estonia Fox Crime[14] France France 3 Fridays 11:25pm Ireland RTÉ One Sundays 4.30am Netherlands Veronica Norway TVNorge Canada Super Channel Thursdays 10 p.m. Africa Daar Communications New Zealand TV ONE Mondays 10:55pm Iran Channel 1 Sunday 10:15pm References
- ^ http://www.australiantelevision.net/city_homicide/
- ^ http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/why-local-cop-shows-are-losing-the-beat-20101201-18fuu.html
- ^ http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/03/city-homicide-finale.html
- ^ http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/10/axed-city-homicide.html
- ^ Chai, Paul. Southern Star steals Seven's 'City', Variety, 15 May 2007.
- ^ http://www.australiantelevision.net/city_homicide/series4.html
- ^ http://www.tvtonight.com.au/category/ratings Ratings 2009
- ^ http://www.tv.com/city-homicide/show/74552/episode.html
- ^ http://www.tv.com/city-homicide/show/74552/episode.html
- ^ http://www.tvtonight.com.au/category/ratings Ratings for 08
- ^ http://www.tvtonight.com.au/category/ratings Ratings for 08
- ^ http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/816128
- ^ http://www.atlanticdvd.com.au/films/show/111862
- ^ Melbourne´i mõrvarühm
9^ http://www.yourtv.com.au/blog.aspx?blogentryid=728132&showcomments=true
External links
- Official website
- City Homicide at The TV IV
- City Homicide at the Australian Television Information Archive
- City Homicide at the Internet Movie Database
- City Homicide at TV.com
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