Jericho (British TV series)

This article is about the 2005 ITV drama. For the 2006 CBS television drama, see Jericho (2006 TV series). For the unrelated 2016 ITV drama, see Jericho (2016 TV series).

Jericho
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GenreCrime
Period drama
Created byStewart Harcourt
Developed byGranada Television
Directed byNicholas Renton
Diarmuid Lawrence
Tom Shankland
StarringRobert Lindsay
David Troughton
Ciarán McMenamin
Nicholas Jones
Lydia Leonard
ComposerDominik Scherrer
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes4 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producersRebecca Eaton
Damien Timmer
Michele Buck
ProducerCameron McAllister
Production locationsState Theatre, Grays, Essex, England, UK
Running time120 minutes (including adverts)
Production companiesGranada Television
WGBH Boston
Original release
NetworkITV
Release16 October (2005-10-16) –
6 November 2005 (2005-11-06)
Related
Foyle's War
Fabian of the Yard
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Jericho is a British period crime drama series, first broadcast as a series of four episodes on ITV from 16 October 2005. The series was written and created by Stewart Harcourt, and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, a Scotland Yard detective who is loved by the public but embarrassed by his status as a hero. Because of his fame, a TV series, based on his career, is in development, paralleling the real-life TV series Fabian of the Yard which fictionalized the career of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian. The series is set in London in 1958. The series was seen as an attempt to exploit ITV's success in period crime drama, best exemplified by Foyle's War, and to rival the BBC's staple dramas such as Waking the Dead.[1][2]

The first episode drew in 5.9 million viewers, but this quickly fell to 4.7 million for the second episode, significantly less than its BBC rival.[3] Critical response to the series was cautious,[4] and a second series was not commissioned. The series was later shown in the United States in 2006 and 2007 under the title Jericho of Scotland Yard as part of the PBS Mystery! series, and was also broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2008.

  1. ^ Deans, Jason (14 November 2003). "Detective drama lures Lindsay to ITV". Media Guardian. Retrieved 16 November 2007.
  2. ^ Gibson, Owen (14 September 2005). "ITV's big hope for Sunday nights". Media Guardian. Retrieved 16 November 2007.
  3. ^ Plunkett, John (24 October 2005). "Jericho's audience comes tumbling down". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 November 2007.
  4. ^ Banks-Smith, Nancy (17 October 2005). "The weekend's TV". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 November 2007.