The Fear (2012 TV series)

The Fear
GenreCrime drama
Created byRichard Cottan
Directed byMichael Samuels
StarringPeter Mullan
Harry Lloyd
Paul Nicholls
Anastasia Hille
Danny Sapani
Nigel Lindsay
Richard E. Grant
Theme music composerDan Jones
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes4 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producersRichard Cottan
Simon Heath
Paul Stevens
ProducerTim Bricknell
CinematographyGavin Finney
Running time60 minutes
Production companiesWorld Productions
BBC Worldwide
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release3 December (2012-12-03) –
6 December 2012 (2012-12-06)
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The Fear is a four-part drama television series created by Richard Cottan, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 3 December 2012.[1][2] The series, broadcast over four consecutive nights, stars Peter Mullan as Brighton-based criminal kingpin Richie Beckett, who finds himself waging war on an Albanian sex trafficking gang trying to muscle in on his turf, whilst dealing with the onset symptoms of dementia.[3]

The Fear stars Harry Lloyd and Paul Nicholls as Richie's children, Matty and Cal, and Anastasia Hille as his wife, Jo.[4] The series averaged an audience of 1.25 million viewers across its four-night run.[5] The series' cinematography by Gavin Finney won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Photography & Lighting: Fiction at the 2013 British Academy Television Craft Awards.[6] The series has been released on DVD in Europe, but remains unreleased on home media in the UK.[7]

  1. ^ "The Fear, Channel 4, review". Telegraph. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  2. ^ "The Fear". World Productions. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  3. ^ "The Fear" – via Amazon.
  4. ^ Geoghegan, Kev (3 December 2012). "Mullan faces The Fear in TV drama" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  5. ^ "Weekly top 30 programmes - BARB". www.barb.co.uk.
  6. ^ "Television Craft | Photography And Lighting - Fiction in 2013". Awards.bafta.org. British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  7. ^ "The Fear (DVD)". Editions Montparnasse - La Culture en DVD, Blu-ray et VOD.