Waking the Dead (TV series)

Waking the Dead
Genre	Crime drama
Created by	Barbara Machin
Starring	Trevor Eve Sue Johnston Wil Johnson Claire Goose Holly Aird Esther Hall Félicité Du Jeu Tara Fitzgerald Stacey Roca Eva Birthistle
Composer	Joe Campbell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	9
No. of episodes	92 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Alexei de Keyser Patrick Spence Susan Hogg Anne Pivcevic
Producer	Colin Wratten
Cinematography	Mike Spragg
Editor	Adam Trotman
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	BBC Drama Group
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	4 September 2000 (2000-09-04) – 11 April 2011 (2011-04-11)
Related
The Body Farm
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Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series, produced by the BBC, that centres on a fictional London-based cold case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and a total of nine series followed. Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One. A third series episode won an International Emmy Award in 2004. The programme was also shown on BBC America in the United States, though these screenings are edited to allow for advertising breaks, as well as UKTV in Australia and New Zealand and ABC1 in Australia. A total of 46 stories aired across the nine series. The show aired its final episode on 11 April 2011. A spin-off from the series, titled The Body Farm, revolving around forensic scientist Eve Lockhart (Tara Fitzgerald), was announced by the BBC in January 2011 and ran for just one series.

In 2018, a five-part radio prequel to the series, The Unforgiven, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with Sue Johnston, Claire Goose, Wil Johnson and Holly Aird reprising their roles. All five episodes were written by series creator Barbara Machin. Anthony Howell replaced Trevor Eve in the role of Peter Boyd.^[1]