| No Offence | |
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| Genre | Police procedural Drama Black comedy |
| Created by | Paul Abbott |
| Directed by | Catherine Morshead David Kerr Misha Manson-Smith Harry Bradbeer |
| Starring | Joanna Scanlan Elaine Cassidy Alexandra Roach Paul Ritter Will Mellor Colin Salmon Sarah Solemani Saira Choudhry Claire Rushbrook |
| Theme music composer | Vince Pope |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 21 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Paul Abbott Martin Carr Paul Coe |
| Producers | Anna Ferguson Simon Meyers Philip Leach |
| Production location | Manchester |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company | AbbottVision |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 4 |
| Release | 5 May 2015 – 18 October 2018 |
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No Offence is a British television police procedural drama on Channel 4, created by Paul Abbott. It follows a team of detectives from Friday Street police station, a division of the Manchester Metropolitan Police (a fictional version of the Greater Manchester Police). The series stars Joanna Scanlan as the protagonist, Detective Inspector Viv Deering. The first series focuses on the team's investigation into the serial murders of young girls with Down syndrome.[1][2] It was renewed for two further runs.[3] The second series of seven episodes began broadcasting on 4 January 2017, and follows the investigation into Manchester crime boss Nora Attah (Rakie Ayola). It was filmed on location in Manchester.[4][5]
In the UK, the first episode of No Offence launched with 2.5 million viewers, Channel 4's biggest midweek drama launch for more than three years. Although subsequent episodes lost overnight viewers, dropping as low as 1.2 million, the weekly consolidated series average remained at 2.5 million and finished 47% up on Channel 4's slot average.[6] In France, the first episode of No Offence aired on 29 February 2016 on France 2 and was watched by 5.46 million viewers, 20.4% of the TV audience. The next three episodes were shown back-to-back that evening and together achieved an average 4.6 million viewers, 19.3% of the TV audience.[7]
A third series was confirmed in July 2017.[8] Filming took place in Manchester in March 2018[9] and it began broadcasting on 13 September 2018. The six-episode series has a political focus, with the main storyline following the attempted murder of a local politician by a far right group. On 19 October 2018, Paul Abbott stated in an interview that he had begun working on ideas for a potential fourth series,[10] but on 28 November 2019, Executive Producer Martin Carr confirmed on Twitter that the show would not be returning.[11][12][13]
- ^ Dianne Bourne (3 November 2014). "First pictures from the set of No Offence, new police drama from Paul Abbott". Manchester Evening News.
- ^ "Shameless writer Paul Abbott's new cop drama No Offence to launch on Channel 4". The Independent. 17 April 2015. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022.
- ^ Delgado, Kasia (23 June 2015). "It's back to the scene of the crime as No Offence gets a second series". Radio Times. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Cast announced for Paul Abbott's No Offence - Channel 4 - Info - Press". channel4.com.
- ^ "FremantleMedia takes No Offence". TBI Vision. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ Plunkett, John (23 June 2015). "No Offence to return for second series on Channel 4". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ Boucher, Kevin (1 March 2016). "Audiences : Camping Paradis leader, No Offence démarre fort, Bachelor au plus bas" [Audiences: "Camping Paradise" leader, "No Offence" starts strong, "Bachelor" at the lowest]. PureMédias (in French). Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ "No Offence gets third series". comedy.co.uk. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ "No Offence starts shooting third series in Manchester". www.prolificnorth.co.uk.
- ^ "No Offence writer already working on ideas for series 4". Digital Spy. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
- ^ Carr, Martin [@nooclar] (28 November 2019). "Only just found this Viv tribute but it made me sad the show is no more..... https://t.co/S3tHcYagde #nooffence" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^ Carr, Martin [@nooclar] (28 November 2019). "@TheEdFromSpace Hi Edward. Yeah. It has gone gone sadly" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^ Carr, Martin [@nooclar] (28 November 2019). "@whiteroserachel Hey Rachel, no, sadly not. The Friday St station has shut it's doors :(" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2021 – via Twitter.