Wire in the Blood

Wire in the Blood
GenreCrime drama
Based onTony Hill and Carol Jordan series
by Val McDermid
StarringRobson Green
Hermione Norris
Simone Lahbib
Mark Letheren
Emma Handy
Tom Chadbon
Peter Sullivan
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series6
No. of episodes24
Production
Executive producerSandra Jobling
ProducerPhilip Leach
EditorKeith Palmer
Running time90 mins. (Series 2–5)
60 mins. (Series 1 and 6)
Original release
NetworkITV
Release14 November 2002 (2002-11-14) –
31 October 2008 (2008-10-31)
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Wire in the Blood is a British crime drama television series, created and produced by Coastal Productions with Tyne Tees Television and broadcast on ITV from 14 November 2002 to 31 October 2008. The series is based on the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series by Val McDermid, including a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill (Robson Green), who is able to tap into his own dark side to get inside the heads of serial killers. Working with detectives, Hill takes on tough and seemingly impenetrable cases in an attempt to track down the killers before they strike again.

ITV cancelled the series in 2009, citing high production costs (which were estimated at up to £750,000 per episode) and the large number of new series being broadcast on the network.[1]

  1. ^ Rushton, Katherine (6 February 2009). "Wire in the Blood axed". Broadcast.