Wuthering Heights | |
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Based on | Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
Written by | Peter Bowker |
Directed by | Coky Giedroyc |
Starring | Tom Hardy Charlotte Riley Andrew Lincoln Sarah Lancashire Rebecca Night |
Composer | Ruth Barrett |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Michele Buck Damien Timmer Hugo Heppell Rebecca Eaton |
Producer | Radford Neville |
Cinematography | Ulf Brantås |
Editor | Mark Thornton |
Running time | 2 hours 22 minutes |
Production companies | Mammoth Screen WGBH |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 30 August 31 August 2009 | –
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Wuthering Heights is a 2009 two-part British ITV[1] television series adaptation of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The episodes were adapted for the screen by Peter Bowker and directed by Coky Giedroyc.[2] The programme stars Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley in the roles of the lovers Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.
The series was first broadcast in January 2009 in the US, as part of PBS's Masterpiece Classic programming.[3] It eventually aired in the UK in two separate 90-minute instalments on consecutive nights, on 30 and 31 August 2009. It was broadcast on the terrestrial network ITV (ITV1 and UTV), and in early 2010 on STV in Scotland.