Inspector George Gently (2008)
Inspector George Gently (2008)
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This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Martin Shaw
George Gently
Lee Ingleby
John Bacchus
Simon Hubbard
PC Taylor
Andrew Lowe
Executive Producer
Lisa McGrillis
Rachel Coles
Don Gallagher
Bob Anderton
Annabel Scholey
Gemma Nunn
Melanie Clark Pullen
Lisa Bacchus
Tony Rohr
China
Ciaran Donnelly
Director
Tim Whitby
Director
Bryn Higgins
Director
Roger Goldby
Director
Gillies MacKinnon
Director
Peter Flannery
Producer / Screenplay / Writer
Mick Ford
Writer
Tim McInnerny
Geoffrey Pershore
Neve McIntosh
Sarah Simmons
Kerrie Hayes
Bex
Jill Halfpenny
Cora Davidson
William Ash
Mark Tanner
Jemma Redgrave
Jennifer Bing
Nichola Burley
Fawn Granger
Geraldine Somerville
Alethea Blackstone
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 8, 2008
StatusEnded
Seasons8
Episodes25
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingTV-G
Genres
Wiki.
Inspector George Gently (also known as George Gently for the pilot and first series) is a 2008 British television crime drama series produced by Company Pictures for BBC One, set in the 1960s and loosely based on some of the Inspector Gently novels written by Alan Hunter. The series stars Martin Shaw as the eponymous inspector and Lee Ingleby as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus, with Simon Hubbard and Lisa McGrillis in supporting roles as police constables in the fictitious North East Constabulary.
The series moved the setting of the stories to North East England, centring on Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and County Durham, as opposed to the Norfolk setting in the books. The death penalty is still in effect in Britain as the series begins, and it is used as a plot feature in some early episodes. The abolition of the death penalty in 1965 is noted in the series. The earliest episodes are set in 1964 with the eighth series taking place in 1970.
After fair ratings for the first three series, the BBC secured funding from the North East Content Fund to produce further episodes. The fourth series was filmed between January and June 2011, and was broadcast that autumn. On 26 March 2012, the BBC announced that four new feature-length episodes were being produced to be shown later the same year. The fifth series ended on a dramatic cliffhanger, with the fate of both leading characters uncertain. However, in September 2012, the lead writer, Peter Flannery, confirmed that a sixth series, consisting of four episodes, had been commissioned. The sixth series was shown in February 2014. A seventh series of four episodes was subsequently commissioned, and began being broadcast in April 2015. The eighth and final series was broadcast in 2017.