Waking the Dead (2000)

Genre

drama television series, crime television series, police television drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

9 seasons, 90 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This TV series follows a London cold case unit made up of police, a profiler, and a scientist as they reopen old unsolved murders. Each case spreads over two episodes and shows the team working through evidence and psychological angles.

proceduralinvestigativeatmosphericthoughtfuldeliberatecool-toneddetailed

What happens

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. Following Waking the Dead's conclusion, a spin-off series, titled The Body Farm, aired in late 2011, revolving around forensic scientist Eve Lockhart (Tara Fitzgerald). It was cancelled after one series. In 2018, a five-part radio prequel to Waking the Dead, entitled The Unforgiven, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with all five episodes written by series creator Barbara Machin. Sue Johnston, Claire Goose, Wil Johnson, and Holly Aird all reprised their roles, with Anthony Howell replacing Trevor Eve in the role of Peter Boyd. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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