A Touch of Cloth
| A Touch of Cloth | |
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| Genre |
Satire Police procedural |
| Created by |
Charlie Brooker Boris Starling |
| Written by |
Charlie Brooker Daniel Maier |
| Directed by | Jim O'Hanlon |
| Starring |
John Hannah Suranne Jones Julian Rhind-Tutt Navin Chowdhry Adrian Bower Daisy Beaumont |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Zeppotron |
| Distributor | Endemol UK |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sky1 |
| Picture format | 16:9 (1080i HDTV) |
| Original release | 26 August 2012 – 10 August 2014 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
A Touch of Cloth is a British television comedy police procedural series created and written by Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier. It is a parody of British detective and crime dramas, and stars John Hannah as title character Jack Cloth, a police detective with personal issues, and Suranne Jones as Anne Oldman, his colleague. The title is a play on the title of another detective series, A Touch of Frost, as well as the British euphemism . To date there have been three series. The first series was released on DVD in the UK on September 3, 2012. Both the second and third series were released on September 1, 2014.
Guest stars in this series include Raquel Cassidy as Claire Hawkchurch; Theo Barklem-Biggs as Darren Crossway; Brian Cox as Bill Ball and Kate Fleetwood as Kate Cloth.
Guest stars in this series include Anna Chancellor as Hope Goodgirl; Stephen Dillane as Macratty; Gwyneth Powell as Mrs McClusky; and guest appearances from Graham Cole, Peter Dean, Konnie Huq, Rufus Hound and Richard Osman.
Guest stars in this series include Jessie Morell as Ivy Branch and Adrian Dunbar as Damien Vull.
A joke trailer for the fourth series ended the last episode of series three.
John Hannah has since claimed the series has been cancelled. "I imagine that's dead. I think it's been too long. I loved that show. Charlie wanted to do more, everyone did. It was Sky I guess. There might have been something to do with the negotiations, I don't know. We did the first one, then they wanted a lot more and Charlie wasn't sure he could sustain it over twelve episodes. So we did two more and then by the third one, they had figured out what they were doing. I think it's dead, it's a couple of years since we did that now. Normally when these things go, they go pretty quickly because people have other commitments, and Charlie is busy. It's a real shame. I doubt I'll be playing DI McDoodah for the next few years!"
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