Babylon (TV series)

Babylon
Genre	Drama
Created by	Danny Boyle Robert Jones Jesse Armstrong Sam Bain
Written by	Sam Bain Jesse Armstrong Jon Brown
Directed by	Danny Boyle Sally El Hosaini Jon S. Baird
Starring	Brit Marling Ella Smith Bertie Carvel Jim Howick Martin Trenaman Daniel Kaluuya James Nesbitt Jonny Sweet Paterson Joseph Nicola Walker Adam Deacon Jill Halfpenny Cavan Clerkin Andrew Brooke Stuart Martin Nick Blood
Composer(s)	Rick Smith (Main theme and pilot) Stuart Earl (series 1)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	7 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Robert Jones Jesse Armstrong Sam Bain Danny Boyle
Editor(s)	Jon Harris Mark Davies Iain Kitching
Running time	90 minutes (pilot) 60 minutes (series)
Production company(s)	Nightjack Ltd.
Release
Original network	Channel 4 Channel 4 HD
Picture format	16:9
First shown in	9 February 2014 (2014-02-09) (pilot)
Original release	13 November (2014-11-13) – 18 December 2014 (2014-12-18) (series 1)
External links
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Babylon is a British drama television series co-created by Danny Boyle, Robert Jones, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain for Channel 4, and produced by Nightjack Ltd.

The series is set in London, and follows various characters working for the Metropolitan Police Service, police officers on the streets, who are responding to incidents, as well as the top management and PR department at New Scotland Yard, who try to counter any backlash from such incidents.

The series follows the new Director of Communications, the American Liz Garvey (Brit Marling), who has been headhunted by the Police Commissioner Richard Miller (James Nesbitt) to drag the force into the new media age, and her conflicts with her own department and legal bureaucracy. This is intercut with the happenings within a team in the Territorial Support Group and a team of authorised firearms officers in the Specialist Firearms Command.

Channel 4 originally announced that Babylon had been commissioned for Autumn 2014 on 23 December 2013. They further announced the six-part series had begun filming, in and around London on 17 April 2014.

Danny Boyle directed the pilot episode, whilst Jon S. Baird directed the first three episodes of Series 1 with Sally El Hosaini directing the last three. Jon Brown joined the writing group (from the pilot episode) alongside Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. The programme was created by Boyle, Robert Jones, Armstrong and Bain who were also Executive Producers. The Producers were Jones and Derrin Schlesinger.

Episode two was partly filmed at the Metropolitan Police Training Ground in Gravesend, Kent and features in the scenes where Robbie (Adam Deacon) trains at the firing range. Episode six, the series finale, recreated the London Riots of 2011.

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