Hidden | |
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Genre | Crime drama |
Written by | Ronan Bennett |
Directed by | Niall MacCormick |
Starring |
Philip Glenister Thekla Reuten Anna Chancellor Michael Winder David Suchet Ben Smith Andrew Scarborough |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Stephen Wright Ed Rubin |
Producer(s) | Christopher Hall |
Running time | 57 minutes |
Production company(s) | Origin Pictures BBC Northern Ireland |
Release | |
Original network | BBC One |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 6 October | – 27 October 2011
Website |
Hidden is a British television drama starring Philip Glenister, Thekla Reuten, Anna Chancellor, Michael Winder, Andrew Scarborough and David Suchet, which debuted on BBC One on 6 October 2011. The four-part series was directed by Niall MacCormick, produced by Christopher Hall and written by Ronan Bennett. The series focuses on small-time solicitor Harry Venn (Glenister), who is reluctantly drawn back into his dark past after being approached by Gina Hawkes (Reuten). Hawkes, a lawyer searching for a missing alibi witness for her client, quickly draws Venn into a deep and dangerous conspiracy involving the death of his brother twenty years previously, and which reaches deep into the heart of the British political system.
Josephine Moulds of The Telegraph said of the first series: "All in all it was terribly exciting. Less pretentious than Page Eight and more ambitious than Spooks, Hidden nailed the intelligent, pacy TV thriller."