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Murder City

Murder City
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Genre Crime drama
Created by Robert Murphy
Written by Robert Murphy
Stephen Plaice
Danny Miller
Directed by Richard Spence
Ashley Pearce
Ian Knox
Starring Amanda Donohoe
Kris Marshall
Connor McIntyre
Laura Main
Tim Woodward
Amber Agar
Geff Francis
Alexis Conran
Composer(s) Mark Russell
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 2
No. of episodes 10 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Andy Harries
Francis Hopkinson
Producer(s) Mark Hudson
David Boulter
Tony Dennis
Running time 90 minutes
Production company(s) Granada Television
Distributor ITV Studios
Release
Original network ITV
Picture format 16:9
Audio format Stereo
Original release 18 March 2004 (2004-03-18) – 26 April 2006 (2006-04-26)

Murder City is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on 18 March 2004 on ITV, that focuses on two mismatched detectives — DI Susan Alembic (Amanda Donohoe) and DS Luke Stone (Kris Marshall) — who scour London solving complex cases. The first series consisted of six episodes. A second and final series of four episodes was subsequently commissioned, which began broadcast on 5 April 2006. Following declining viewing figures, a third series of Murder City was not commissioned. BBC America began airing the complete series on August 17, 2006, and it was subsequently released in a Region 1 four-disc DVD box set by Image Entertainment on August 14, 2007.

Whilst the premise of the show features a murder squad investigating complex cases in and around London, the drama created is centered around the re-alignment of character team-ups. Although DI Susan Alembic (Amanda Donohoe) and DS Luke Stone (Kris Marshall) are the lead characters and partners, writer Robert Murphy frequently separates them at the beginning of each episode, by providing them with their own case to solve. While Alembic is typically partnered with DI Adrian Dumfries (Geff Francis), Dumfries also possessed his own cases which the episodes followed.

Additionally, character personality alignment frequently varied. Episodes either switched between Stone and Alembic uniting against Dumfries' personality, or Dumfries and Alembic conjoining to discourage Stone's theories. However, one episode showed all three sharing a laugh, despite DCI Sebastian Turner (Tim Woodward)'s chagrin. Despite showing the personality failures of each character, the series did not overtly lampoon any character or favour one crime solving style over another. Both the 'out of the box' and the 'by the book' characters contribute to the solution of their individual cases through their unique approaches.


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