No Offence
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| Genre | Police Procedural • Drama • Dark Comedy |
| Created by | Paul Abbott |
| Directed by |
David Kerr Catherine Morshead Misha Manson-Smith Harry Bradbeer |
| Starring |
Joanna Scanlan Elaine Cassidy Alexandra Roach Paul Ritter Will Mellor Colin Salmon Sarah Solemani Saira Choudhry |
| Theme music composer | Vince Pope |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 15 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Paul Abbott Martin Carr |
| Producer(s) | Anna Ferguson Simon Meyers |
| Location(s) | Manchester |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | AbbottVision |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Picture format | 16:9 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 5 May 2015 – present |
| External links | |
| No Offence on Channel 4 website | |
| No Offence on AbbottVision website | |
No Offence is a British television police procedural drama on Channel 4, created by Paul Abbott. It follows a team of detectives from Friday Street police station, a division of the Manchester Metropolitan Police (a fictional version of the Greater Manchester Police). The series stars Joanna Scanlan as the protagonist, Detective Inspector Viv Deering. The first series focuses on the team's investigation into the serial murders of young girls with Down's syndrome. It was renewed for a second run. The second series of seven episodes began broadcasting on 4 January 2017, and follows the investigation into Manchester crime boss Nora Attah (Rakie Ayola). Both series were filmed on location in Manchester.
In the UK, the first episode of No Offence launched with 2.5 million viewers, Channel 4's biggest midweek drama launch for more than three years. Although subsequent episodes lost overnight viewers, dropping as low as 1.2 million, the weekly consolidated series average remained at 2.5 million and finished 47% up on Channel 4's slot average. In France, the first episode of No Offence aired on 29 February 2016 on France 2 and was watched by 5.46 million viewers, 20.4% of the TV audience. The next three episodes were shown back to back that evening and together achieved an average 4.6 million viewers, 20.4% of the TV audience.
In the first series, D.I. Viv Deering is dynamic but blunt in leading a team of detectives at the fictional 'Manchester Metropolitan Police'. D.C. Dinah Kowalska misses out on a promotion to D.S. due to a mistake, but she proceeds to uncover a link between a murder, the body of a drowned woman, and the disappearance of a third girl. The team soon realise someone is killing girls with Down's Syndrome across Manchester, and, while negotiating different cases, they attempt to solve the case as more girls come into danger. The prime suspect is killed whilst fleeing arrest, but Dinah and Viv separately conclude that Viv's husband was also involved. Viv burns the evidence and plans to kill rather than arrest him, but he is killed by Cathy whilst she and Dinah are holding him at Viv's home. With Viv they cover up their involvement before reporting the killing.
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