Prime Suspect 1973
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| Also known as | Prime Suspect: Tennison |
| Genre | Crime drama |
| Based on |
Tennison by Lynda La Plante |
| Written by | Glen Laker |
| Directed by | David Caffrey |
| Starring |
Stefanie Martini Sam Reid Blake Harrison Alun Armstrong Ruth Sheen Jessica Gunning Andrew Brooke |
| Composer(s) | Carly Paradis |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Camilla Campbell Robert Wulff-Cochrane Rebecca Eaton |
| Producer(s) | Rhonda Smith |
| Location(s) | Hackney, Inner London, England |
| Editor(s) | Stuart Gazzard |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
ITV Studios Noho Film and Television Masterpiece |
| Distributor | ITV Studios Global Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Picture format | 1080i (18:9 HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 2 March – 6 April 2017 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Prime Suspect |
| External links | |
| www |
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Prime Suspect 1973 (also known as Prime Suspect: Tennison) is a British television detective drama series, and a prequel to the long-running Prime Suspect series, originally starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison.
The series debuted on ITV in the UK on 2 March 2017, comprising six episodes. In June 2017, failure to reach agreement between ITV and Lynda La Plante resulted in the series not being renewed for a second series, despite high ratings for the first.
Set in Hackney, the series depicts a 22-year-old Jane Tennison (Stefanie Martini) as she begins her career as a WPC with the Metropolitan Police Service in 1973. At a time when women were beginning to be gradually integrated into the police force, Tennison has to deal with sexism, as well as difficulties in her home life as her family disapprove of her career choice. Under the guidance of DI Len Bradfield (Sam Reid), the naive and inexperienced Tennison assists in investigating the murder of a young runaway, Julie-Ann Collins. Meanwhile, criminal Clifford Bentley (Alun Armstrong) is released from prison, and along with other members of his family are planning a bank heist. Links to Collins' murder threaten to expose the Bentley family's plans.
The series is produced for ITV by Noho Film and Television, and was adapted by Glen Laker from the novel Tennison, written by original series creator Lynda La Plante. Commissioned by ITV in June 2015 under the working title Tennison, the series was set to be penned by La Plante, who had also written the original Prime Suspect novels, and contributed to episodes of the long-running television series of the same name. The announcement of Martini as Jane Tennison, as well as further casting was announced in July 2016. In early 2016, La Plante pulled out of the project, following a disagreement with ITV over aspects of the series, including the casting of certain characters, Tennison in particular. Vera and Home Fires writer Glen Laker was drafted in to write the scripts for the six episodes.
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