Prisoners' Wives
| Prisoners’ Wives | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Julie Gearey |
| Written by | Julie Gearey James Graham Chloe Moss |
| Starring |
Polly Walker Pippa Haywood Sally Carman (series 2) Karla Crome (series 2) Emma Rigby (Series 1) Natalie Gavin (Series 1) |
| Composer(s) | Daniel Pemberton |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 10 (to 4 April 2013) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Roanna Benn Rebecca de Souza Julie Gearey |
| Producer(s) | Anna Ferguson |
| Location(s) | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
| Running time | 59 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Tiger Aspect Productions |
| Distributor | Endemol UK |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC One BBC HD |
| Picture format | 16:9 (HDTV) |
| Original release | 31 January 2012 – 4 April 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Prisoners' Wives is a BBC drama series, created and written by Julie Gearey and starring Polly Walker, Pippa Haywood, Emma Rigby, Natalie Gavin, Sally Carman and Karla Crome, with supporting cast including Iain Glen, Adam Gillen, Jonas Armstrong, Reuben Johnson, Enzo Cilenti and Owen Roe. The series centres on four very different women, each struggling to cope with a significant man in her life serving time in prison. The series is set in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Series one was six episodes long, and premiered on Tuesday 31 January 2012. Series two was a shorter run of four episodes, and began on Thursday 14 March 2013 on BBC One.
Prisoners’ Wives is executive produced for Tiger Aspect. by Roanna Benn, Rebecca de Souza and Greg Brenman (Tiger's Head of Drama) and for the BBC by Christopher Aird. Damon Thomas and Harry Bradbeer direct with Anna Ferguson as producer and Abi Bach as co-producer. The series was commissioned for BBC One by Ben Stephenson and Danny Cohen for airing in early 2012.
The first series attracted an average consolidated audience of 5.26 million. The average consolidated audience for the second series was 4.86 million.
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