Sorted (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by |
Danny Brocklehurst Steve Lightfoot Richard Stoneman |
| Directed by | Iain B. Macdonald Marc Jobst |
| Starring |
Neil Dudgeon Will Mellor Hugo Speer Cal MacAninch Dean Lennox Kelly Mark Womack |
| Opening theme | "Bang Bang You're Dead" by Dirty Pretty Things |
| Composer(s) | John Lunn |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Sally Haynes |
| Producer(s) | Steve Lightfoot |
| Cinematography | Nick Dance |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC Studios |
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| Original network |
BBC One BBC HD |
| Picture format | 16:9 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 18 July – 22 August 2006 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Sorted is a six-part BBC television drama series that was first broadcast in 2006 on BBC One and BBC HD. The series was created by Danny Brocklehurst, whose previous credits including Clocking Off, The Stretford Wives and Shameless. The series, set in Manchester but filmed in , follows the personal and professional lives of several postmen, and stars Neil Dudgeon, Will Mellor, Hugo Speer, Cal MacAninch and Dean Lennox Kelly.
The series achieved an average of four million viewers throughout it's run, and was the only BBC drama series that year that achieved stronger ratings for it's final episode than it's first. Despite this - and the largely good critical response - the BBC announced in October 2006 that it would not recommission the programme. The name of the series has a double meaning - postal workers 'sort' mail for delivery and "sorted" is a common slang word for approval used in Manchester.
Producer Steve Lightfoot said of the series; "The warmth, wit and camaraderie of these very ordinary blokes ensures they can see each other through whatever life throws at them. It's very real, with powerful, emotional storylines which will hook viewers in to their world. The sorting office is where the boys come together at the start of every day. They're a tight knit group, but with their shift finishing in the afternoon, there's plenty of time to see what they get up to away from the Post Office. There are storylines which run through the series but each episode focuses in on one of the six."
Writer Danny Brocklehurst noted; "What this was supposed to be was very much in that Clocking Off or The Lakes kind of vein of telling stories about people who actually – other than in soaps – don't make it onto television that often. It's about ordinary, working-class lives. I wanted to tell stories with dignity and humanity and truth about ordinary people, and even though the stories are not always life and death, they are really important to those characters. I think that there's not enough of that type of telly on these days. People want to sit down at the end of the day and watch something that they see a bit of themselves in."
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