The Cut (BBC series)
| The Cut | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Teen drama |
| Created by | Geoffrey Goodwin and Al Smith |
| Written by | Al Smith Anna McCleery Grant Black Vicki Lutas Isla Gray Emma Smithwick |
| Directed by | Sarah Walker and Laura Smith |
| Starring | Scarlett Bowman Jessica Dickens Lara Goodison Edward Green Matt Kane Dermot Martin Billie North Tilly Wood Maisie Crossland Deborah May Alex Roe Connor Scarlett Wilfred Taylor Stephanie Blacker Tosin Cole Kellie-Rose Demmel Stephen Hagan Luke Newton Dominic Sherwood Samuell Benta Duane Henry Alice Southwood |
| Country of origin | UK |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Geoffrey Goodwin |
| Producer(s) | Pete Gibbons and Geoffrey Goodwin |
| Running time | approx. 25 minutes |
| Distributor | Content Media Corporation PLC |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two/BBC Switch |
| Original release | 19 September 2009 – 18 December 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Cut is a BBC television teen drama, first broadcast in September 2009. The series was developed by Geoffrey Goodwin and Holby City writer, Al Smith in collaboration with KateModern producer Pete Gibbons and Hollyoaks director, Sarah Walker. The Cut is broadcast in 25-minute episodes on BBC Two, with each episode being broadcast in daily five-minute chunks on the website throughout the week before. The BBC describe it as reflecting the way many young people want to consume content which a critic has more cynically interpreted as for those with even the shortest of attention spans.
The first series ran on TV and online from September to December 2009. The second series was broadcast from April through to August 2010, and the third series started only two months later, and ran from October to December 2010. In March 2011, it was officially announced that The Cut had been axed and would not return for a fourth series. However, a team of fans have set up a scriptwriting team on Facebook, under the name Writers of The Cut: Series 4 and Beyond, which works on continuing the series and publicising the scripts.
A second season and open auditions for two parts were announced in February 2010. The second series started filming in mid-March 2010 and airing started on 24 April, with the website airing it in five-minute chunks through the previous week.
On 8 July 2010, it was announced on the blog that a third series has been commissioned.
The Cut website release each episode of the show in daily five-minute chunks throughout the previous week, showing the whole of the upcoming episode before it airs.
On 19 February 2011, The Cut announced on their Facebook page that there is 'a lot of work going on behind the scenes for a fourth series and a DVD release', although a DVD has not been officially confirmed and a fourth series will not be going ahead.
The Cut is distributed in the US through Hulu.
Jay Kelso (played by Samuell Benta) is the main protagonist of Series 1, and plays a minor role in Series 2.
Jay grew up in care, and knows little about his family background. At the start of the series, his birth certificate is found in the pocket of a dead man, prompting lawyers in London to contact Jay. When he arrives, he is told that he is in fact the actual owner of the Loxley's cafe, which Toni and Olive now run. Jay quickly befriends Olive and Toni, but does not tell them the real reason he is in town. His best friend Fin soon turns up and persuades Jay to find out where the cafe rent goes. They track it to the Dive Bar, where the landlord, Joey, informs them that he was friends with his grandfather, who gambled the cafe to him so that he could afford to find Jay and his mother, Carmen. They play poker to win the cafe back, and Fin manages to win the game for Jay. Soon after, Jay confesses to Toni that he owns the cafe. Later in the series he strikes up a relationship with Marla, and moves out of the Loxley's to live in a flat with Fin. After Marla discovers that he owns the cafe, she tells him that they are over and, realising that there is nothing left for him in London, Jay returns home.
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