The Shadow Line (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Hugo Blick |
| Written by | Hugo Blick |
| Directed by | Hugo Blick |
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| Theme music composer | Emily Barker |
| Opening theme | Pause |
| Ending theme | Pause |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
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| Original network | BBC |
| Original release | 5 May – 16 June 2011 |
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The Shadow Line is a seven-part British television drama miniseries produced by Company Pictures/Eight Rooks Ltd/Baby Cow/CinemaNX production for BBC Two. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Rafe Spall, Lesley Sharp, Kierston Wareing, Antony Sher and Stephen Rea. The series was written, directed and produced by Hugo Blick. (It has no connection with the sea-faring novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad.)
The first episode was screened on 12 April 2011 at BAFTA's Princess Anne Theatre in Piccadilly, and was followed by a special question and answer session with Hugo Blick and Christopher Eccleston.
Broadcasting of the series started on 5 May 2011 and finished on 16 June 2011. It is currently available on Blu-ray and DVD.
The Shadow Line is about a murder investigated by both sides of the line – police and criminals – and the opposing methods they use to solve it. But the real line is the morality within each character and how far they will go before they cross it. It is also about a secret so monumental that, if it were ever revealed, the entire nation might collapse.
The series is produced by Company Pictures/Eight Rooks Ltd/Baby Cow/CinemaNX/Isle of Man Film for BBC Two. It was mainly shot in the Isle of Man, with some sequences filmed in London.
The theme music is the song "Pause" written by Emily Barker and performed by Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo. It was adapted to fit the title sequence scored by Martin Phipps., designed by Peter Anderson
Drugs baron Harvey Wratten and his unstable nephew Jay (Rafe Spall) are released from prison on a Royal Pardon: Jay going for associate Bob Harris (Robert Pugh) for suggesting that they earned their freedom by naming names. Harvey is murdered and dishonest cop Sergeant Foley (David Schofield) tips off the Wrattens' seemingly placid and gentle henchman Joseph Bede (Christopher Eccleston), a man whose wife Julie (Lesley Sharp) appears to be suffering from early Alzheimers, to the fact before the investigation gets under way. The case is given to DI Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor), returning to work after a bungled undercover job in which his partner died and he got a bullet in the brain which cannot be removed. No sooner has the investigation got under way when Gabriel finds a case containing thousands of pounds in his own house.
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