The Wrong Mans
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
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| Directed by | Jim Field Smith |
| Starring | Matthew Baynton, James Corden |
| Composer(s) | Kevin Sargent |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (UK broadcast); 10 (US broadcast) (list of episodes) |
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| Location(s) | Berkshire |
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| Running time | 30/60 minutes (Series 2) |
| Production company(s) | Hulu/BBC |
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| Picture format | HD (BBC Two HD) |
| Original release | 24 September 2013 – 23 December 2014 |
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The Wrong Mans is a British BBC Television comedy drama series, co-produced with the American online television provider Hulu. It premiered on BBC Two on 24 September 2013 and in the United States on 11 November 2013. Considered a critical and ratings success, it was co-created and written by Gavin & Stacey alumni James Corden and Mathew Baynton as an attempt to combine the situation comedy format with the intricate plotting and storytelling tropes of an action-adventure series.
An equally successful two-part sequel series aired on BBC Two in the runup to Christmas 2014, with Hulu debuting the same series in four parts on Christmas Eve.
Berkshire County Council worker Sam Pinkett (Mathew Baynton) and Phil Bourne (James Corden) who doesn't work for the council and just works inside the building, abruptly become entangled in a far-fetched – but deadly serious – web of crime, conspiracy and corruption after Sam answers a ringing phone at the site of a car crash.
On 9 October 2012, BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow announced The Wrong Mans as a co-production between BBC In-House Comedy and Hulu. The series was commissioned by Janice Hadlow and Cheryl Taylor. A pilot based on Baynton and Corden's initial series pitch had previously been shot in 2010; some elements were retained for what eventually became the first episode of the full series, including a pre-Homeland cameo from David Harewood. Principal filming on the series began in January 2013, at the same time as the cast was announced.Jeremy Dyson was the script editor for the series.
The idea for the series initially arose out of a conversation between Corden and Baynton on the set of Gavin and Stacey, four years earlier, regarding the apparent scarcity of TV sitcoms with the same level of intricate, meaningful plotting as then-current dramatic hits 24 and Lost. As a starting-point for their own half-hour comedy show pitch to the BBC, the duo were further inspired by the Coen Brothers' film Burn After Reading, with its central concept of ordinary characters obviously out of their depth in a standard action-movie scenario. The humour in their new TV series, Baynton and Corden decided, would arise not so much from deliberate jokes as from the sheer realistic ineptitude of the heroes' attempts to cope with a high-stakes melodrama constantly snowballing further out of their control.
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