Y Gwyll
| Y Gwyll | |
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| Also known as | 'Hinterland' |
| Genre | Crime drama |
| Created by | Ed Talfan Ed Thomas |
| Starring |
Richard Harrington Mali Harries Alex Harries Hannah Daniel Aneirin Hughes |
| Country of origin | Wales |
| Original language(s) | Welsh • English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 25 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Ed Thomas |
| Producer(s) | Gethin Scourfield Ed Talfan |
| Location(s) | Aberystwyth, Wales |
| Running time | 95 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Fiction Factory Films |
| Distributor | All3Media International |
| Release | |
| Original network | S4C |
| Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Original release | 29 October 2013 – present |
| Website | |
Y Gwyll (English translation: The Dusk), titled Hinterland in the English-language version, is a Welsh noir police detective drama series broadcast on S4C in Welsh. The main character, DCI Tom Mathias, is played by Richard Harrington. On 27 November 2013, a second series was announced by S4C. An English language version, with brief passages of Welsh dialogue, aired on BBC One Wales. When it was aired on the BBC in 2014, it was the first BBC television drama with dialogue in both English and Welsh. A third series of the show began filming in January 2016 and debuted on S4C on 30 October.
The series reflects the commitment made in April 2013 by the Director of BBC Cymru Wales, Rhodri Talfan Davies, to show more Welsh language life and culture on the mainstream BBC channels.
On a tight budget—funds that took two and a half years to raise—the total production cost was £4.2 million. The programme makers received £215,000 in repayable business funding from the Welsh Government and the programme was mainly filmed in Aberystwyth and the surrounding Ceredigion region on the west coast of Wales, over a 124‑day period in 2013. The show was filmed in both Welsh and English, with the location-based production offices contained within the former Ceredigion Council offices Swyddfa'r Sir, which also acts as the external scene of the show's police station.
The Welsh version was broadcast (in eight parts) on S4C in October 2013, with the bilingual version (in four parts) broadcast on BBC One Wales in January 2014 and on BBC Four later that year. The broadcaster that produced The Killing, Danmarks Radio (DR), acquired the rights in 2012 to broadcast the show in Denmark, before filming had commenced.
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