Broadchurch

Name: Broadchurch
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rating: 8.2
Cast: David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Mark Bazeley, Lenny Henry

A town wrapped in secrets.

Broadchurch (2013-2017)

Seasons: 3, episodes: 24

Average rating: 8.2/10 195 274

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Premiere

2013-03-04

Last episode

2017-04-17

Status

Ended

Country

United Kingdom

Network

ITV1

Production

Kudos, Imaginary Friends

Genre

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Creators

Chris Chibnall

Actors

David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Mark Bazeley, Lenny Henry, Sebastian Armesto, Oskar McNamara, Georgina Campbell, Sarah Parish, Jodie Whittaker
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Chris Chibnall, Louise Fox

Producer

Richard Stokes

Camera operator

Composer

Ólafur Arnalds

Editing

Whole Team (15)

Short description

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Series 1 The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.	8	2013-03-04	8
Series 2 Still haunted by the case involving the murder of 11-year-old Danny Latimer, DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller pick themselves up and continue their investigative work, all the while dealing with the far-reaching consequences of the earlier case.	8	2015-01-05	7.5
Series 3 Series 3, the final series, starts three years on from the last series, five years on from the start with a bold new crime story which forces us to ask whether the town has a crack running through it caused by Danny Latimer’s death; is this new crime somehow the long-term legacy of that dark moment?	8	2017-02-27	7.4

What's left behind the scenes

The county of Wessex, where Broadchurch is located, is a product of the imagination of writer and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). In the series, there is a detective inspector with the same last name.
Almost all the actors cast in the first season were told that any one of their characters could be the killer. Only Jodie Whittaker, who played the victim's mother, knew for certain that she was not the killer (though she didn't know who it was). While filming one of the episodes around the middle of the first season, she asked the show's creator about it, but Chris Chibnall told her nothing.
The building of the University of Exeter, founded in 1922, serves as the Wessex County Criminal Jury Court.
The Labrador that follows Susan Wright, played by Polly Quirke, belongs to the actress. The dog's name is Bailey.
There is a mistaken belief that the series "Murder on the Beach" (2013) is a remake of the series "The Killing" (2007-2012), a joint production of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, and that the events in the film predate those in the series by at least five years. In reality, Chris Chibnall came up with the idea for the series long ago and began working on the script as early as 2002. However, it took him 10 years to actually film the series.