Bounty Hunters (UK TV series)

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Bounty Hunters
GenreComedy drama
Created by
Directed byWill Sinclair
Starring
Composer(s)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original language(s)English
No. of series2
No. of episodes11
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Ben Cavey
  • Jon Mountague
  • Morwenna Gordon
  • Freddy Syborn
  • Jack Whitehall
Producer(s) Pippa Brown
Production company(s) Tiger Aspect Productions
Release
Original network Sky One
Original release25 October 2017 (2017-10-25) 
present (present)

Bounty Hunters is a British comedy drama series that first aired on 25 October 2017 on Sky One.

Sky One is a British pay television channel operated and owned by Sky, a division of Comcast, available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Cast

Jack Whitehall British comedian, television presenter and actor

Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter, actor and writer. He is best known for his stand up comedy, for starring as JP in the TV series Fresh Meat (2011–2016), and for playing Alfie Wickers in the TV series Bad Education (2012–2014) and the spin-off film The Bad Education Movie (2015), both of which he also co-wrote.

Rosie Perez American actress

Rosa María Perez is an American actress, community activist, talk show host, author, dancer and choreographer. Her film breakthrough was in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989), which she followed with White Men Can't Jump (1992). Among many honors, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Fearless (1993). She was also nominated for three Emmy Awards for her work as a choreographer on In Living Color. In 2007, Perez starred on Broadway as Googie Gomez in a revival of The Ritz, and she was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award for her performance in The Take. Perez was a regular host on The View and in 2015 she returned to Broadway to star in Fish in the Dark, a play written by Larry David.

Charity Rose Wakefield is an English actress.

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