Informer (TV series)

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Informer
Genre
Created by
Written by
  • Rory Haines
  • Sohrab Noshirvani
Directed by Jonny Campbell
Starring
Composer Ilan Eshkeri
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Nicolas Brown
  • Elizabeth Kilgarriff
  • Sam Mendes
  • Julie Pastor
Producer
  • Julian Stevens
Production location London
CinematographyTony Slater Ling
Editors
  • Fiona Colbeck
  • Gareth C. Scales
Running time58–59 minutes
Production company Neal Street Productions
Original release
Network BBC One
Release16 October (2018-10-16) –
20 November 2018 (2018-11-20)

Informer is a British television drama series, created and written by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani and produced by Neal Street Productions for the BBC. [1] The six-part series stars Paddy Considine, Bel Powley, Nabhaan Rizwan, and Jessica Raine. [2] The series began broadcasting on BBC One on 16 October 2018. [3]

Contents

Amazon Prime Video agreed to a distribution deal to broadcast the show outside the United Kingdom and Ireland. [4] [5]

In Belgium, Canvas started broadcasting the series on 27 April 2019.

Synopsis

Raza (Nabhaan Rizwan) is a young second-generation British Pakistani man from London who is coerced into informing by Gabe (Paddy Considine), a counterterrorism officer for the fictional Counter-Terrorism Special Unit (CTSU), his newfound role in National safety leads him into a variety of dangerous situations, alliances and a struggle to balance both his civilian lifestyle and be the person that his family knows, as well of that of a police informer. [1]

Cast

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
1"No Sleep Till Brooklyn" Jonny Campbell Rory Haines & Sohrab Noshirvani16 October 2018 (2018-10-16)
2"Strawberry Fields"Jonny CampbellRory Haines & Sohrab Noshirvani23 October 2018 (2018-10-23)
3"Charlie Don't Surf"Jonny CampbellRory Haines & Sohrab Noshirvani30 October 2018 (2018-10-30)
4"Ruby Tuesday"Jonny CampbellRory Haines & Sohrab Noshirvani6 November 2018 (2018-11-06)
5"November Has Come"Jonny CampbellRory Haines & Sohrab Noshirvani13 November 2018 (2018-11-13)
6"The Masterplan"Jonny CampbellRory Haines & Sohrab Noshirvani20 November 2018 (2018-11-20)

Production

The series was largely filmed on location in London. Raza's home and the fictional nearby "Bridge Town Estate" were primarily filmed at the Thamesmead estate in south-east London as well as the Silverlock Estate in Southwark. [21]

Filming took place at Shadwell railway station in January 2018 and in Brick Lane, Shoreditch. The Silver Building, a former Carlsberg-Tetley factory at the Docklands Depot in Silvertown was used as a set for the Counter-Terrorism Special Unit headquarters. The Printworks nightclub in Rotherhithe can be seen in the trailer alongside Delights Hair & Beauty salon on Rye Lane, Peckham. Other locations include Old Crown Courts in Kingston, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, a restaurant at Fiveways on Sidcup Road in New Eltham and the Thames Clippers ferry. [22]

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References

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  13. ↑ "BBC One - Informer - DCI Rose Asante". BBC.
  14. ↑ "BBC One - Informer - Dadir Hassan". BBC.
  15. ↑ "Informer, BBC1 review: Another troubled counter-terrorism officer, another boring cliche". The Independent. 23 October 2018.
  16. ↑ "BBC One - Informer - Sadia Shar". BBC.
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  18. ↑ "BBC One - Informer - Hanif Shar". BBC.
  19. ↑ "BBC One - Informer - Nasir Shar". BBC.
  20. ↑ "Belfast's West End star Rachel Tucker lands wicked role in new BBC drama". Belfasttelegraph. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
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