Prisoners' Wives

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Prisoners' Wives
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GenreDrama
Created byJulie Gearey
Written by
  • Julie Gearey
  • James Graham
  • Chloe Moss
Starring
Composer Daniel Pemberton
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producers
  • Roanna Benn
  • Rebecca de Souza
  • Julie Gearey
ProducerAnna Ferguson
Production locations Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Running time60 minutes
Production company Tiger Aspect Productions
Original release
Network BBC One
Release31 January 2012 (2012-01-31) 
4 April 2013 (2013-04-04)

Prisoners' Wives is a BBC drama series, created and written by Julie Gearey and starring Polly Walker, Pippa Haywood, Emma Rigby, Natalie Gavin, Sally Carman and Karla Crome, with supporting cast including Iain Glen, Adam Gillen, Jonas Armstrong, Reuben Johnson, Enzo Cilenti and Owen Roe. The series centres on four very different women, each struggling to cope with a significant man in her life serving time in prison. [1] [2] [3] The series is set in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Series one was six episodes long, and premiered on Tuesday 31 January 2012. Series two was a shorter run of four episodes, and began on Thursday 14 March 2013 on BBC One. [4] [5]

Contents

Main cast

Series 1

Series 2

Supporting cast

Series 1

Series 2

Episodes

Series 1

#TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions) [6]
1"Episode 1"Damon ThomasJulie Gearey31 January 2012 (2012-01-31)5.62
2"Episode 2"Damon ThomasJulie Gearey7 February 2012 (2012-02-07)5.96
3"Episode 3"Damon ThomasJames Graham14 February 2012 (2012-02-14)5.18
4"Episode 4"Harry BradbeerChloe Moss21 February 2012 (2012-02-21)4.69
5"Episode 5"Harry BradbeerJulie Gearey28 February 2012 (2012-02-28)4.98
6"Episode 6"Harry BradbeerJulie Gearey6 March 2012 (2012-03-06)5.16

Series 2

#TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions) [6]
7"Episode 1"Harry BradbeerJulie Gearey14 March 2013 (2013-03-14)4.94
8"Episode 2"Harry BradbeerJulie Gearey21 March 2013 (2013-03-21)4.96
9"Episode 3"Harry BradbeerJulie Gearey28 March 2013 (2013-03-28)4.74
10"Episode 4"Harry BradbeerJulie Gearey4 April 2013 (2013-04-04)4.79

Production

Prisoners’ Wives is executive produced for Tiger Aspect by Roanna Benn, Rebecca de Souza and Greg Brenman (Tiger's Head of Drama) and for the BBC by Christopher Aird. Damon Thomas and Harry Bradbeer direct with Anna Ferguson as producer and Abi Bach as co-producer. The series was commissioned for BBC One by Ben Stephenson and Danny Cohen for airing in early 2012.

Ratings

The first series attracted an average consolidated audience of 5.26 million. The average consolidated audience for the second series was 4.86 million.

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