Hit & Miss
| Hit & Miss | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Paul Abbott |
| Written by | Sean Conway |
| Directed by |
Hettie MacDonald Sheree Folkson |
| Starring |
Chloë Sevigny Peter Wight Jonas Armstrong Vincent Regan Ben Crompton Karla Crome Reece Noi Jorden Bennie Roma Christensen Thomas Prosser |
| Composer(s) | Dickon Hinchliffe |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Huw Kennair-Jones Paul Abbott Nicola Shindler |
| Producer(s) | Juliet Charlesworth |
| Cinematography | David Luther |
| Editor(s) | Celia Haining Joe Randall-Cutler |
| Running time | 43–45 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
AbbottVision Red Production Company |
| Distributor | FremantleMedia Enterprises |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sky Atlantic |
| Original release | 22 May – 26 June 2012 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Hit & Miss is a British television series created by Paul Abbott broadcast on Sky Atlantic. It stars Chloë Sevigny as a transgender contract killer who discovers she has a child with her former lover. She struggles between caring for her newfound family and maintaining her job as an assassin.
The show was conceived by Abbott as a combination of two ideas for separate TV series. All six episodes were scripted by Sean Conway. The series is Sky Atlantic's first original drama commission. It premiered on 22 May 2012, in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it premiered on DirecTV's Audience Network on 11 July 2012.
On 4 September 2012, the web site TVWise published a rumor that Sky Atlantic had cancelled Hit & Miss. Sky Atlantic later contacted TVWise and stated that Hit & Miss was commissioned as a self-contained drama, implying that renewal was never an option.
Mia, a preoperative transgender woman, works as a contract killer. She discovers that she fathered a son, Ryan, with her ex-girlfriend Wendy, who recently has died from cancer. Mia is named by the mother as guardian of the boy and his three half-siblings, who live in a rural farmhouse in Yorkshire. While continuing to work as an assassin, Mia learns to cope with being in a parental role.
Hit & Miss was commissioned as one of Sky Atlantic's first original series when the channel was launched in February 2011. Series creator Paul Abbott said the show combined separate ideas for "two series that shouldn't automatically fit together". He said there were two projects on his desk: one about a transsexual mother of five, which he had previously tackled in Mrs In-Betweeny, the other about a hitman. He was having difficulty developing the first one because "the penis became an obstructive prop – it seemed that was all there was to talk about." Instead, he decided to combine both. Abbott passed on the idea to writer Sean Conway, whose research for the series involved "strange Google lists detailing sex changes and hand guns". Abbott expected Sky Atlantic to resist commissioning the series, but was surprised at the channel's open-mindedness.
The series was filmed in Manchester. Sevigny compared the experience to "making a small low-budget independent film for five months, which can be trying." Some scenes contain full-frontal nudity by Sevigny (with prosthetic male genitalia) that were regarded as non-gratuitous and integral to the storyline.
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