Vexed
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| Genre |
Comedy-drama Police procedural |
| Created by | Howard Overman |
| Starring |
Toby Stephens Miranda Raison (Series 2-) Roger Griffiths Ronny Jhutti Nick Dunning Rory Kinnear (Series 1) Lucy Punch (Series 1) |
| Composer(s) | Willie Dowling Ray Harman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 9 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jill Green Simon Wilson (Series 1) Chris Sussman (Series 2-) |
| Producer(s) | Eve Gutierrez Carolyn Parry Jones (Series 1) |
| Cinematography | Tim Palmer Peter Robinson |
| Editor(s) | Charlie Phillips |
| Running time | 55 - 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Greenlit Rights Productions Eleventh Hour Films |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC Two BBC HD |
| Original release | 15 August 2010 – 5 September 2012 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Vexed is a British comedy-drama, police procedural television series for BBC Two. Created and written by Howard Overman, the first series stars Lucy Punch as D.I. Kate Bishop and Toby Stephens as D.I. Jack Armstrong, a detective duo with a fractious relationship. Jack is lazy and disorganised but charming whereas Kate is efficient and usually exasperated by Jack's way of doing things. The show also starred Rory Kinnear who plays Kate's husband Dan, with whom she is going through marriage counselling. Other recurring characters are Naz, an eccentric crime scene specialist, and Tony, owner of the bar at which the characters relax. The drama is set in contemporary London.
In the second series (first announced on 18 January 2012) Lucy Punch and Rory Kinnear did not return. Lucy's character was replaced by Miranda Raison playing D.I. Georgina Dixon, with Nick Dunning playing her father, a retired policeman with a dubious security business.
The series was filmed in South West London, in particular Kingston upon Thames, Richmond on Thames, and Twickenham, with some of the second series filmed in Ireland
The first series was produced by Greenlit Rights Productions and the second is produced by Eleventh Hour Films.
During the UK transmission of the programme in July 2010, it was reported that Greenlit had entered administration.
The theme tune for the series one was composed by Willie Dowling, former keyboardist with rock group The Wildhearts.
The series received an arguably mixed response from critics.
The Liverpool Echo's Paddy Shennan called it "deliciously black" and added that it could become a "cop classic". He also praised Stephens's performance, likening it to Leslie Nielsen's in The Naked Gun.The Guardian's Sam Wollaston also liked it, saying "It's cheeky, irreverent, puerile, sometimes inappropriate It also made me laugh, almost out loud a few times, and that's no bad thing in a comedy" and again praised Stephens's acting, saying he was "fabulous", while Punch's performance was "excellent".
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