Broadchurch is a popular TV series, that received very positive comments both from critics and the viewers.
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- The story follows a seemingly calm and friendly seaside town, that becomes a town wrapped in secrets when the death of an eleven year old boy sparks an unwanted media frenzy. As the town’s locals start to open up about what they do and don’t know, it falls upon the police to catch the supposed killer.
- The two main detectives are Alec Hardy, and Ellie Miller.
- They are portrayed by David Tennant, and Olivia Collman accordingly.
- Broadchurch belongs to the crime, drama, and mystery genres.
- There is a popular belief, that Broadchurch is based on or is a remake of Danish show Forbrydelsen (2007),and the script for Broadchurch actually predates The Killing by at least five years.
- That’s not true.
- Chris Chibnall originally had the idea for Broadchurch and started working on the script in 2002.
- However, it took him ten years to get the show on air.
- Throughout the series, all the mobile phones used by Alec Hardy are all David Tennant’s real life mobile phones.
- By the end of its first series, it had built an audience to 8.7 million.
- Series 3 received nearly 11 million views.
- This made Broadchurch ITV’s most watched crime drama.
- Wessex Crown Court building is actually Exeter University.
- Features three actors who have portrayed The Doctor in the long running sci-fi series Doctor Who.
- David Tennant (Alec Hardy) portrayed The Tenth Doctor between 2005 and 2010.
- David Bradley (Jack Marshall) portrayed The First Doctor (originally portrayed by William Hartnell) in the 2017 Christmas Special alongside Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi, who will regenerate into incoming Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker (Beth Latimer).
- Broadchurch has 24 wins, and 26 nominations.
- Broadchurch won the award for best Crime Drama at National Television Awards in early 2018.
- This was the first year the award was presented.
- Broadchurch was competing really popular TV series such as Sherlock.
- Julie Hesmondhalgh (Trish Winterman) was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.
- She lost to Vanessa Kirby from The Crown.
- Broadchurch series one was nominated for and won many additional awards, including honours at the Freesat Awards, TV Choice Awards, National TV Awards, Broadcast Awards, Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Awards and the Royal Television Society Awards.
- It also won a Peabody Award for its distinguished and meritorious contributions to excellence in quality television.
- The premiere episode of series two drew an average of 7.3 million viewers for a 30.1 percent share on 5 January 2015.
- An average of 300,000 viewers watched it on ITV+1 an hour later.
- The episode opened with 6.8 million viewers at 9 pm, and ended with 8.7 million viewers.
- The peak viewership was 8.9 million.
- Broadchurch was the second-most-watched programme of the evening, with the most-watched being Coronation Street (1960).
- A U.S. remake in one season, Gracepoint (2014), also created by Chris Chibnall and starring David Tennant, aired in 2014 on Fox.
- A French adaptation titled Malaterra (2015) (fr) was produced by France 2 and aired in 2015.
- David Tennant had also played Barty Crouch in Harry Potter movies.
- Season two was announced when the first season ended.
- The second season primarily focuses on two plot strands: the trial of the murderer and the reopening of the Sandbrook case.
- David Tennant (Alec Hardy), Olivia Colman (Ellie Miller) and most of the cast of season one returned for season two.
- The first season has numerous links to another British TV programme -Doctor Who (2005).
- Writer Chris Chibnall wrote a number of episodes.
- Also, Euros Lyn and James Strong have directed various episodes of the show.
- Olivia Colman is a also a guest star on Doctor Who playing the The Eleventh Hour.
- David Bradley also played William Hartnell (1st Doctor) in Adventure In Time And Space and the 1st Doctor in the Doctor Falls and 2017 Christmas Special.
- Jonathan Bailey playing Ollie Stevens also guest stars in Doctor Who as Psi in Time Heist.
- Broadchurch series one was nominated for seven BAFTA awards.
- Olivia Colman (Ellie Miller) won Best Actress, David Bradley (Jack Marshall) won Best Supporting Actor, and the show was named Best Drama Series.
- The show competed for the BAFTA Audience Award, but lost to Doctor Who.
- Fun fact: David Tennant also starred in there.
- At the BAFTA Craft Awards, Ólafur Arnalds won Best Original Television Music, while James Strong was nominated for Best Director-Fiction
- David Tennant and James D’Arcy are both in the Marvel Universe, as David Tennant played the villain Kilgrave, and James D’Arcy played Edwin Jarvis.
- Olivia Colman and Phoebe Waller-Bridge co-starred in Fleabag.
- Almost all of the actors in season one took their parts with the understanding that they might be Danny (Oskar McNamara)’s killer.
- Only Jodie Whittaker, who played the victims mother, was told definitely that she wasn’t .
- Shee was the only one who knew from the beginning who the killer was.
- According to creator Chris Chibnall, “Jodie asked me around episode six of series one, ‘Am I a grieving mother or a secret killer crying crocodile tears?’ I told her it wasn’t her, but only then.”
- The chocolate lab who accompanies Susan Wright – and Nigel threatens to kill – belongs to Pauline Quirke, the actress who plays Wright.
- The dog’s real name is Bailey.
- Broadchurch’s 3rd season has a totally different plot.
- DS Ellie Miller and DI Alec Hardy are called in to investigate a serious sexual assault in the Dorset community.
- Broadchurch had totally 3 seasons.
- It aired from the 4rth of March 2013 until 17th of April 2017.
- One of the TV series’ goof was that in the UK court procedures a witness would not be allowed to view proceedings until they have given evidence.
- Throughout the trial characters are in the public gallery prior to being called to give evidence.
