Season 1
Channel |
Premiere |
Finale |
TX Time |
Episodes |
BBC One
|
04 May 2010 |
08 Jun 2010 |
Tuesdays, 21h00 - 22h00 |
6 |
BBC America
|
17 Oct 2010 |
21 Nov 2010 |
Sundays, 22h00 - 23h00 |
6 |
BBC Entertainment
|
28 Feb 2011 |
04 Apr 2011 |
Mondays, 20h30 - 21h30 |
6 |
SABC3
|
05 Apr 2012 |
10 May 2012 |
Thursdays, 20h00 - 21h00 |
6 |
Season 2
Channel |
Premiere |
Finale |
TX Time |
Episodes |
BBC One
|
14 Jun 2011 |
05 Jul 2011 |
Tuesdays, 21h00 - 22h00 |
4 |
BBC America
|
28 Sep 2011 |
19 Oct 2011 |
Wednesdays, 22h00 - 23h00 |
4 |
BBC Entertainment
|
11 Jun 2012 |
02 Jul 2012 |
Mondays, 20h00 - 21h00 |
4 |
SABC3
|
10 Sep 2024 |
17 Sep 2024 |
Monday-Wednesday, 21h00 |
4 |
Season 3
Channel |
Premiere |
Finale |
TX Time |
Episodes |
BBC One
|
02 Jul 2013 |
23 Jul 2013 |
Tuesdays, 21h00 - 22h00 |
4 |
BBC America
|
03 Sep 2013 |
06 Sep 2013 |
Weekdays, 22h00 - 23h00 |
4 |
BBC Entertainment
|
29 Dec 2013 |
30 Dec 2013 |
Sunday / Monday, 20h30 (double bill) |
4 |
SABC3
|
18 Sep 2024 |
25 Sep 2024 |
Monday-Wednesday, 21h00 |
4 |
Season 4
Channel |
Premiere |
Finale |
TX Time |
Episodes |
BBC One
|
15 Dec 2015 |
22 Dec 2015 |
Tuesdays, 21h00 - 22h00 |
2 |
BBC America
|
17 Dec 2015 |
17 Dec 2015 |
Thursday, 21h00 (double bill) |
2 |
BBC First
|
22 Mar 2017 |
29 Mar 2017 |
Wednesdays, 20h00 - 21h00 |
2 |
SABC3
|
30 Sep 2024 |
01 Oct 2024 |
Monday-Wednesday, 21h00 |
2 |
Season 5
Channel |
Premiere |
Finale |
TX Time |
Episodes |
BBC One
|
01 Jan 2019 |
04 Jan 2019 |
Daily, 21h00 - 22h00 |
4 |
BBC First
|
27 Jan 2019 |
17 Feb 2019 |
Sundays, 21h00 - 22h00 |
4 |
SABC3
|
02 Oct 2024 |
08 Oct 2024 |
Monday-Wednesday, 21h00 |
4 |
Starring Cast
Idris Elba is an English actor best known for his starring role as crime boss Russell "Stringer" Bell in the HBO crime series The Wire, from 2002-2004
Ruth Wilson is an English actress best known for her BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated performance in the title role of the 2006 BBC mini-series Jane Eyre
Steven Mackintosh is a British actor best known for his role in the British film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and for his starring role as DCI Ian Reed in the first season of the crime procedural television series Luther, in 2010
Indira Varma is an English actress best known for her role as Niobe in the period drama television series Rome, from 2005-2007
Paul McGann is an English actor best known for his role as Marwood in the 1987 cult film Withnail and I, and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie and subsequent tie-in media
Saskia Reeves (born 1961) is a British actress perhaps best known for her roles in the films Close My Eyes (1991) and ID (1995), and the 2000 mini-series Dune
Warren Brown is an English actor and former professional thaiboxer best known for his role as Andy Holt in the teen soap Hollyoaks and as Lee Hibbs in the BBC Drama Occupation, in 2009
Dermot Crowley is an Irish actor best known for his role as General Crix Madine in the 1983 feature film Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Michael Smiley is an Irish comedian and actor best known for his television roles as Phil Squod in Bleak House (2005), as Dr
Nikki Amuka-Bird is a Nigerian-born English actress best known for her leading role as Samantha Willis - the last surviving member of the government - in the reimagined BBC apocalyptic series Survivors, from 2008-2010
Aimee-Ffion Edwards is a Welsh actress best known for her television roles as Sketch on Skins (2008) and as Jenny Jones on Luther, since 2011
Kierston Wareing (born 1978) is a British actress best known for her roles in the feature films It's a Free World
Pam Ferris is a British actress best known for her role as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May and for playing Laura Thyme in Rosemary and Thyme.
David Dawson is an English actor best known for his television roles as Byron in Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2010) and as Toby Kent in Luther, in 2011
Sienna Guillory is an English actress and former model best known for playing the title role in the television miniseries Helen of Troy, for her role as Jill Valentine in the science fiction action horror films Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Afterlife and Resident Evil: Retribution; as elf princess Arya Dröttningu in fantasy-adventure film Eragon
David O'Hara is a Scottish actor best known for his starring role as Det
Darren Boyd is an English actor known for his starring roles in numerous television shows including Kiss Me Kate, Smack The Pony, Watching Ellie, Green Wing, The Jane Show, Saxondale and Spy
Rose Leslie is a Scottish actress best known for her starring role as wildling Ygritte in the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones.
Laura Haddock is an English actress best known for her starring role as Lucrezia Donati, wife, mistress and celebrated beauty of Florence, in the historical fantasy drama television series Da Vinci's Demons
Patrick Malahide is an English actor best known for his starring role as Detective Sergeant Albert 'Charlie' Chisholm in the comedy-drama crime series Minder, from 1979-1988
Wunmi Mosaku is a Nigerian-born British actress best known for her role as Joy in the BBC Two mini-series Moses Jones, in 2009
Enzo Cilenti is an English actor best known for his recurring television roles as Evander Pulchio in Rome (2005) and as Mick in Prisoners' Wives, in 2013
Hermione Norris (born 1968) is an English atress best known for her television roles as Karen Marsden in Cold Feet (known in South Africa as Life, Love & Everything Else), as DCI Carol Jordan in Wire in the Blood (2002-2005), and as Ros Myers in Spooks, since 2006