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Luther

Genres: Drama, Police Procedural
Broadcast on: SABC3, BBC Entertainment, BBC First

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Seasons

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

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

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

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


Starring Cast

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DCI John Luther

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

8.3


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Alice Morgan

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

8.3


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DCI Ian Reed

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

7.6


as
Zoe Luther

Indira Varma is an English actress best known for her role as Niobe in the period drama television series Rome, from 2005-2007

8.0


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Mark North

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

8.0


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DSU Rose Teller

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

8.0


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DS Justin Ripley

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

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DCI Martin Schenk

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

7.0


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Benny Silver

Michael Smiley is an Irish comedian and actor best known for his television roles as Phil Squod in Bleak House (2005), as Dr

7.0


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DS Erin Gray

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

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Jenny Jones

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

7.0


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Caroline Jones

Kierston Wareing (born 1978) is a British actress best known for her roles in the feature films It's a Free World

7.0


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Baba

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.

7.3


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Toby Kent

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

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Mary Day

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

7.5


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DSU George Stark

David O'Hara is a Scottish actor best known for his starring role as Det

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DCI Theo Bloom

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

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DS Emma Lane

Rose Leslie is a Scottish actress best known for her starring role as wildling Ygritte in the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones.

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Megan Cantor

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

7.0


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George Cornelius

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

7.5


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DS Catherine Halliday

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

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Jeremy Lake

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

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Vivien Lake

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

8.3


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