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DCI Banks

Genres: Drama, Anthology Series
Broadcast on: BBC Entertainment, BBC First

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Seasons

Season 1

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
ITV	16 Sep 2011	21 Oct 2011	Fridays	6
BBC Entertainment	14 Jun 2013	28 Jun 2013	Fridays, 20h00 - 21h45	6

Season 2

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
ITV	10 Oct 2012	08 Nov 2012	Wednesdays	6
BBC Entertainment	05 Jul 2013	19 Jul 2013	Fridays, 20h00 - 21h45	6

Season 3

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
ITV	03 Feb 2014	10 Mar 2014	Mondays	6
BBC Entertainment	24 Oct 2014	28 Nov 2014	Fridays, 20h00 - 21h45	6

Season 4

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
ITV	04 Mar 2015	08 Apr 2015	Wednesdays, 21h00 - 22h00	6
BBC First	25 Mar 2016	08 Apr 2016	Fridays, 20h00 (double bill)	6

Season 5

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
ITV	31 Aug 2016	05 Oct 2016	Wednesdays, 21h00 - 22h00	6
BBC First	03 Mar 2017	07 Apr 2017	Fridays, 20h00 - 21h00	6

Starring Cast

Stephen Tompkinson

DCI Alan Banks

Stephen Tompkinson is an English actor best known for his television roles as Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel (1996-1998), as Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey (1990-1998), as the title character in DCI Banks (2010-2011) and as Danny Trevanion in Wild at Heart, since 2006

8.3

Andrea Lowe

DS Annie Cabbot

Andrea Lowe is an English actress best known for her starring role as feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot, who strikes up a relationship with Banks and decides to transfer to his division when a post becomes available, in the crime drama television series DCI Banks

7.0

Lorraine Burroughs

DS Winsome Jackman

Lorraine Burroughs is an English actress best known for her starring role as DS Winsome Jackman, a young sergeant who has been one of Banks' protégés for some time, in the crime drama television series DCI Banks

7.0

Jack Deam

DC Ken Blackstone

Jack Deam is an English actor best known for his role as Marty Fisher in the television drama series Shameless, from 2004-2007

7.0

Colin Tierney

Chief Supt Gerry Rydell

Colin Tierney is an English actor best known for his starring role as Chief Supt Gerry Rydell, a high-flying officer who rose through the ranks and found himself as Superintendent just two years after he joined the force, in the crime drama television series DCI Banks

7.0

Tom Shaw

DC Kevin Templeton

Tom Shaw is an English actor best known for his starring role as DC Kevin Templeton, a young constable who had only been in the job for six months and in an attempt to gain evidence on a serial killer puts himself undercover, in the crime drama television series DCI Banks

6.0

Nick Sidi

CS McLaughlin

Nick Sidi is an English actor best known for his starring role as CS Ron McLaughlin, who is given the superintendent's job on the recommendation of the chief commissioner, in the crime drama television series DCI Banks

7.0

Caroline Catz

DI Helen Morton

Caroline Catz is an English actress best known for her starring role as primary school headmistress Louisa Glasson in the comedy-drama television series Doc Martin

8.0

Danny Rahim

DC Tariq Lang

Danny Rahim is an English actor best known for his starring role as Mac Rendell, a charming and cheeky British ex-pat with a taste for danger and an extensive knowledge of firearms, in the science fiction television series Primeval: New World, from 2012-2013

7.0

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