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Informer (TV Series)
''Informer'' is a British television drama series, created and written by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani and produced by Neal Street Productions for the BBC. The six-part series stars Paddy Considine, Bel Powley, Nabhaan Rizwan, and Jessica Raine. The series began broadcasting on BBC One on 16 October 2018. Amazon Prime Video agreed to a distribution deal to broadcast the show outside the United Kingdom and Ireland. In Belgium, Canvas started broadcasting the series on 27 April 2019. Synopsis Raza (Nabhaan Rizwan) is a young second-generation British Pakistani man from London who is coerced into informing by Gabe (Paddy Considine), an officer in the (fictional) Counter-Terrorism Special Unit (CTSU). His newfound role in national security leads him into a variety of dangerous situations and alliances, and a struggle to balance both his civilian lifestyle and be the person that his family knows, as well of that of a police informer. Cast * Paddy Considine as DS Gab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. Most crime drama focuses on criminal investigation and does not feature the courtroom. Suspense and Mystery fiction, mystery are key elements that are nearly ubiquitous to the genre. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction and science fiction, but the boundaries are indistinct. Crime fiction has several subgenres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, hardboiled, hard-boiled fiction, and legal thrillers. History Proto-science and crime fictions have been composed across history, and in this category can be placed texts as varied as the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia, the Mahabharata from History of India, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Street Productions
Neal Street Productions is a British film, television and theatre production company founded by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling in 2003. History The company was set up in 2003 by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling. Its offices are located in a converted warehouse on Neal Street in Covent Garden, London. Nicolas Brown joined in 2013 to work across the film and TV portfolio. The company's movies include '' Revolutionary Road'', '' Jarhead'' and '' Starter for 10''. Their TV dramas include the award-winning '' Stuart: A Life Backwards'' with Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch, ''Penny Dreadful'' and ''Call the Midwife''. In theatre Neal Street has produced ''The Bridge Project'', '' Shrek The Musical'' and the musical adaptation of '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''. More recently in 2017/8, Neal Street has produced '' The Ferryman'' written by Jez Butterworth, directed by Sam Mendes. Also written by Jez Butterworth, Neal Street produced ''Britannia'' which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Rider
Elizabeth Rider is an English actress. Her career is marked by diverse roles in numerous television dramas. Education She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was awarded its Gold Medal. From there, Elizabeth joined the Radio Drama Company after winning the Carleton Hobbs Bursary, which gave her a contract for six months. Career Rider's first television acting job was as Nora in the 1979 series '' Testament of Youth''. In 1997, she landed the role of Sheila Thwaite in ''The Lakes''. In 1999, she appeared in ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' as Ashley Peacock's biological mother. In 2004, she had a ten-episode role playing Jill Green in ''EastEnders''. Rider appeared in Series Two and Three of the drama '' At Home with the Braithwaites'' in 2001 and 2002, as Helen Braithwaite. She also voiced Atris in the video game '' Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords''. She appeared in five episodes in Series 23 of the long-running medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arinzé Kene
Arinzé Mokwe Kene () is a Nigerian-born British actor and playwright. Early life Kene was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1987 and moved to London when he was four. Kene's father was a taxi driver. Kene was bullied growing up and was encouraged to take kickboxing lessons. When he turned 16, he started his amateur kickboxing career and went on to win two national championships. He quit kickboxing at 21 years old and went on to pursue an acting career. Career Kene has appeared in stage productions such as playing Simba in ''The Lion King'', '' Daddy Cool'', and in June 2009 played strutting lothario ''Raymond LeGrendre'' in the musical '' Been So Long'', based on Ché Walker's 1998 play, which opened at the Young Vic. Kene also plays the lead in 2010 UK Film Council feature ''Freestyle''. In 2010, he joined the cast of the BBC's ''EastEnders'' as Connor Stanley, for which he was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2011 All About Soap Bubble Awards. His play ''Suffocation'' opened a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Tylak
Paul Tylak is an Irish writer, actor and comedian. Personal life Paul Tylak was born to an Irish mother and Sri Lankan father, and grew up between Ireland and England. He attended the now closed De Burgh School in Tadworth, Surrey. He has lived in Tallaght since 2002, and has two children Reuben and Calvin. Writing career Television Like many Irish comedians of his generation, Paul Tylak got his first TV break on the RTÉ show '' Nighthawks'' in the late 1980s. Tylak has since contributed to the writing of the RTÉ sketch comedy series ''Stew'' (2004-2005), which won Best Entertainment Series at the Irish Film and Television Awards in 2005 and at the Celtic Film & Television Festival in 2006, and to ''This Is Ireland'', a comedy sketch series about Ireland made for the BBC in 2004. Radio Tylak wrote and co-starred in two BBC Radio shows, '' The Nualas'' and ''The O'Show'' on BBC. Performing career Television Tylak has appeared in a number of Irish and British TV production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constable
A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in law enforcement. The office of constable can vary significantly in different jurisdictions. ''Constable'' is commonly the rank of an officer within a police service. Other people may be granted powers of a constable without holding this title. Etymology Etymologically, the word ''constable'' is a loan from Old French ''conestable'' (Modern French ''connétable''),p. 93b-283a, T. F. Hoad, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology'' (Oxford University Press, 1993) itself from Late Latin ''comes stabuli'' ( attendant to the stables, literally 'count of the stable'), and originated from the Roman Empire; originally, the constable was the officer responsible for keeping the horses of a lord or monarch.p103, Bruce, Alistair, ''Keepers of the Kingdom'' (Cassell, 2002), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a Metropolitan counties of England, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire to the south, Greater Manchester to the south-west, and Lancashire to the west. The city of Leeds is the largest settlement. The county has an area of and a population of 2.3 million, making it the fourth-largest ceremonial county by population. The centre of the county is urbanised, and contains the city of Leeds in the north-east, the city of Bradford in the north-west, Huddersfield in the south-west, and Wakefield in the south-east. The outer areas of the county are rural. For local government purposes the county comprises five metropolitan boroughs: City of Bradford, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds, Leeds, and City of Wakefield, Wakefield, which collaborate through West Yorkshire Combined Authority. The cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Branch (Metropolitan Police)
Special Branch was a unit in the Metropolitan Police in London, formed as a counter-terrorism unit in 1883 and merged with another unit to form Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) in 2006. It maintained contact with the Security Service (MI5) and had responsibility for, among other things, personal protection of (non-royal) VIPs and performing the role of examining officer at designated ports and airports, as prescribed by the Terrorism Act 2000. History In response to the escalating terror campaign in Britain carried out by the militant Irish Fenians in the 1880s, the Home Secretary Sir William Harcourt established the first counter-terrorism unit ever in 1883, named Special Irish Branch, to combat Irish republican terrorism through infiltration and subversion. It initially formed a section of the Criminal Investigation Department within the London Metropolitan Police. Harcourt envisioned a permanent unit dedicated to the prevention of politically motivated violence throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detective Sergeant
Sergeant (Sgt) is a rank in use by the armed forces of many countries. It is also a police rank in some police services. The alternative spelling, ''serjeant'', is used in The Rifles and in other units that draw their heritage from the British light infantry. The word "sergeant" derives from the Latin , 'one who serves', through the Old French term . In modern hierarchies the term ''sergeant'' refers to a non-commissioned officer positioned above the rank of a corporal, and to a police officer immediately below a lieutenant in the US, and below an inspector in the UK. In most armies, the rank of sergeant corresponds to command of a team/ section, or squad. In Commonwealth armies, it is a more senior rank, corresponding roughly to a platoon second-in-command. In the United States Army, sergeant is a more junior rank corresponding to a fireteam leader or assistant squad-leader; while in the United States Marine Corps the rank is typically held by squad leaders. More ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Informant
An informant (also called an informer or, as a slang term, a "snitch", "rat", "canary", "stool pigeon", "stoolie", "tout" or "grass", among other terms) is a person who provides privileged information, or (usually damaging) information intended to be intimate, concealed, or secret, about a person or organization to an agency, often a government or law enforcement agency. The term is usually used within the law-enforcement world, where informants are officially known as confidential human sources (CHS), or criminal informants (CI). It can also refer pejoratively to someone who supplies information without the consent of the involved parties."The Weakest Link: The Dire Consequences of a Weak Link in the Informant Handling and Covert Operations Chain-of-Command" by M Levine. ''Law Enforcement Executive Forum'', 2009 The term is commonly used in politics, industry, entertainment, and academia. In the United States, a confidential informant or "CI" is "any individual who provides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
