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television thriller serial, first broadcast on ITV in 2014. Written by

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, directed by

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and starring

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and

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, ''Undeniable'' follows the story of Andrew Rawlins, a murderer who is brought to justice by the efforts of a woman, Jane Phillips, who witnessed him kill her mother when she was seven years old. The two-part thriller was announced on 1 November 2013, with location filming confirmed to take place later that month in

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. The thriller was released on DVD on 2 March 2015.

Critical reception

Ellen Jones, writing for ''

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'', said of the series

''Undeniable'', which began on ITV last night, is the televisual equivalent of those paperback thrillers you buy in the airport and chuck away at your destination: serviceably diverting in the moment, instantly forgettable afterwards.
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might not look back on playing Jane Phillips as a high point in her career, but she’s believable enough as our heroine, a happily married woman, pregnant with her second child. As a seven-year-old, Jane was the only witness to her mother’s murder and now, many years later, she believes she’s spotted the man responsible and is determined to bring him to justice. Jane might have an easier time of it, if the man she’d fingered for this crime wasn’t a well-respected consultant oncologist and all-round affable chap. Andrew Rawlins (
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) also has a fiercely loyal daughter, Emma (
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), who just happens to be a criminal lawyer. For his part, Jane’s dad Pete (
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) said he’d support his daughter, but he didn’t look too convinced. There was also the awkward matter of Jane’s history of mental instability, and the two false accusations she’d made previously. At least her husband will stand by her. At least until he finds out she came off her anti-depressants and the contraceptive pill in a deliberate attempt to become pregnant with a son, just like her mother was when she died. Writer Chris Lang’s script diligently ensured that even by the very end of this episode the story’s ultimate resolution remained unguessable, but just a few more hints or red herrings might have made the prospect of episode two more tantalising. Is Rawlins actually a cold-blooded murderer? Or is Jane just hysterical? Preferably, the truth will turn out to be some diabolical combination of the two.

Cast

as Jane Fielding *

as Andrew Rawlins *

as Emma Rawlins *

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as DI Alison Hall * Nick Lee as DS Mark Renwick * Shashi Rami as DSI Vikram Singh *

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as Beth Rawlins * Robert Thompson as Max Rawlins *

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as Pete Phillips *

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as Rob Feilding * Alisha Kelly as Young Jane Phillips

Episodes

References

External links

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