Dark Heart (TV series)

Dark Heart
Genre	Crime drama
Based on	Will Wagstaffe series by Adam Creed
Written by	Chris Lang Ben Harris
Directed by	Colin Teague
Starring	Tom Riley Anjli Mohindra Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Tom Brooke Jason Maza Michele Austin Alex Carter Gregg Chillin Charlotte Riley Miranda Raison Joseph Teague Edward Akrout Christopher Fulford
Composer	Dan Jones
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producers	Kate Bartlett Michael Dawson Chris Lang
Producers	Chris Clough Letitia Knight
Cinematography	Sam McCurdy & Ed Moore
Editor	Phil Hookway
Running time	120 minutes (Pilot) 60 minutes (Series)
Production company	Silverprint Pictures
Original release
Network	ITV Encore ITV
Release	9 November 2016 (2016-11-09) – 15 November 2018 (2018-11-15)
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Dark Heart is a British television crime drama series, based on the Will Wagstaffe novels by writer Adam Creed, that first broadcast on 9 November 2016.^[1] The series stars Tom Riley as DI Will Wagstaffe, a police detective haunted by the unsolved double murder of his parents when he was just sixteen years old.^[2] A single feature-length pilot, based on the novel Suffer the Children, was written by Chris Lang and directed by Colin Teague. It first broadcast on ITV Encore on 9 November 2016.^[3] The initial pilot co-stars Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Tom Brooke, Anjli Mohindra, Charlotte Riley and Miranda Raison.

Following strong audience reception, a series of six hour-long episodes was commissioned in December 2017, with filming taking place in Spring 2018. The series consists of four newly-written episodes alongside the pilot, which has been re-edited, with some scenes re-shot, to form the first two episodes of the series.^[4] Lang returned to pen the four new episodes; including two which were co-written by Ben Harris. Teague returned as director.

Jason Maza, Michele Austin, Alex Carter and Gregg Chillin joined the cast following the departures of Brooke and Holdbrook-Smith, who was unable to return to the series because of other filming commitments. Due to the closure of ITV Encore in March 2018, the series transmitted on ITV, alongside a number of other projects originally set for broadcast on Encore.^[5] The series began broadcasting on 31 October 2018, with episodes shown on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 pm.