Bancroft (TV series)

Bancroft is a British television thriller series that began airing on ITV on 11 December 2017 and concluded on 14 December 2017.^[1] The series was produced by Tall Story Pictures for ITV, and distributed worldwide by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.^[2] It was created and written by Kate Brooke.^[3] A second series was broadcast from 1 January 2020 to 3 January 2020.^[4] On 3 November ITV cancelled Bancroft after two series.^[5]

Bancroft
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Genre	Crime Drama
Created by	Kate Brooke
Directed by	John Hayes Lawrence Gough
Starring	Sarah Parish Adam Long Adrian Edmondson Lee Boardman Charles Babalola
Composer	Edmund Butt
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	7
Production
Executive producers	Kate Brooke Patrick Schweitzer Catherine Oldfield
Producers	Phil Collinson (S1) Simon Meyers (S2)
Production company	Tall Story Pictures
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	11 December 2017 (2017-12-11) – 3 January 2020 (2020-01-03)

Synopsis

Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft (Parish) finds out her colleague, DS Katherine Stevens (Marsay) was given a cold case to solve who really killed Laura Fraser (Sacofsky) back in 1990. The investigation ties back into Bancroft's own dark past.

Cast

Main cast

• Sarah Parish as Detective Superintendent / Detective Chief Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft^[6]
• Adam Long as Joe Bancroft
• Adrian Edmondson as Superintendent Clifford Walker
• Lee Boardman as Detective Inspector George Morris
• Charles Babalola as Detective Sergeant Andy Bevan
• Ryan McKen as Danesh Kamara
• Shameem Ahmad as Naila Kamara

Series 1 (2017)

• Faye Marsay as Detective Sergeant Katherine Stevens
• Amara Karan as Dr. Anya Karim
• Art Malik as Chief Superintendent Alan Taheeri
• Linus Roache as Tim Fraser
• Lily Sacofsky as Laura Fraser
• Anjli Mohindra as Zaheera Kamara

Series 2 (2020)

• David Avery as Detective Superintendent Jake Harper
• Jacqueline Boatswain as Chief Constable Frances Holland
• James Quinn as Detective Sergeant Richard Potter
• Yemisi Oyinloye as Detective Constable Sally Reed
• Charlotte Hope as Annabel Connors

Episodes

Series overview

Series	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	4		11 December 2017 (2017-12-11)	14 December 2017 (2017-12-14)
2	3		1 January 2020 (2020-01-01)	3 January 2020 (2020-01-03)

Series 1 (2017)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.K. viewers (millions)
1	"1.1"	John Hayes	Kate Brooke	11 December 2017 (2017-12-11)	8.35
2	"1.2"	John Hayes	Kate Brooke	12 December 2017 (2017-12-12)	7.07
3	"1.3"	John Hayes	Kate Brooke & Ben Morris	13 December 2017 (2017-12-13)	7.03
4	"1.4"	John Hayes	Kate Brooke	14 December 2017 (2017-12-14)	7.27

Series 2 (2020)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.K. viewers (millions)
1	"2.1"	Lawrence Gough	Kate Brooke & Ben Morris	1 January 2020 (2020-01-01)	5.92
2	"2.2"	Lawrence Gough	Kate Brooke & Ben Morris	2 January 2020 (2020-01-02)	4.63
3	"2.3"	Lawrence Gough	Kate Brooke & Ben Morris	3 January 2020 (2020-01-03)	5.01

References

1. "Bancroft - Watch episodes, ITV". Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
2. "Sarah Parish returns as Bancroft in a second series of the psychological thriller". Press Centre. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
3. Power, Ed (14 December 2017). "Bancroft, episode 4, review: a deliriously over-the-top finale". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
4. "When is Bancroft back on TV?". Radio Times. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
5. "Bancroft axed by ITV after 2 series". MSN.
6. "Meet the cast of Bancroft". Radio Times. Retrieved 15 December 2017.

External links

• Bancroft at IMDb