Jericho is a period drama mini-series created and written by Steve Thompson and directed by Paul Whittington. The eight-part series premiered on ITV between 7 January and 25 February 2016.
It is set in the fictional town of Jericho, a shanty town in the Yorkshire Dales of England, which springs up around the construction of a railway viaduct in the 1870s. The series re-imagines the story of the building of the Ribblehead Viaduct, which is renamed the Culverdale Viaduct in the show.
In April 2016 ITV confirmed that a second series of the show was not going to be commissioned.
The series is available via streaming video in the USA on Acorn TV, beginning 11 July 2016.
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Premise
The series focuses upon the shanty town of Jericho, home to a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they have been brought together to build.
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Cast
- Jessica Raine as Annie Quaintain, a widow with teenage children.
- Hans Matheson as Johnny Jackson, a navvy. It is discovered later in the series his real name is John Blackwood.
- Clarke Peters as Ralph Coates, a railway agent.
- Mark Addy as Earl Bamford, a detective.
- Dean Andrews as 'Happy' Jack Laggan, a navvy gang leader.
- Lorraine Ashbourne as Lace Polly, a prostitute.
- Amy James-Kelly as Martha Quaintain, Annie's daughter
- Samuel Bottomley as George Quaintain, Annie's son
- Daniel Rigby as Charles Blackwood.
- Jeany Spark as Isabella Lambton.
- Phil Cornwell as Joe Capstick
Production
Scenes were shot around Huddersfield, specifically Golcar, at the Colne Valley Museum, and on the moors above Meltham and Marsden. The main setting for the shanty town was Rockingstone Quarry.
Episodes
Series 1 (2016)
References
External links
- Jericho on IMDb
Source of article : Wikipedia
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