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The Children is a three-part thriller first shown on ITV on 1 September 2008. Starring Kevin Whately and Geraldine Somerville , and written by Lucy Gannon , the story focuses on the murder of an eight-year-old girl, who is found on the patio of her home, and the subsequent investigation to discover which one of the adults who cared for her could have killed her.
The Children is a three-part thriller first shown on ITV on 1 September 2008. Starring Kevin Whately and Geraldine Somerville, and written by Lucy Gannon, the story focuses on the murder of an eight-year-old girl, who is found on the patio of her home, and the subsequent investigation to discover which one of the adults who cared for her could have killed her.
The Children: With Kevin Whately, Geraldine Somerville, Ian Puleston-Davies, Lesley Sharp. An eight year old girl is found murdered on the patio of her home. Any one of the adults who care for her could have killed her, but which one?
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- 2008-09-01
- Drama
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The series is named after the lead character, a half-Icelandic half-Danish police officer named Hallgrim Ørn Hallgrimsson, nicknamed "Ørnen" (the eagle). In the first episode, a new international criminal investigative unit is being formed under Thea Nellemann ( Ghita Nørby ), and Hallgrimsson ( Jens Albinus ) is persuaded to take the job as the lead investigator for the unit.
- Crime Drama , Police Procedural
- Background
- 1950–1969
- 1982–1994
- Mergers with Other Comics
Eagle was founded by John Marcus Harston Morris (1915–1989). Morris was born in the Lancashire town of Preston, and in 1918 moved to Southport. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford with a second-class degree in Literae Humaniores, and at Wycliffe Hall gained a second in theology in 1939. He became a priest the following year, and served as a...
In October that year Morris sold The Anvil—by then selling about 3,560 copies monthly—for £1,250, plus a £200 annual contract to continue as editor.[nb 3] Morris wanted to produce a comic the pages of which would be filled with role models whose behaviour and moral outlook he felt was socially desirable. Foreigners would not be depicted as either e...
A modified Dan Dare was briefly featured in IPC Media's 2000 AD (1977–1979). The public reaction to this, along with news of a planned television series, persuaded IPC's comic arm Fleetway to relaunch Eaglein 1982, as a weekly comic edited by Dave Hunt. The first issue was dated 27 March 1982. The original Dan Dare was no longer a feature of the co...
In the twentieth century it was standard practice in the British comics industry to merge a comic into another one when it declined in sales. Typically, a few stories from the cancelled comic would continue for a while in the surviving comic, and both titles would appear on the cover (one in a smaller font than the other) until the title of the can...
Cameron and his son Jack move in with young Emily and her mother. Emily's father has had a new baby with his new partner, and Jack struggles to get on with his mother Ann, his father, and his new step family.
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