Friday, 17 June 2011

Crime Documentaries

I have started to explore crime documentaries and I found 'The Lock Up'.
  • It is an observational documentary series, which follows the staff of the custody suite at Priory Road Police Station in Hull.
  • First broadcast 4th February, 2011, on BBC Three. It was an eight-part series and was filmed over the course of a year; during the year, when around 6,500 prisoners passed through the suite, and the issues custody officers had to deal with included attempted suicides and a range of troubled people including drug addicts, minors and violent individuals.
  • Show is narrated by Anna Baatz.
  • It was executive produced was Julian Mercer and produced by Rachel Morgan.
  • Lucy Mangan, writing for The Guardian, described the show as a "lesser version" of Channel 4's Coppers. Also writing for The Guardian, Phelim O'Neill said that "plain-speaking Humberside custody officers provide the commentary on the never-ending tide of all human life that passes through their care". 
(informtation taken from wikipedia 17/06/11, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lock_Up_(television_series)

Here is a link to the last episode of 'The Lock Up', (episode eight out of eight).
The Lock Up

As 'The Lock Up' has been compared with 'Coppers', I will now research this crime documentary in order to more widely textually analyse crime documentaries.

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