“Revolutionizing crime drama…Not your conventional cop show” –The Guardian

“Absorbing and smart TV” –The Telegraph

“Suspects is that rarest of TV series – a cop show that’s actually about policing rather than its heroes’ troubled private lives” –The Guardian

“The show’s improvised, mockumentary style…makes for vivid, gripping television” –Digitalspy.com

“Refreshing and innovative, stealing fly-on-the-wall-style filming back from spoof reality television to thrilling dramatic effect…all the acting was sterling…sassy, gritty and cynical” –The Telegraph

ACORN TV’s New, Unscripted British Crime Drama

SUSPECTS, SERIES 1 & 2

MAKE U.S. PREMIERE BEGINNING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Innovative, gritty new police drama offers viewers a unique ‘insider’ feel

Silver Spring, MD – Far from your conventional cop show, Emmy®-nominated Acorn TV features the U.S. Premiere of the “unnervingly true-to-life” (The Telegraph) crime drama Suspects, Series 1 & 2 beginning Monday, February 22, 2016. Suspects offers a fresh and original British procedural crime drama set in London that tackles difficult subjects with gritty authenticity. Filmed in the style of a fly-on-the-wall documentary, the series relies on the cast to develop their own dialogue, creating a uniquely realistic tone. Single episodes are shot in two and a half days with a scene being captured in as little as 18 minutes. Series 1 features five episodes and will be added on Monday, February 22, while Series 2 features four episodes and will be added the following week on Monday, February 29. Available at Acorn.TV and on a variety of devices, Acorn TV is the premier streaming service for world-class television from Britain and beyond.

Fay Ripley (Cold Feet, New Tricks, Reggie Perrin), Damien Molony (Being Human, Ripper Street) and Clare-Hope Ashitey (Children of Men, Top Boy) star as East London CID officers. Each episode tells a self-contained crime story. Starting with a news report about the crime, follow the team of detectives as they investigate the circumstances, collect forensics from the crime scene, analyze the evidence, and interview their suspects – until they finally identify and charge the perpetrator.

The crimes are hard-hitting and contemporary ranging from the abduction of a young boy by a pedophile ring, and a brutal hammer assault on a man in his own home, to the hunt for a serial rapist. The team also investigates the source of a batch of deadly drugs, an attempted murder disguised as assisted suicide and the disappearance of a two-year-old child.

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