Peter Davison and Dominic Rowan join the cast of ITV's highly successful drama Law & Order: UK as filming begins on 13 new episodes.
Law & Order: UK is based on Dick Wolf’s groundbreaking US format which remains the most successful brand on primetime U.S. television. Commissioned for the UK by Peter Fincham, ITV’s Director of Television, Channels and Online and Laura Mackie, ITV’s Director of Drama, the third series of Law & Order: UK launched with 5.5 million viewers and with series four to air next year the drama has established itself as one of ITV's most popular.
This time around the critically acclaimed cast, including Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber and Freema Agyeman have a tough, new ally in their fight for justice in the form of Senior Crown Prosecutor Jacob Thorne; a working class hero played by Dominic Rowan (Catwalk Dogs, The Family Man).
And Peter Davison (Unforgiven, Distant Shores,The Last Detective) is Henry Sharpe taking over the job of Director of the CPS - previously held by George Castle (Bill Paterson). Henry is a down to earth pragmatist and a great boss who has worked with Jacob Thorne before.
Bill Paterson is set to return in future series as the newly appointed Director of Public Prosecutions. Other guest stars lining up for series four include Juliet Stevenson, Tobias Menzies, Eddie Marsan and Nicola Walker.
The new series will also be co-produced by Kudos Films and Television, Wolf Films and NBC Universal. The executive producers are Jane Featherstone (Spooks, Ashes to Ashes), Andrew Woodhead (The Fixer, Spooks) and Stephen Garrett (Burn Up) for Kudos and Dick Wolf, creator and executive producer of Law & Order for Wolf Films. The producer will be Richard Stokes who also produced series one to four of Law & Order: UK. Emilia di Girolamo is co-producer and lead writer and other members of the writing team include Debbie O'Malley, Nick Hicks-Beach, Roy Williams and Richard Stokes.
The brainchild of creator Dick Wolf, Law & Order is a two time Emmy Award winner. It is also the record holding drama series for the most consecutive nominations (11). Law & Order has turned into one of television entertainment’s most pre-eminent brands, with successful spin-offs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Law & Order is the longest running crime series in the history of U.S. television.
Law & Order: UK is currently being shown on BBC America in the US to hugely positive critical response.
Law & Order: UK creator and executive producer Dick Wolf said "Following the 'Law & Order' tradition of seeing casting and recasting of roles as an opportunity rather than a burden, we welcome two great new actors to the 'Law & Order' family. Peter and Dominic are well known and well respected members of the British acting community."
Executive producer Andrew Woodhead says: "In these new episodes audiences will get to know our heroes even more and grow to love our new cast members. We promise some great surprises along the way…"
