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DONOVAN

UK / ITV1- Granada / Pilot: 2x90m, Series: 3x90m / Pilot: 5-6 January 2004, series started: 10 July 2005

Writer: Mike Cullen / Director: Simon Delaney / Music: Mark Russell / Executive Producer: Andy Harries / Producer: Spencer Campbell

Additional 2 parter credits: Costume Design: Janet Benge / Director of Photography: Niels Johansen / Production Design: Margaret Coombes / Titles: Fig Productions

Former forensic scientist Joe Donovan is called in to help with a police case which resembles one he once worked on when his name is found scrawled in blood at the murder scene. Donovan suffers from memory blackouts and when he discovers that the murdered man was having an affair with his wife he begins to wonder if he could have done it during one such memory lapse.

A series followed in 2005 although the memory problems aspect of the character was side-lined and it settled into more of a straightforward crime drama series, probably one of the reasons why no further episodes were made.

Case one of the series saw Donovan tracking a serial killer, episode two was about a robbery of a wealthy man that ended in murder and Donovan's final case saw the Forensic Investigations Unit tackling a case of suspected biological terrorism on board a cargo plane.

The music was quite reminiscent of Eric Clapton's score for Edge of Darkness at times and the series as a whole was relatively low key but Tom Conti in the lead was as usual excellent.

cast
TOM CONTI as Joe Donovan
SAMANTHA BOND as Kate Donovan
MALCOLM SCATES as Michael Kinsley
INDIRA VARMA as Cara Mathis
DANIEL PAPE as Paul Samson
DAVID FLEESHMAN as Pete Moss
RYAN CARTWRIGHT as Seth Donovan
JAMES MIDGLEY as Bruce Corrigan
and the following were regulars for the series
AMELIA BULLMORE as Evie Strauss
DAN FREDENBURGH as Nick Pushko
KATIE BLAKE as Myrna Rovic


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