Broadchurch
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Broadchurch (DE / AT) Broadchurch - A village under suspicion (CH) |
| Original title | Broadchurch |
 | |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2013-2017 |
| Production company |
Kudos Television and Film, Shine America, Imaginary Friends |
| length | 44-50 minutes |
| Episodes | 24 in 3 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Crime , drama |
| idea | Chris Chibnall |
| production |
Chris Chibnall , Louise Fox, Richard Stokes |
| music | Ólafur Arnalds |
| camera | Matt Gray |
| First broadcast | March 4, 2013 (UK) on ITV |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 10, 2014 on pulse 4 |
| occupation | |
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Broad Church (in Switzerland: Broadchurch - A village under suspicion ) is a British crime - drama - series radio station ITV . Developed by Chris Chibnall , it deals with the death of an eleven-year-old boy, the subsequent murder investigation and its impact on the residents of Broadchurch, a fictional, tranquil coastal village in south-west England. Dealing with Danny's death is portrayed from a variety of different perspectives over the course of several years. In seasons two and three, another crime comes to the fore.
David Tennant plays the lead role of the Scottish Detective Inspector Alec Hardy. Olivia Colman plays Hardy's local colleague Ellie Miller, who is herself implicated in the case.
Each of the three seasons comprises eight episodes of almost 50 minutes in length. The first season was broadcast for the first time on March 4, 2013, the second started on January 5, 2015. It is thematically and chronologically linked to the events of the first season, so in addition to the trial of Danny's death, one mentioned in the first season is also mentioned Unresolved crime of Hardy's past solved. The third season aired from February 27 to April 17, 2017. It primarily deals with a new crime in Broadchurch, but includes the time that has passed between the seasons and shows the deep wounds from Danny's death even after four years.
Broadchurch has received a number of awards, including several BAFTA , NTA and RTS awards, as well as the Peabody Award for outstanding contribution to the ongoing guarantee of quality television . The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the first season as “touching”, at the same time “without a hint of kitsch” and “zillions better than anything that German television has ever produced in crime films.” The quality of the story and the “ brilliant "performances of the actors as well as the sensitive camera work and the" congenial "music of the Icelandic Ólafur Arnalds . Only the German synchronization was criticized.
Episodes
| Season | Number of episodes |
First broadcast in UK | German-language first broadcast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | ⌀ Audience numbers | ⌀ audience share | Season premiere | Season finale | ||
| 1 | 8th | 4th March 2013 | April 22, 2013 | 9.37 million | 32.4715% | March 10, 2014 | April 14, 2014 |
| 2 | 8th | 5th January 2015 | February 23, 2015 | 9.68 million | 34.3700% | November 30, 2015 | December 8, 2015 |
| 3 | 8th | February 27, 2017 | 17th April 2017 | 10.75 million | 38.1692% | 18th October 2017 | November 8, 2017 |
Action overview
- season 1
The first season is about the investigation into the death of 11-year-old Danny Latimer. He is found dead one morning at the foot of a cliff in his hometown of Broadchurch.
The focus is not only on the murder investigation itself, but rather on the influence of the crime and the investigation on the village community.
The investigation is led by DS Ellie Miller ( Olivia Colman ), whose son was Danny's best friend, and DI Alec Hardy ( David Tennant ). In the course of the investigation, the residents of the village are screened and various secrets of the residents are revealed. Again and again individuals are suspected of having killed Danny. Arbitrary accusations and rumors destroy the villagers' trust in one another, and one innocent person even kills himself. The local and national media also play a role in the series.
- season 2
Season two has two storylines: the trial of the person charged with the murder of Danny and the reopening of a case in the town of Sandbrook. As mentioned in the first season, it is about DI Hardy's previous investigation into a murder case: Two cousins have been murdered. The main suspect was acquitted due to an alleged investigative error by Hardy. Together with DS Miller, Hardy re-opens the case and the two manage to convict the murderer.
- season 3
The final season follows Miller and Hardy as they investigate a serious sex crime . As in the previous seasons, the focus, in addition to the pure investigation of the crime, is in particular the portrayal of the suffering that such an act, the investigative work and the attention of the press causes in all affected people in the vicinity of the victim and perpetrator. Even after four years, Danny's death is far from over, it has changed the lives of the people in Broadchurch forever, and his family in particular is still a long way from everyday life. Creator Chris Chibnall said, “We have one final story to tell that features both familiar and new faces. I hope it's a compelling, compelling and emotional farewell to a world and a series that means so much to me. "
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization was created under the dialogue director of Florian Kruger Shantin by the synchronous company Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin . The dialogue books were written by Andreas Hinz, Tina Bartel, Florian Krüger-Shantin and Angela Ringer.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast, the first Broadchurch season achieved sensational ratings of over nine million viewers per episode and an audience share of over 30 percent.
The opening episode of the second season on January 5, 2015 drew an average of 7.3 million viewers (viewership increased from 6.8 million at 9 p.m. to over 8.9 million viewers during the episode). This again corresponds to a share of 30.1%, the second-best rate that evening after Coronation Street (also ITV, up to 8.3 million viewers). Another 300,000 viewers saw the episode an hour later on ITV + 1 (a total of 7.6 million). The premiere of the second season attracted 800,000 viewers (28.1%) more than the premiere of the first season. The audience numbers were also 22.6% higher than the ITV annual average at this time (5.2 million). With a total of 10.86 million viewers (including repetition and media library visits in the following week), the episode was one of the 50 most watched TV shows of the year ( Wikipedia ) and was the most watched series on ITV in 2015.
The number of viewers for episode 2.02 fell to 6.11 million (22.4% share) including the ITV + 1 audience. Although this was the lowest ratings within the series since episode 1.05, it was still enough to secure the highest ratings of the evening for the station. The ratings for the third episode fell again to 5.2 million viewers, the lowest number since the series began. This was justified by the simultaneous broadcast of the BBC hit series Silent Witness and the "unrealistic representation of the lawyers and a birth scene". In the following week, the number of viewers fell again slightly to 5.6 million viewers. However, this is still a good result for the midpoint of the broadcasting time of a series and was once again able to secure the best ratings of the evening for the broadcaster (this time the episode also exceeded the simultaneous broadcast of Silent Witness ).
The third and final season brought in the best ratings of the series: Each individual episode drew more than 10 million viewers, the average viewer share was almost 40% of the total television audience (all three seasons had outstanding ratings of over 30% market share each). The final eighth episode was followed by a record 11.61 million Brits, this was the highest audience rating of the entire series and also the highest rating ever in more than a month (across all programs and television programs). Most Broadchurch episodes earned ITV the highest audience share during the week they were broadcast.
review
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised the new series as a “masterpiece. Aesthetic, visual and musical, acting and narrative "and wrote further:
“Without ever leaving the criminal case of the eleven-year-old found dead on the beach, but with an enormous economy of means, this is not about the nerves of the audience in the face of child suffering, but about the key force that an unbelievable death affects all of them Affected developed. Even the first sequence of the film […] outlines […] the contrasting leitmotifs: the narrowness and the expanse of the scene, the fall, the souls. Just as symbolic, without being obtrusive, is the first early morning walk of the still unsuspecting father to work, who introduces almost all the people who play a role from then on [...]. The Latimers, who suffer suffering, and the Millers, where the woman earns the money as a policewoman (Olivia Coleman [sic]), form the center; the hotel owner who takes the word 'tourism' very seriously, the kiosk man (great: David Bradley, whom many will know as the Hogwarts caretaker Filch) who is suspicious because he lives alone, and the nasty trailer dweller on the beach (played brilliantly unsympathetically by Pauline Quirke) are the periphery. From the outside, only the obnoxious, factual and at the same time painful investigator Hardy (David Tennant) and the ambitious city journalist White come in front of Miller, and from the outside, people want to think, death comes. [...] Everyone is entangled, and the film takes all the time not to unravel it, but to portray it as hopeless, in order to simultaneously advance the investigation step by step. The desolation of death is demonstrated to a certain extent in all elements that promise consolation, from nature to community and justice to love. A parishioner with a second face, the dark side of the best buddy, the secrets of the victim himself - actually only his mother, whose desperation Jodie Whittaker portrays heartbreakingly, is a figure without an adverse moment. "
Only the translation was criticized as a shortcoming of the ZDF broadcast:
“Unfortunately, all this comes out slowed down by the German synchronization. Here everyone speaks a well-groomed, average actor's High German - you couldn't even tell mothers and daughters apart by the voices. A reproduction of the decisive nuances of the original - the foreign investigator with a Scottish accent, the hotel owner with an Australian accent, the local actors in all tones of the colored High English - was omitted as was a careful translation. The laconic, terse, colloquial language of the people from the coast is completely eliminated. 'You were having 99s' becomes 'You have eaten ice cream', 'no gossip' becomes 'no chatter' instead of 'no gossip', the hotel owner says as if she were from office, there were still 'two people' waiting outside instead 'Two people', the father to the dead child 'I love you so much, superstar', which means 'I love you zillions, superstar' in English. In a word: The handling of the original is a thousand times inattentive, we urgently recommend watching the DVD with German subtitles. [...]
The original remains undamaged; if we haven't missed anything, it's zillions better than anything that German television has ever produced in terms of crime films. Seldom has a film ever shown the godforsaken mood so touching and yet without any hint of kitsch that spreads when the worst happens to a family. Anyone who listens to the congenial music that the Icelander Olafur Arnalds composed for it will grasp this mood from the very first moment and will never forget it. "
Awards
The series' first season received seven BAFTA nominations. Olivia Colman won Best Actress, David Bradley won Best Supporting Actor, and the show won Best Drama Series. The series was also in competition for the BAFTA audience award, but lost to the Doctor Who special "The Day of the Doctor", in which David Tennant also played the lead role. At the BAFTA Craft Awards, Ólafur Arnalds won in the category of best newly composed television music, James Strong was nominated for episode 1 for best director (fiction category), Mike Jones for best editing (episode 8), Catrin Meredydd for best production design and Chris Chibnall as best author (Drama section).
Leading actor David Tennant won the TV Choice Award for Best Actor after each of the three seasons (2013, 2015 and 2017) . In the same years, the Broadchurch series received this award as such, in 2013 as best new drama, and in 2015 and 2017 in the best drama category. The series also received a variety of other nominations and awards, including honors at the Freesat Awards, the National Television Awards , the Broadcast Awards, the Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Awards, and the Royal Television Society Awards. She also received a Peabody Award for her "outstanding and commendable contribution to ensuring excellence in quality television".
The third season of Broadchurch won its first National Television Award for Best Crime Drama in the spring of 2018 . She prevailed against the co-nominees Sherlock and Line of Duty .
background
production
Many scenes of the fictional town Broadchurch were in Clevedon in the region Somerset and West Bay in Dorset shot (both in South West England).
The identity of the murderer was kept secret until the very end. Only Olivia Colman found out about it by mistake when she was hired and was sworn to secrecy, while David Tennant, like all the other actors and most of the production staff, did not know who the culprit was until the last episode was shot. By the time the scene was recorded in which the identity of the murderer was revealed, only 29 people knew who it was.
The production of the series was financed by ZDF , among others .
On April 12, 2016, ITV announced the cast of the third and final season, including again Jodie Whittaker , Andrew Buchan , Arthur Darvill , Carolyn Pickles, Adam Wilson and Phoebe Waller-Bridge . Filming began in May 2016 and the season was broadcast from February 27, 2017.
Chibnall will succeed Steven Moffat and Russell T. Davies as showrunner (lead writer and coordinator) of the cult sci-fi series Doctor Who in 2017 , a commitment that seals the statement that Season 3 will be the definitive conclusion to the series Broadchurch . Last doubts were dispelled by the announcement that Jodie Whittaker would follow him to Cardiff and take over the leading role of the doctor in his 13th incarnation.
International charisma
In addition to being broadcast in the original version in most English-speaking countries worldwide, the series has so far been dubbed in German, Russian and French.
The first German-language broadcast of the first season took place on the television channel Puls 4, which belongs to ProSiebenSat.1 Media, between March and April 2014 in Austria. In Switzerland, the series was broadcast on SRF Zwei in October 2014. In Germany, the broadcast took place in four 90-minute episodes from April 26, 2015 to May 17, 2015 on ZDF .
The German premiere of the second season was broadcast on 13th Street from November 30, 2015 to December 8, 2015. ZDF broadcast the second season in April 2016 in four episodes of 90 minutes each.
In April 2016, the production of a third and definitely final season was officially announced. It was first broadcast on British television on February 27, 2017 and ended on April 17, 2017. The German-dubbed version was first broadcast in double episodes on 13th Street on October 18, 2017 and completed on November 8, 2017. On free TV , the third season - again in double episodes - was shown for the first time on ZDFneo , between November 18 and December 9, 2019.
Adaptations
In 2014, the US broadcaster Fox Broadcasting Company bought a processing license from Broadchurch and developed an adaptation of the first season under the title Gracepoint . Alec Hardy was renamed Emmet Carver and played again by David Tennant, all other roles were named and re-cast as in Broadchurch (Ellie Miller - Anna Gunn ). Along with lead actor David Tennant, Fox also successfully recruited creator and screenwriter of the original series, Chris Chibnall, and original director James Strong for the adaptation. The course of the story was only slightly modified, and the end (the dissolution of the perpetrators) was changed, the latter was already announced by the broadcaster in advance of the broadcast. Gracepoint aired on October 2, 2014. After the gigantic surprise success of the original series, the ratings for the adaptation were so low that no further season of Gracepoint was tackled.
The French broadcaster France 2 , which had broadcast Broadchurch from February 2014 , also announced its own adaptation of the series. This was produced together with Shine France and is called Malaterra . Jean-Xavier de Lestrade was hired as director. The series is set in Malaterra, a fictional coastal village in Corsica , and the eight 52-minute episodes premiered on France 2 between November 18 and December 9, 2015.
Web links
- Broadchurch in the online film database
- Broadchurch in the German dubbing index
- Broadchurch at Fernsehserien.de
- Broadchurch in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Dossier on the series
Individual evidence
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- ^ Roland Ellison: Broadchurch and Corrie big winners at the Freesat Awards in a good night for ITV . In: Daily Mirror , July 11, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
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- ^ Lynette Rice: 'Broadchurch' heading to Fox . In: Entertainment Weekly , August 1, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
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- ^ Brian Moylan: The curious case of Broadchurch's US remake Gracepoint: why bother? . In: The Guardian , October 2, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
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- ^ Adrien Léger: Broadchurch: l'adaptation française bientôt diffusée sur France 2 . Linternaute.com. December 17, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
