Paradox (TV series)

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Television series
German title paradox
Original title paradox
Paradox-Logo.svg
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
year 2009
length 60 minutes
Episodes 5 in 1 season
genre Science fiction , crime thriller
idea Lizzie Mickery
First broadcast November 24, 2009 (UK) on BBC One
German-language
first broadcast
September 1, 2010 on RTL II
occupation

Paradox is a 2009 British science fiction crime series that consists of just five episodes in one season. In early 2010, the English newspaper The Sun announced that the BBC would not continue the series.

It premiered in the UK from November 24th to December 22nd, 2009 on BBC One . In Germany, the series was first broadcast between September 1 and October 6, 2010 on RTL II .

action

The series is about a police team led by Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint who tries to solve and prevent events in the near future. The only indications of these events are series of apparently incoherent images that the astrophysicist Dr. Christian King receives from a satellite in his laboratory .

production

The series was conceived by the British screenwriter and former actress Lizzie Mickery , she also wrote the script for four of the five episodes. Simon Cellan Jones and Omar Madha directed. The series was produced by Clerkenwell Films for BBC Northern Ireland. The series was shot in 13 weeks in the summer of 2009 and was set in Manchester .

occupation

role actor Voice actor
Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint Tamzin Outhwaite Christin Marquitan
Dr. Christian King Emun Elliott Michael Deffert
Detective Sergeant Ben Holt Mark Bonnar Thomas Nero Wolff
Detective Constable Callum Gada Chiké Okonkwo Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Simon Manning Lorcan Cranitch Detlef Bierstedt
Amelia James Abigail Davies Dascha Lehmann

The synchronization was carried out by the Interopa Film dubbing studio . Dennis Schmidt-Foss, who also plays the role of Callum Gada in the series, took over the dialogue and dubbing .

Episodes

episode German title Original title script Director First broadcast (UK) First broadcast (DE)
1 Understanding Episode One Lizzie Mickery Simon Cellan Jones November 24, 2009 September 1, 2010
2 truth Episode Two Lizzie Mickery Simon Cellan Jones December 1, 2009 September 8, 2010
3 eternity Episode Three Lizzie Mickery Simon Cellan Jones December 8, 2009 September 15, 2010
4th decision Episode Four Mark Greig Omar Madha December 15, 2009 September 22, 2010
5 determination Episode Five Lizzie Mickery Omar Madha December 22, 2009 October 6, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Sun : Tamzin Out-waite from January 1, 2010 (English)
  2. How-Do: BBC1's Paradox comes to Manchester next month from May 29, 2009 ( Memento from December 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. BBC Press Office: Paradox: Introduction, October 16, 2009
  4. a b Production and synchronization data for the series at Serienjunkies.de