Flashpoint On ITV3

ITV have gone all out to provide viewers with quality new drama this season and here’s a look at what’s coming up soon…

Flashpoint

Enrico Colantoni and Amy Jo Johnson star in this brand-new 13-part series, which will premiere on ITV3 in the UK.

The Strategic Response Unit is a team of cops like no other. They’re the elite. They handle the calls no ordinary cops can. High risk is their business and life-and-death stakes are their world.

They’re unique. No other SWAT team in the world is trained in both state-of-the-art weaponry and psychological profiling and negotiation – a combination of tactical brilliance and emotional intelligence that allows this team to peer inside a suspect’s head and defuse the most delicate psychological threat.

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Father & Son, a major new four part drama by Frank Deasy, the Emmy award-winning writer of Prime Suspect: The Final Act and The Passion, has been commissioned by ITV and RTÉ, Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster.

Starring Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea and Ian Hart, Father & Son is produced by Left Bank Pictures, and is the first drama to be commissioned by ITV in association with RTÉ. Filming is currently underway (October 2008) on location in Ireland and Manchester. Directed by Brian Kirk (My Boy Jack) and produced by Michael Casey (My Boy Jack), Father & Son is a sophisticated and deftly plotted thriller.

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