Wired (TV series)

Wired
Genre	Crime drama
Written by	Kate Brooke
Directed by	Kenny Glenaan
Starring	Jodie Whittaker Laurence Fox Toby Stephens Riz Ahmed Charlie Brooks Ramon Tikaram
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	3 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Rebecca Hodgson
Producer	Thea Harvey
Production location	United Kingdom
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Granada Television
Original release
Network	ITV STV UTV
Release	13 October (2008-10-13) – 27 October 2008 (2008-10-27)

Wired is a 2008 three-part television miniseries starring Jodie Whittaker, Laurence Fox and Toby Stephens. It debuted on ITV at 9:00pm on Monday, 13 October 2008, and was shown over three consecutive weeks. The complete series was released on DVD on 10 November 2008.

Plot

Single mother and bank employee Louise Evans (Jodie Whittaker) finds herself blackmailed by a colleague after documents reveal that she and a former partner stole £3,000 from a former employer. The boyfriend, Philip Manningham (Laurence Fox), plans to defraud £250m from ZBG Banking, the company from which he was sacked, and Louise agrees to help him pull off an Internet scam. Meanwhile, Detective Crawford Hill (Toby Stephens) is working undercover in an attempt to expose the fraud ring and after a chance meeting with Louise, he realises she is involved and is key to him cracking the case. However, their relationship soon threatens to compromise everything and places Louise in mortal danger.

Cast

• Jodie Whittaker as Louise Evans
• Laurence Fox as Philip Manningham
• Toby Stephens as DI Crawford Hill
• Riz Ahmed as Manesh Kunzru
• Charlie Brooks as Anna Hansen
• Sacha Dhawan as Ben Goldspink
• Ramon Tikaram as Yusuf Ralindi
• Iain McKee as Nick Benson
• Katy Cavanagh as DS Polly Stuart
• Helena Fox as Erica Wilson

Critical reception

Jane Simon of The Mirror said of episode one; "Last week ended with the long-overdue sight of evil Janine from EastEnders (Charlie Brooks) lying dead on her desk with blood pouring from her neatly sliced wrists. Add to that little treat, the sight of Coronation Street actress Katy Cavanagh - Kirk's blonde other half - playing hardnosed Jane Tennison-type detective Polly Stuart. "I'm upgrading this to armed ops!" she barks tonight as the banking fraud she's nosing into turns ugly. Ah, banking fraud! Already we can allow ourselves a twinge of nostalgia for the boom days, when bankers could while away the nine-to-five happily plotting new ways to screw millions of pounds from fat-cat businessmen who named their accounts after their high-speed yachts. For our heroine Louise (Jodie Whittaker), having been stitched up by one (now dead) friend, knowing who she can trust gets even harder.

And she discovers that the nice bloke Crawford (Toby Stephens), who has been acting as her personal guardian angel, is in fact a copper. And that Phillip Manningham (Laurence Fox), the bloke she made the deal with, is merely plankton in the dog-eat-dog food chain of fraud. Fortunately, Louise is a quick thinking and resourceful girl - she'll have to be as she meets Phillip's partners tonight and events take a hair-raising turn."

Episodes

Episode	Title	Written by	Directed by	Viewers (millions)	Original airdate
1	"The Beginning"	Kate Brooke	Kenny Gleenan	5.23	13 October 2008 (2008-10-13)
2	"The Middle"	Kate Brooke	Kenny Gleenan	4.41	20 October 2008 (2008-10-20)
3	"The End"	Kate Brooke	Kenny Gleenan	3.55	27 October 2008 (2008-10-27)

External links

• Wired at IMDb