Documentary series · Channel 4
999: What Happened Next
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How 999: What Happened Next actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
999: What Happened Next reads strongest on Tension, Cliffhanger Intensity and Bingeability.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
Every three seconds, a 999 call is made to the police. But not every call is as it seems. This series follows the investigators hunting for the truth and bringing the guilty to justice.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Angharad CloneyProducer
- Carole LochhaedProducer
- Claire SimpsonExecutive Producer
- Rhys RobertsProducer
- Rebecca NunnProducer
Direction
- Bo ChannonDirector
- Rhys RobertsDirector
Where to watch
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