Miniseries · Channel 4
Dirty Business
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
David Thewlis
Ash Smith
3 eps
Jason Watkins
Peter Hammond
3 eps
Posy Sterling
Julie Preen
3 eps
Tom McKay
Mark Preen
3 eps
Alex Jennings
Sir James Bevsn
3 eps
Asim Chaudhry
Mickey Lazarus
3 eps
Alice Lowe
Susan Day
3 eps
Chanel Cresswell
Hannah Swift
3 eps
Vicki Pepperdine
Lucy Hunt
3 eps
Juliet Cowan
Debbie Henderson
3 eps
Charlotte Ritchie
Sophie Harrison
3 eps
Tom Durant-Pritchard
Chris Hines
3 eps
Craig Parkinson
John Bull
3 eps
Stephen Wight
Alex Sinclair
3 eps
Elizabeth Berrington
Sarah Harrison
3 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Dirty Business actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Dirty Business reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Two amateur detectives in an Oxfordshire village discover dying fish in their river. When they contact the water company for answers, the company's odd, evasive response prompts them to launch an investigation that continues today.
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
- Meeshan SaxenaProducer
- Laura McCutcheonProducer
- Aysha RafaeleExecutive Producer
Writing
- Joseph BullmanWriter
Direction
- Joseph BullmanDirector
Cinematography
- John PardueDirector of Photography
Music
- Sarah PlayfordOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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