Documentary series
Peelers: The PSNI for Real
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Peelers: The PSNI for Real actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Peelers: The PSNI for Real reads strongest on Tension, Cliffhanger Intensity and Serialized.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Unfiltered and up close. The realities and challenges of 24/7 policing in Belfast. Stephen Nolan gets a powerful insight into law and order on the front line.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
Where to watch
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