Scripted series · BBC One
The Cage
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Cage actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Cage 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
When Leanne and Matty discover they are both robbing from the safe at the inner-city casino they work in, their lives are set on a collision course; with each other, the local gangster they're stealing from, and the police.
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
- Christopher AirdExecutive Producer
- Sheridan SmithExecutive Producer
- Lucy RicherExecutive Producer
- Tony SchumacherExecutive Producer
- Ed GuineyExecutive Producer
- Hilary MartinExecutive Producer
Where to watch
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