Miniseries · Channel 4
The Great Icelandic Swim with Ross Edgley
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Great Icelandic Swim with Ross Edgley actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Great Icelandic Swim with Ross Edgley reads strongest on Bingeability, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
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
Sixty-foot waves, nosy killer whales, hypothermia, tongue rot. Ultra-athlete Ross Edgley attempts to swim all the way around Iceland - 1000 miles of icy water.
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
- Sarah CunliffeExecutive Producer
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