Miniseries · BBC Two
The Million Pound Shaman Scam
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TV DNA
How The Million Pound Shaman Scam actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Million Pound Shaman Scam reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
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.
The story
What it's about
In the wealthy London suburb of Hampstead, residents are scammed out of a million pounds by a prolific fraudster who masquerades as a shaman.
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
- Siobhan FinneranExecutive Producer
- Laura SmithProducer
- Liz CollierExecutive Producer
- Alice KeaneProducer
Direction
- Sam MillerDirector
- Adnan AhmedDirector
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