Waking the Dead (TV series)

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Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series, produced by the BBC, that centres on a fictional London-based cold-case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler, and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and a total of nine series followed. Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One. A third-series episode won an International Emmy Award in 2004. The programme was also shown on BBC America in the United States, though these screenings are edited to allow for advertising breaks, as well as UKTV in Australia and New Zealand and ABC1 in Australia. A total of 46 stories aired across the nine series. The show aired its final episode on 11 April 2011. Following Waking the Dead's conclusion, a spin-off series, titled The Body Farm, aired in late 2011, revolving around forensic scientist Eve Lockhart (Tara Fitzgerald). It was cancelled after one series. In 2018, a five-part...

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