No Offence: Series 3, Episode 6 - British Comedy Guide

TV comedy drama
Channel 4
2015 - 2018
21 episodes (3 series)

Comedy drama created by Paul Abbott which follows a police team who are trying to keep Manchester's streets clean of crime. Stars Joanna Scanlan, Alexandra Roach, Elaine Cassidy, Paul Ritter, Will Mellor and more.

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Series 3, Episode 6

No Offence. Dennis Caddy (Neil Maskell). Copyright: AbbottVision

Beckett's death leads the team with no option but to go after the Mayor herself and they put a spectacular plan in motion to bring her down once and for all. But the team's ingenious strategy is threatened when one of their own is kidnapped.

Broadcast details

Date: Thursday 18^th October 2018
Time: 9pm
Channel: Channel 4
Length: 60 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Joanna Scanlan	D.I. Vivienne Deering
Elaine Cassidy	D.C. Dinah Kowalska
Paul Ritter	Randolph Miller
Will Mellor	D.C. Spike Tanner
Ste Johnston	P.C. Jonah Mitchell
Tom Varey	P.C. Stuart O'Connell
Saira Choudhry	P.C. Tegan Thompson
Conor MacNeill	Gavin Nuttle
Claire Rushbrook	D.C.I. Marilyn Merchant
Neil Maskell	Dennis Caddy
Tamara Lawrance	Bonnie Sands
Sharon Rooney	Faye Caddy
Lisa McGrillis	Caroline McCoy
Darren Connolly	Joseph Beckett

Guest cast
Nigel Lindsay	DCI Terry Taylor
Amy Dolan	Christine Sedaka
Luke Westlake	Dean Wayne
Tom Bennett	Charma Sedaka
Angela Curran	Ruby
Scott Jenkinson	Cameron Caddy
Jack Hartley	Lad
Samuel Edward-Taylor	Spotter

Writing team
Paul Abbott	Writer
May Anderson	Script Editor

Production team
Misha Manson-Smith	Director
Phil Warburton-Leach (as Philip Leach)	Producer
Martin Carr	Executive Producer
Paul Abbott	Executive Producer
Paul Coe	Executive Producer
Tracie Wright	Line Producer
Joanna Scanlan	Associate Producer
Elaine Cassidy	Associate Producer
Catherine Morshead	Associate Producer
Joe Sawyer	Editor
David Fisher	Editor
David Butterworth	Production Designer
Sarah Crowe	Casting Director
Scott Langridge	Costume Designer
Nadia El-Saffar	Make-up Designer
Vince Pope	Composer
Mick Ward	1st Assistant Director

Press

Series three of the Manchester cop drama concludes with an episode that variously features an outrageously tasteless - and funny - medical emergency played out in a toilet ("Can we cover that up before we zap him?"), one of the team properly in danger and, at the finish, a real emotional kick. This is still quite the best police procedural around thanks to Paul Abbott's writing, and its fine ensemble cast, headed by the fabulous Joanna Scanlan as DI Viv Deering, a study in street-smart cynicism tempered by rough charm.

Jonathan Wright, The Guardian, 18th October 2018

No Offence: a distasteful end to a promising series

Far too many films and TV shows exploit rape as a dramatic device. Anarchic police procedural No Offence (Channel 4) concluded with not one but two such sexual violence storylines in a confused and misfiring finale.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 18th October 2018

Review: No Offence, series 3, episode 6

Nobody imploded, nobody got shredded by a helicopter blade and the deftness of touch this time round offers a new twist in a show that is willing to evolve and astound.

Matt, The Custard TV, 18th October 2018

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