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Keeping Faith (TV series)

Keeping Faith
Also known asUn Bore Mercher
(One Wednesday Morning)
GenreThriller
Created byMatthew Hall
Directed byPip Broughton
Andy Newbery
Starring
ComposersLaurence Love Greed
Amy Wadge
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languagesFilmed concurrently
in both the Welsh language
and in English
No. of series3
No. of episodes20 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producersAdrian Bate
Maggie Russell
Shane Murphy
ProducersPip Broughton
Nora Ostler
Production locationsCarmarthen
Laugharne
Carmarthenshire
Swansea
Vale of Glamorgan
CinematographySteve Lawes
Rory Taylor
Bjorn Bratberg
Running time60 minutes
Production companiesVox Pictures, Nevision, Cinematic Productions, Soundworks, About Premium Content
Original release
NetworkS4C (Welsh Version)
BBC One Wales (English Version)
Release5 November 2017 (2017-11-05) –
6 December 2020 (2020-12-06)
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Keeping Faith (Welsh: Un Bore Mercher, "One Wednesday Morning") is a British thriller television series, filmed and set in Wales, and first broadcast in Welsh on S4C from 5 November 2017.

Created by Matthew Hall and produced by Vox Pictures.[1] The series stars Eve Myles as Faith Howells, a solicitor at a family-run law firm whose husband, Evan, disappears whilst she is on maternity leave following the birth of their third child.

Renamed Keeping Faith, the English version premiered on BBC One Wales on 13 February 2018. The first series co-stars Hannah Daniel, Matthew Gravelle, Bradley Freegard, Mark Lewis Jones, Mali Harries and Aneirin Hughes.[2][1] The show was extremely popular in Wales, with an average of 300,000 viewers per episode, making it the most popular show on BBC Wales for over 25 years and, with over 8.5 million downloads by May 2018, the most downloaded non-network show on BBC iPlayer.[3]

Filmed concurrently in both languages, this series is the second in a season of bilingual dramas set to premiere back-to-back on S4C.[1] The initial Welsh language broadcast on S4C carried entirely English subtitles, while repeat airings carried encoded English subtitles. The series has been available on the BBC iPlayer as part of the BBC's ongoing relationship with S4C.[4]

On 15 June 2018, the BBC announced that Keeping Faith would be shown across the UK on BBC One, beginning on 10 July 2018.[5] The Head of Commissioning for BBC Wales, Nick Andrews, said that the series had been "a real gem from start to finish", and a testament to the strength of drama coming out of Wales.[6][7]

With series one ending with a cliff-hanger, Huw Thomas, the BBC Wales arts and media correspondent, wrote on 6 May 2018 that a second series is in development, and later that year, the second series was commissioned.[8] Production began in September 2018 and broadcast in Wales, first in Welsh (with English subtitles) on S4C, from 12 May 2019; nationally shown on BBC One in English during July–August 2019.[9]

The third and final series premiered on S4C (as Un Bore Mercher) in 2020 during November and December,[10] and the English language broadcast began on BBC One on 27 March 2021. This series was made available on the BBC iPlayer on 27 March 2021.[11] By May 2021 the series had had over 50 million views on BBC iPlayer.[12]

  1. ^ a b c "S4C Press release: Three drama series to fire the imagination... Bang; Un Bore Mercher; Craith". s4c.wales. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  2. ^ Welsh TV noir Keeping Faith leaves Scandis for dead Nicole Wynne, The Times, 29 April 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  3. ^ Work begins on second series of record-breaking BBC Wales drama ...The eight-part series, starring Eve Myles (Broadchurch/Victoria), has broken a string of records over recent weeks... at bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Un Bore Mercher – BBC – S4C '...Mystery drama about a woman whose husband disappears.'". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  5. ^ Record-breaking BBC Wales/S4C drama Keeping Faith to be broadcast across the UK on BBC One www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre, 15 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  6. ^ Keeping Faith series 1 episode 1 at iPlayer after BBC1 broadcast bbc.co.uk/iplayer. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference baftas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Keeping Faith: BBC Wales drama back for second series". BBC News. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Radio Times: When is Keeping Faith series 2 on TV?". www.radiotimes.com. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Un Bore Mercher comes back to S4C for the final time". S4C. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  11. ^ "Keeping Faith - series three". bbc.co.uk/programmes. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  12. ^ "Keeping Faith streamed 50 million times on BBC iPlayer". BBC. 4 May 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2022.

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