Rev. (TV series)

Rev.
Series titles over a view looking down on the rev
GenreSitcom
Created byTom Hollander
James Wood
Written byTom Hollander
James Wood
Directed byPeter Cattaneo
StarringTom Hollander
Olivia Colman
Steve Evets
Miles Jupp
Simon McBurney
Ellen Thomas
Lucy Liemann
Jimmy Akingbola
Vicki Pepperdine
Joanna Scanlan
Ben Willbond
Narrated byTom Hollander
Theme music composerJonathan Whitehead
Opening themeRemix of "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" by Nat King Cole
Ending theme"Hearing The Prayer"
ComposerJonathan Whitehead
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes19 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producersMatthew Justice and Simon Wilson (series one)
Kenton Allen and Tom Hollander (series two)
ProducersKenton Allen (series one)
Hannah Pescod (series one and two)
Polly Buckle (series three)
Production locationsShoreditch, London
Hackney, London
Running time25–30 minutes
Production companiesBig Talk Productions
Handle with Prayer
Original release
NetworkBBC Two
BBC HD
Release28 June 2010 (2010-06-28) –
28 April 2014 (2014-04-28)
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Rev. is a British television sitcom produced by Big Talk Productions. Written by actor Tom Hollander and James Wood, the show premiered on BBC Two on 28 June 2010 and ended on 28 April 2014.[1] The show's working titles were The City Vicar and Handle with Prayer.[2] The series revolves around a Church of England priest, played by Hollander, who becomes the vicar of an inner-city London church after leaving a small rural Suffolk parish.

Hollander said: "We wanted to define ourselves in opposition to the cliché of a country vicar, partly because we wanted to depict England as it is now, rather than having a sort of bucolic-y, over the hills and far away, bird-tweeting England – we wanted the complications of the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic inner-city, where everything is much harder."[3]

  1. ^ "'Rev.' star dismisses 'Dibley' comparisons". Digital Spy. 24 June 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  2. ^ "The City Vicar - Production Details". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
  3. ^ Hollander, speaking on South Bank Sky Arts Winners interview, 16 February 2011, Sky Arts 1

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