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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Tom Hollander James Wood |
Written by | Tom Hollander James Wood |
Directed by | Peter Cattaneo |
Starring | Tom Hollander Olivia Colman Steve Evets Miles Jupp Simon McBurney Ellen Thomas Lucy Liemann Jimmy Akingbola Vicki Pepperdine Joanna Scanlan Ben Willbond |
Narrated by | Tom Hollander |
Theme music composer | Jonathan Whitehead |
Opening theme | Remix of "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" by Nat King Cole |
Ending theme | "Hearing The Prayer" |
Composer | Jonathan Whitehead |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 19 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
Production | |
Executive producers | Matthew Justice and Simon Wilson (series one) Kenton Allen and Tom Hollander (series two) |
Producers | Kenton Allen (series one) Hannah Pescod (series one and two) Polly Buckle (series three) |
Production locations | Shoreditch, London Hackney, London |
Running time | 25–30 minutes |
Production companies | Big Talk Productions Handle with Prayer |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two BBC HD |
Release | 28 June 2010 28 April 2014 | –
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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]