Improv adds realism to cop show

摘要

Channel 5 is renowned neither for its homegrown drama nor for attracting critical praise, but Suspects gives it both. The cop show has notched up three series since its TV debut in February 2014 and, at the end of April, it was the subject of an RTS London event at ITV's London Studios. "It's a very straightforward police procedural," explained co-creator and Executive Producer Paul Marquess, the founder of FremantleMedia subsidiary Newman Street Productions, which makes the series. But there's a twist: the cast improvise, working from a storyline, but no script.