Making television drama is a highly speculative enterprise. You hope that the project you’re working on will resonate with audiences, and sometimes in the quiet of the edit suite you even convince yourself that it will. But you can never be sure.
When we were making the first series of , we had several moments as a production team when we felt that we might have something good on our hands. The first rough cuts of scenes involving Siân Brooke, who plays Grace, and Martin McCann, who plays Stevie, had an undeniable warmth and chemistry. The younger actors, Katherine Devlin (Annie) and Nathan Braniff (Tommy) seemed to leap off the screen. And then, of course, there was Gerry, the loveable rogue and veteran cop who had seen it all; Richard
