The Fixer (TV series)

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The Fixer
The Fixer intertitle
Genre	Drama
Created by	Ben Richards
Starring	Andrew Buchan Tamzin Outhwaite Jody Latham Liz White Peter Mullan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	60 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original airing	10 March
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

The Fixer is a British drama television series, produced by Kudos for ITV. The first episode was broadcast on 10 March 2008, at 9pm

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Series 1 (2008)
4 Reception
5 DVD release
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Plot

The series features Andrew Buchan as an ex-Special Forces ex-convict John Mercer who is convinced into becoming a state-sponsored assassin, by Lenny Douglas a retired police officer played by Peter Mullan, Lenny runs a clandestine unit responsible for cleaning up organized crime.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Series 1 (2008)

#	Title	Writer	Director	Original Airdate
01	"Episode 1"	Ben Richards	Alrick Riley	10 March 2008
Only five years into his life sentence for killing his aunt and uncle - a crime committed when he discovered their abuse of his sister - John Mercer is released from prison. He’s introduced to Lenny Douglas, a police officer ‘retired on grounds of ill health’.
02	"Episode 2"	Ben Richards	Alrick Riley	17 March 2008
With the head of a notorious crime family dead, Lenny visits his successor, the vital police mole Jude Cassidy, to persuade him to come under police protection. Jude and an accomplice have recently been acquitted for the savage murder of a young black man whose cousin, Elviss Gilroy, is making plans to avenge his death. Reluctantly, Jude agrees to go into hiding, under the protection of an even more reluctant John Mercer who is forced to take him in.
03	"Episode 3"	Ben Richards	Alrick Riley	24 March 2008
Lenny is alerted to the recent arrival of a notorious Albanian gangster Tarek Sokoli. Rather than have him killed, he instructs Mercer, Rose and Calum to scare him away - to send the message to any others planning on setting up in London that their attempts will fail. The unit target Sokoli’s two main sources of income - prostitution and drugs.
04	"Episode 4"	Ben Richards	Alrick Riley	31 March 2008
Fed up with their lifestyle, Mercer takes Calum on an educational trip to the supermarket. Lenny finds them there and orders Mercer to kill Scott Glover, a man just acquitted of the murder of the young, innocent, 20 year-old Marie Greene. Mercer questions why they are killing a man innocent in the eyes of the law. Lenny’s reticence to divulge any further information has Mercer’s interest piqued.
05	"Episode 5"	Ben Richards	Alrick Riley	07 April 2008
Rose tells Lenny that a former member of Lenny’s unit – John Mercer’s predecessor, Patrick Finch - has gone on a vigilante-style rampage, meting out his particular brand of justice against drug-dealers. Meanwhile, Hugh Berry, the man who sorts out the paperwork to cover the unit’s illicit activities, asks Lenny to take out a hit on his behalf. A hit-and-run driver Trevor Bowyer rendered Hugh’s grandson, Owen, mentally disabled, but only served two years for the crime. Whilst emphatic that they are not a bunch of vigilantes, Lenny is left in no doubt that if he doesn’t send his hit man to kill Trevor Bowyer, then Hugh will find one of his own.
06	"Episode 6"	Ben Richards	Alrick Riley	14 April 2008
Lenny is targeting the kingpin of judicial corruption, Richard Blakeney, to expose his network of bent policemen and corrupt judges. Blakeney is everything Lenny hates, and his network is everything he wants to bring down. Lenny briefs Mercer on his delicate strategy, which involves exploiting Blakeney’s hit man Georgie, who Calum and Mercer are spying on.

[edit] Reception

Episode 1 received an average audience of 6.2 million viewers, a 26.5% share ^[1] and episode 2 dropped 1.4m viewers, drawing 4.8m, a 21.3% share of the audience ^[2].

While the last episode in the series managed 3.3m (13.3% share), competing against the start of a new run of Waking the Dead on BBC One which achieved double the share of that time slot ^[3].