Y Gwyll
| Y Gwyll | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Hinterland |
| Genre | Crime drama |
| Starring |
Richard Harrington Mali Harries Alex Harries Hannah Daniel Aneirin Hughes |
| Country of origin | Wales, United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | Welsh, English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 4/8 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Ed Thomas |
| Producer(s) |
Gethin Scourfield Ed Talfan |
| Location(s) | Aberystwyth, Wales |
| Running time |
60 minutes (S4C) 40, 60 or 90 minutes (BBC) |
| Production company(s) | Fiction Factory |
| Distributor | All3Media International |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | S4C / BBC One Wales |
| Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Original run | 29 October 2013 – present |
| External links | |
| Production website | |
Y Gwyll (English: The Dusk), known in English by the name Hinterland, is a police detective drama series broadcast on S4C in Welsh and later in English, with brief passages of Welsh dialogue, on BBC One Wales. When it was aired on the BBC in 2014, it was the first BBC television drama with dialogue in both English and Welsh.[1]
The main character, DCI Tom Mathias, is played by Richard Harrington.[2] On 27 November 2013, a second series was announced by S4C.[3]
Cast
- Richard Harrington – DCI Tom Mathias
- Mali Harries – DI Mared Rhys
- Alex Harries – DC Lloyd Elis
- Hannah Daniel – DS Siân Owens
- Aneirin Hughes – CS Brian Prosser
Production
The series reflected the commitment made in April 2013 by the Director of BBC Cymru Wales, Rhodri Talfan Davies, to show more Welsh language life and culture on the mainstream BBC channels.[1]
On a tight budget—taking two and a half years to raise the funds—the total production cost was £4.2 million.[4] The programme makers received £215,000 in repayable business funding from the Welsh Government. The programme was mainly filmed in Aberystwyth and the surrounding Ceredigion region on the west coast of Wales, taking place over a 124 day period in 2013. The show was filmed in both Welsh and English, with the location-based production offices contained within the former Ceredigion Council offices Swyddfa'r Sir, which also acts as the external scene of the show's police station.
The Welsh version was broadcast (in eight parts) on S4C in October 2013, with the bilingual version (in four parts) broadcast on BBC One Wales in January 2014 and on BBC Four later that year.[5]
The broadcaster which produced The Killing, Danmarks Radio (DR), acquired the rights in 2012 to broadcast the show in Denmark,[6] noticeably before filming had even commenced.[1]
Broadcasts
- Wales: The Welsh-language version of the series premiered on S4C on 29 October 2013.
- Wales: A bilingual version premiered on BBC One Wales on 4 January 2014.
- United Kingdom: The bilingual version was screened UK-wide on BBC Four in 2014, with the first episode on 28 April.[7]
- Denmark: DR broadcast the bilingual version, with the title "Mord i Wales", on 12, 19 and 26 May and 2 June 2014.
- Norway: NRK premiered the bilingual version on 11 April 2014.
- The Netherlands: KRO premiered the English-language version on 20 May 2014.
- Belgium: the Flemish public broadcasting organization VRT started airing the Welsh-language version on 14 July 2014.[8]
- Finland: YLE premiered the bilingual version, with the title "Syrjäinen maa", on 12 October 2014[9]
- Slovenia: The bilingual version premiered on RTVSLO, their public broadcaster on 14 April 2014, with the title "Zločini v Walesu" (Crimes in Wales). The 4-part first series continued on 21, 28 April and 5 May respectively. The first series was repeated the following year in April and May.[10]
On-demand streaming service Netflix streams the series online across North America.[11]
Episodes
Series 1 (2013–14)
| No. | Title | Director | Writers | S4C airdate | BBC Wales airdate | Viewers (S4C)[12] | Viewers (BBC One Wales) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Devil's Bridge" | Marc Evans | David Joss Buckley & Ed Thomas | 29 October 2013 31 October 2013 | 4 January 2014 (21:30) | 81,000 58,000 | 350,000 |
| On his first day in his new job in Aberystwyth, DCI Tom Mathias is called out to investigate a suspicious disappearance. In a quiet seaside bungalow, he discovers a bathroom covered in blood but no sign of the owner. | |||||||
| 2 | "Night Music" | Gareth Bryn | Ed Talfan | 5 November 2013 7 November 2013 | 13 January 2014 (21:00) 13 January 2014 (22:35) | 66,000 57,000 | 668,000 |
| The investigation of the murder of a 69-year-old uncovers a bloody history in the mountains. There were many suspects in this case. | |||||||
| 3 | "Penwyllt" | Rhys Powys | David Joss Buckley & Ed Thomas | 12 November 2013 14 November 2013 | 20 January 2014 (21:00) 20 January 2014 (22:35) | 72,000 66,000 | 566,000 |
| In the isolated village of Penwyllt, the body of a young man is found in the murky depths of a quarry lake, and the investigation draws Mathias into the heart of the close-knit community. | |||||||
| 4 | "The Girl in the Water" | Ed Thomas | Jeff Murphy | 19 November 2013 21 November 2013 | 27 January 2014 (21:00) 27 January 2014 (22:35) | 64,000 49,000 | 663,000 |
| The body of a young woman in a red dress is found in Borth marshes - but the killer has arranged the corpse very carefully. Mathias is determined to get the culprit, but the case pushes him to the edge, personally and professionally. | |||||||
Series 2 (2015)
A second series will air on S4C in autumn 2015. Filming took place in Ceredigion in September 2014.[13]
A feature-length one-off special aired on S4C on 1 January 2015,[14] it was later aired on BBC One Wales on 6 April 2015,[15] and made available on BBC iPlayer.
Reception
The Times gave the show a rating of four stars out of five.[16]
Ratings
The first episode of Hinterland, broadcast on BBC One Wales, attracted 350,000 viewers, making it the most watched programme in Wales at the time.[17] The first episode was later aired nationwide on BBC Four on 28 April 2014 to an audience of 789,000.[18] Episodes 2–4 were watched by 668,000; 566,000 and 663,000 viewers respectively.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wayne Davies (3 January 2014). "English language debut for hit noir series Hinterland". Wales Online. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ↑ "Characters". S4C. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "Aberystwyth police drama Y Gwyll gets second series". BBC News. 27 November 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ Moss, Stephen (30 July 2013). "Hinterland – the TV noir so good they made it twice". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ↑ Yapp, Carl (15 December 2012). "BBC News - The Killing TV company turns to Aberystwyth police drama". BBC News. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ↑ Khalsa, Balihar (13 December 2012). "DR Denmark makes move for Welsh drama Hinterland | News | Broadcast". Broadcastnow. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ↑ "Welsh acquisition Hinterland comes to BBC Four". BBC Media Centre. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ↑ "Hinterland (Welsh)". Vlaamse Radio- en Televisie. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ↑ "Syrjäinen maa". Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ↑ "Napovednik". MMC RTV Slovenija. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ↑ "Welsh drama Hinterland picked up for Netflix streaming". Wales Online. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ↑ "Ffigurau Gwylio S4C: Ugain Uchaf Rhaglenni Cymraeg - Wythnos yn dod i ben 29/12/2013" (in Welsh). S4C. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "New series of Hinterland announced". Wales Online. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ↑ "Episode Guide". S4C Online. 27 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054f2dt
- ↑ Potton, Ed (30 October 2013). "Last night’s TV : The Escape Artist". The Times. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "Hinterland a hit with TV audiences". BBC Media Centre. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "Weekly > Top 10s". Broadcast Audience Research Board.
External links
- S4C's webpage for "Y Gwyll" (in English)
- Hinterland at BBC Programmes
- Hinterland at the Internet Movie Database
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