Five Days 2
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Synopsis
Headlines from newspapers around the world with one common theme: Fear!

Five Days 2 is set in a community, any community, where society must get along but in which inevitably all sides mutually fear the other. A baby is left in a toilet; a train driver lives his worst nightmare – again; a police force fighting a faceless enemy - who is friend and who is foe? An investigation of a suicide unexpectedly brings people together leaving them to question whether it was murder or part of a bigger plan; radical forces creating tension within a community; and relationships which are meant to last – but don’t. When all these elements come together in the melting pot of today’s multi-cultural society, you have all the ingredients...of an explosion. STARRING: Suranne Jones (Unforgiven), David Morissey (Red Riding, Sense & Sensibility), Anne Reid (Bleak House),Hugo Speer (Bleak House) and Matthew McNulty (Cranford, Larkrise to Candleford) CREATED BY: Gwyn Hughes (Criminal Justice, 5 Days) DIRECTOR: Toby Haynes and Peter Hoar EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Hilary Salmon (Criminal Justice)

Duration
5 x 60' 2 x 100'
Definition
SD
Genre
Drama
Subgenre
Series
Producer
BBC PRODUCTIONS
Production Year
2009
Press
'The acting is nicely understated – particularly from David Morrissey, who only got going last night, and Suranne Jones as DC Franklin. And though some people might find the pace too stately for a police procedural, I think the insanely complex plot benefits from having the space to breathe over five days.'
The Guardian '...it's a multilayered thriller juggling plenty of characters...So instantly and utterly addictive that you might as well cancel any plans you had for going out until Friday now.'
Mail On Sunday '...Gwyneth Hughes's second series of big issues and mysteries means there is no need to make other plans for the next five nights'
Sunday Times

'It’s asking a lot of time-pressed modern types to commit to a show that’s on every night of the week. But two days into Five Days (BBC1) and it’s looking like the commitment is well worth it: the traps have been set in this intelligent and uncompromising story and, like with a book whose pages you can’t help but keep turning, a strange kind of spell has been cast.'
Metro

'Suranne Jones, in particular, did a magnificent job as DC Laurie Franklin...'
Telegraph

'...the script contained fantastic individual moments: an early exchange between Jones's cautiously PC PC; her foot-in-mouth mum; and a Muslim cab driver offered a masterclass in social observation. There was also a wonderful honesty in the way Jones and Morrissey's will-they-won't-they romantic tension climaxed, not in quivering declarations but in a sozzled Morrissey's bald proposal...'
Independent

Ratings

Five Days 2 aired on five consecutive nights from Monday 1st March 2010, 9pm on BBC1:

Episode 1: 7.4 million viewers, 29.0% market share
Episode 2: 6.8 million viewers, 27.0% market share
Episode 3: 6.0 million viewers, 23.0% market share
Episode 4: 6.4 million viewers, 27.0% market share
Episode 5: 6.3 million viewers, 26.0% market share