For other uses, see Silent Witness (disambiguation).
Silent Witness
Title card (2015–2017)
Genre
Crime drama
Created by
Nigel McCrery
Starring
Amanda Burton John McGlynn Clare Higgins William Armstrong Ruth McCabe Mick Ford Nick Reding Mark Letheren William Gaminara Tom Ward Emilia Fox David Caves Liz Carr Richard Lintern Jason Wong Genesis Lynea Aki Omoshaybi Alastair Michael Rhiannon May
Theme music composer
Geoffrey Burgon (s. 1) John Harle (s. 2–present)
Composers
Geoffrey Burgon (s. 1) John Harle (s. 2–7) Paul Leonard-Morgan (s. 8) Sheridan Tongue (s. 9–20) Andy Price (s. 21–23) Nick Holywell-Walker (s. 24–25)
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
27
No. of episodes
248 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Caroline Oulton (s. 1–3) Patrick Spence (s. 4) Mike Dormer (s. 5) Jessica Pope (s. 6–9) Laura Mackie (s. 6–9) Hilary Salmon (s. 10–11, 19) Phillippa Giles (s. 12–18) Anne Pivcevic (s. 19–20) Richard Stokes (s. 21–23) Lawrence Till (s.24–25) Priscilla Parish (s. 24–26) Caroline Levy (s.24–25) Emilia Fox (s.24–27) Ed Whitmore (s.25) Suzi McIntosh (s.26-27)
Producers
Tony Dennis (s. 1) Alison Lumb (s. 2) Anne Pivcevic (s. 3) Lars Macfarlane (s. 4) Diana Kyle (s. 5) Nick Pitt (s. 6–8) Tim Bradley (s. 9–10) George Ormond (s. 11–12) Ruth Kenley-Letts (s. 13) Richard Burrell (s. 14–ep. 15.2) Mat Chaplin (ep. 15.3) Lachlan Mackinnon (ep. 15.4–15.6) Sharon Bloom (s. 16–18) Madonna Baptiste (s. 19) Ceri Meyrick (s. 20)
Running time
50 minutes (s. 1–5) 60 minutes (s. 6–present)
Production company
BBC Studios Drama Productions
A&E Networks(series1-3)
Original release
Network
BBC One
Release
21 February 1996 (1996-02-21) – present
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Silent Witness is a British crime drama television series produced by the BBC, which focuses on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in 1996, the series was created by Nigel McCrery, a former murder squad detective based in Nottingham. Twenty-seven series of Silent Witness have been broadcast since 1996, with series 27 airing in January/February 2024.[1]
Amanda Burton starred as primary character Dr. Sam Ryan before leaving the show during the eighth series. Since her departure, the series has featured an ensemble cast, which initially consisted of William Gaminara, Tom Ward and Emilia Fox, and later on David Caves, Liz Carr and Richard Lintern alongside Emilia Fox. At the end of series 23 Carr and Lintern both departed. The cast was joined by Genesis Lynea from series 24,[1] who departed at the end of series 25. Series 26 saw Aki Omoshaybi, Rhiannon May and Alistair Michael join the regular cast.[2]
The programme is broadcast in more than 235 territories,[2] including ABC in Australia,[3] Showcase and the Knowledge Network in Canada, KRO in the Netherlands, TV One[4] and Prime[5] in New Zealand, BBC First in South Africa and BBC America in the United States. Silent Witness continues to achieve good audience ratings in the UK. In 2011, for example, Series 14 attracted an average audience of nine million viewers.[6]
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^Liz Jaques. "TV Overnight Ratings; Retrieved 25 January 2011". MediaTel. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
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