Looks like channel 5 are ramping up the promotion of Suspects as an extended trailer with cast interviews was aired tonight. Fingers crossed they'll stick it on you tube soon.
Here are a few pics I managed to catch to whet your appetites....

He's checking his phone & grinning here. I like to think he's reading twitter 

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oh le sigh, I'm in love!  9 days till we meet Jack Weston!!!

That last picture is definitely the yummiest!  I'm loving the post-Flight, almost-Dan look!  Another make-up artist to be jealous of...

So yes, according to Fay, 20 true days of filming, though it must have been spread out a bit between episodes so they could prep.  If they are being followed along from 1st call to finally catching the suspect, then it is possible as Kat says they would film fairly linearly and very few takes.  It does have a documentary feel just from the trailers we've seen.

9 DAYS!!!!!

The Radio Times has Suspects Episode 2 listed for Wednesday 19th, so that confirms it will be every Wednesday!

the episode synopsis has been added here:

SUSPECTS EPISODE 2 - 19 February 2014

yup! 4 days 13 hours!

A few interviews with Fay Ripley have appeared, as they are not Damien interviews I thought we could post them in this topic. They seem to be generically the same with a few nuances.


The Talented Ms Ripley - interview with Suspects star Fay Ripley | Oxford Mail

The Talented Ms Ripley | Plymouth Herald

Ripley: Police pressure got to me | Express and Star

Ripley: Police pressure got to me | Belfast Telegraph

Everything about this series is sounding very positive.  And, just in case you've forgotten.....from Wednesday Damien is going to be a lead charater on tv for an hour every week until the beginning of April!!

Suspects is one of the top TV picks in the Metro

Line Of Duty, Suspects and Midsomer Murders: TV picks | Metro UK

and the Guardian:

TV Highlights 12/02/2014 | The Guardian 

I really like this Suspects piece from the Bath Chronicle:

TV preview: Suspects, Channel 5 at 10pm | The Bath Chronicle

"Shot mockumentary style, Suspects is presented as a fly on the wall documentary that follows a serious crime unit operating in London, so far so ordinary right? Wrong. Suspects has a twist in it's makeup that gives it the potential to blow even the strongest competitors out of the water in that it's totally unscripted.


Let me repeat that, Channel 5 are producing a mockumentary about a serious crime unit that is totally unscripted. To say that this is a bold move would be an understatement.


After all, most dramas rely on the scripts to shape the characters and to move the plot. However, Suspects takes the nod from famously unscripted US comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm in that the actors are given the plot points needed to hit within each scene and then allowed to get on with it. This, at least in theory, gives you a much wider scope to get the best from your cast.


After all, the reactions to changes in the plot will be as close to real as you can get as the actors aren't playing cops in so far as the classic definition of acting goes. They are, instead, playing themselves if they were police as opposed to actors. As a concept that's about as easy as it comes to explaining it."

I know I've said it before....but have just been musing how far away from Ripper Street Suspects is....

It's ironic considering that Damien plays a detective in both, but almost everything about these 2 shows is different!....from each other, but also from anything else on tv... And they both have autenticity - a gritty realism.

Ripper street is meticulously scripted with a large budget and lots of post production.....that's part of what makes it quality drama.....in contrast to the low budget/unscripted/low production aspects of Suspects.....not to mention the 10(ish) hours of tv shot in 5 weeks!    It must make for a very different working experience too....

Ah..yes - I should've put 'quality drama' in quotes.  I did say '...part of what makes it quality...'! 

The production of Ripper Street is surely a significant factor in what makes it a quality drama, though? and that level of production (just the sheer number of people involved alone) is what makes it expensive.  That absolutely doesn't mean that I think something needs to have a lot of money spent on it to be quality........