7.4 /10 1 Votes
73% Metacritic Created by Anthony Horowitz Country of origin United Kingdom Program creator Anthony Horowitz | 7.5/10 IMDb Genre Crime
Drama
Mystery Directed by Marc Evans Final episode date 13 November 2009 Networks ITV, STV, UTV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Anthony Horowitz and Michael A. Walker Starring Douglas Henshall
Kate Ashfield
Paul McGann
Lucy Griffiths
Phil Davis
Jan Francis
Sylvia Syms
Dean Lennox Kelly
Craig Kelly
Zoe Telford
Claire Rushbrook
David Bamber
Colin McFarlane
Lenora Crichlow Cast Douglas Henshall, Lucy Griffiths, Paul McGann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collision is a five-part television drama serial, which debuted on ITV & UTV in November 2009. In the same month, it was also on PBS as a series in two parts. It tells the story of a group of strangers whose lives intertwine following a devastating car crash. The crash opens a number of startling revelations as stories of everything from government cover-ups and smuggling, to embezzlement and murder start to unravel.
The series is open-ended, with a number of unresolved issues; moreover, the story is ostensibly resolved in a metafictional manner with a flashback to an incident in the service station and the swatting of a wasp, which precipitates the initial crash, thus allowing the characters to continue on their journeys. The wasp as a motif and theme is frequently in evidence throughout the series.
The original British broadcast of Collision was edited from the original 5 hours (shown in five parts) down to three and a half hours (210 minutes, shown in two parts). The American broadcast on PBS's Masterpiece Contemporary, the Australian broadcast on ABC1 and the Region 1 (America and Canada) DVD release all featured the shortened version. In Australia, Foxtel and Austar's W Channel aired Collision in its original format of five 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisements), Tuesday, 15 March 2011.