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Composer(s)
  
John Lunn

Final episode date
  
22 August 2006

Number of episodes
  
6

7.7/10
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Genre
  
Drama

First episode date
  
18 July 2006

Theme song
  
Bang Bang You're Dead

Networks
  
BBC, BBC One, BBC HD

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Written by
  
Danny Brocklehurst Steve Lightfoot Richard Stoneman

Directed by
  
Iain B. Macdonald Marc Jobst

Starring
  
Neil Dudgeon Will Mellor Hugo Speer Cal MacAninch Dean Lennox Kelly Mark Womack

Opening theme
  
"Bang Bang You're Dead" by Dirty Pretty Things

Cast
  
Dean Lennox Kelly, Neil Dudgeon, Will Mellor, Hugo Speer, Cal MacAninch

Similar
  
New Street Law, Clocking Off, Accused, Exile, Talk to Me

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Sorted is a six-part BBC television drama series that was first broadcast in 2006 on BBC One and BBC HD. The series was created by Danny Brocklehurst, whose previous credits including Clocking Off, The Stretford Wives and Shameless. The series, set in Manchester but filmed in Stockport, follows the personal and professional lives of several postmen, and stars Neil Dudgeon, Will Mellor, Hugo Speer, Cal MacAninch and Dean Lennox Kelly.

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The series achieved an average of four million viewers throughout it's run, and was the only BBC drama series that year that achieved stronger ratings for it's final episode than it's first. Despite this - and the largely good critical response - the BBC announced in October 2006 that it would not recommission the programme. The name of the series has a double meaning - postal workers 'sort' mail for delivery and "sorted" is a common slang word for approval used in Manchester.

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Production

Producer Steve Lightfoot said of the series; "The warmth, wit and camaraderie of these very ordinary blokes ensures they can see each other through whatever life throws at them. It's very real, with powerful, emotional storylines which will hook viewers in to their world. The sorting office is where the boys come together at the start of every day. They're a tight knit group, but with their shift finishing in the afternoon, there's plenty of time to see what they get up to away from the Post Office. There are storylines which run through the series but each episode focuses in on one of the six."

Writer Danny Brocklehurst noted; "What this was supposed to be was very much in that Clocking Off or The Lakes kind of vein of telling stories about people who actually – other than in soaps – don't make it onto television that often. It's about ordinary, working-class lives. I wanted to tell stories with dignity and humanity and truth about ordinary people, and even though the stories are not always life and death, they are really important to those characters. I think that there's not enough of that type of telly on these days. People want to sit down at the end of the day and watch something that they see a bit of themselves in."

"It's been really refreshing [to write a series starring predominantly male characters] because you can tap into that side of you that you understand – because obviously I am a man! I've never really written blokey blokes before in this kind of way. There are thousands of postmen in the UK - they're part of everyone's lives. I interviewed a lot of postmen just to try and get a flavour of the world and to try and really understand it and how it all works. I knew nothing about this before, even though I have an uncle who's a postman, but I got told some funny little stories about things that happened; one of which made it into the show - the battle of the radios in the first episode. That's from real life."

Cast

  • Hugo Speer — Charlie King
  • Neil Dudgeon — Harry Goodwin
  • Cal MacAninch — Radge
  • Dean Lennox Kelly — Dex
  • Will Mellor — Barmpot
  • Mark Womack — Jack
  • Eva Pope — Kathy
  • Nina Sosanya — Nancy
  • Tracy-Ann Oberman — Amy
  • Maria Doyle Kennedy — Roisin
  • Josephine Butler — Abigail
  • Mark Fountain — Aiden
  • Julian Walsh — Hancock
  • Katie Ross — Jess
  • References

    Sorted (TV series) Wikipedia