7.6 /10 1 Votes
7.9/10 TV Composer(s) Nick Green Original language(s) English Network Sky 1 | 7.2/10 IMDb Created by Stan Lee
Neil Biswas Country of origin United Kingdom First episode date 22 January 2016 Program creator Stan Lee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring James Nesbitt
Eve Best
Sienna Guillory
Amara Karan
Darren Boyd
Steven Mackintosh
Stephen Hagan
Thekla Reuten
Omid Djalili
Jing Lusi
John Hopkins Opening theme Lucky Man by Corinne Bailey Rae Executive producers Richard Fell, Gareth Neame, Anne Mensah Genres Action Film, Crime, Supernatural Similar The Last Panthers, The Runaway, Broadchurch, London Spy, Case Histories | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stan Lee's Lucky Man is a British television drama series, produced by Carnival Films and POW! Entertainment for Sky 1, which follows the story of Murder Squad detective Harry Clayton (James Nesbitt), who is granted the power to control luck. The first series debuted on January 22, 2016, and averaged 1.49 million viewers per episode, making it Sky 1's most successful original drama series to date. The series has been renewed for a second season, which began filming in June 2016 and was first broadcast on February 24, 2017.
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Plot
DI Harry Clayton is a detective in Central London's Murder Squad suffering from a gambling addiction. Clayton becomes the recipient of an ancient bracelet—after a night spent with the mysterious Eve, he wakes up with the bracelet on his wrist and discovers that it gives him supernatural luck. With his gambling addiction having cost him his wife and daughter, and being in debt for thousands of pounds to a casino owner, Clayton soon begins to use the bracelet to his own advantage.
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Development
The concept for the series began as Stan Lee's answer to fans' questions about what super power he would like to have: luck. After starting up POW!, he and his team considered making a TV series based on such a super power. Neil Biswas then took Lee's original idea and wrote the pilot episode, developing the central character and the world around him. With the help of his writing team, Biswas developed the mythology for the first series: Stan Lee's original idea of a lucky charm that is given to a compulsive gambler became an ancient bracelet that Harry Clayton wakes up with on his wrist, after a night spent with the mysterious Eve. With his gambling addiction having cost him his wife and daughter, and being in debt for thousands of pounds to a casino owner, Clayton soon begins to use the bracelet to his own advantage.
The series is executive produced by Richard Fell and Gareth Neame, with Stan Lee and Gill Champion serving as co-executive producers. Neil Biswas, who was the lead writer of the first season, also co-executive produced and was credited as co-creator of the show.