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Genre
  
Crime drama

Country of origin
  
Wales

No. of series
  
3

Production location
  
Aberystwyth

Number of seasons
  
1

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Created by
  
Ed Talfan Ed Thomas

Original language(s)
  
Welsh • English

First episode date
  
29 October 2013

Also known as
  
'Hinterland'

Number of episodes
  
25

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Starring
  
Richard Harrington Mali Harries Alex Harries Hannah Daniel Aneirin Hughes

Cast
  
Richard Harrington, Mali Harries, Alex Harries, Hannah Daniel, Aneirin Hughes

Similar
  
Shetland, Broadchurch, Happy Valley, Wallander, Pobol y Cwm

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Y Gwyll (English translation: The Dusk), titled Hinterland in the English-language version, is a Welsh noir police detective drama series broadcast on S4C in Welsh. The main character, DCI Tom Mathias, is played by Richard Harrington. On 27 November 2013, a second series was announced by S4C. An English language version, with brief passages of Welsh dialogue, aired on BBC One Wales. When it was aired on the BBC in 2014, it was the first BBC television drama with dialogue in both English and Welsh. A third series of the show began filming in January 2016 and debuted on S4C on 30 October.

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Production

The series reflects the commitment made in April 2013 by the Director of BBC Cymru Wales, Rhodri Talfan Davies, to show more Welsh language life and culture on the mainstream BBC channels.

On a tight budget—funds that took two and a half years to raise—the total production cost was £4.2 million. The programme makers received £215,000 in repayable business funding from the Welsh Government and the programme was mainly filmed in Aberystwyth and the surrounding Ceredigion region on the west coast of Wales, over a 124‑day period in 2013. The show was filmed in both Welsh and English, with the location-based production offices contained within the former Ceredigion Council offices Swyddfa'r Sir, which also acts as the external scene of the show's police station.

The Welsh version was broadcast (in eight parts) on S4C in October 2013, with the bilingual version (in four parts) broadcast on BBC One Wales in January 2014 and on BBC Four later that year. The broadcaster that produced The Killing, Danmarks Radio (DR), acquired the rights in 2012 to broadcast the show in Denmark, before filming had commenced.

Cast

  • Richard Harrington as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Mathias
  • Mali Harries as Detective Inspector Mared Rhys
  • Alex Harries as Detective Constable Lloyd Elis
  • Hannah Daniel as Detective Sergeant Siân Owen
  • Aneirin Hughes as Chief Superintendent Brian Prosser

    • Television channels

  • Belgium: the Flemish public broadcasting organization VRT started airing the Welsh-language version on 14 July 2014.
  • Denmark: DR broadcast the bilingual version, with the title "Mord i Wales", on 12, 19 and 26 May and 2 June 2014.
  • Finland: YLE premiered the bilingual version, with the title "Syrjäinen maa", on 12 October 2014.
  • A German-dubbed version, with the title Inspector Mathias – Mord in Wales, started on German television Das Erste on 12 July 2015.
  • Norway: NRK premiered the bilingual version on 11 April 2014.
  • Poland: Ale Kino+ broadcast the first series in the bilingual version, titled Hinterland, on 5, 12, 19 and 26 November 2014.
  • Slovenia: The bilingual version premiered on RTVSLO, their public broadcaster on 14 April 2014, with the title "Zločini v Walesu" (Crimes in Wales). The four-part first series continued on 21, 28 April and 5 May respectively. The first series was repeated the following year in April and May.
  • The Netherlands: KRO premiered the bilingual version on 20 May 2014.
  • United Kingdom: The bilingual version was first screened UK-wide on BBC Four in 2014, with the first series broadcasting from April 28 until 19 May, 2014. The second series was broadcast from 23 April until 21 May, 2016. The first series aired on Monday nights, whereas the second series aired on Saturday nights.
  • France: Broadcast on Netflix in a French version and a Breton version (Serr-Noz) on local channels, Tébéo, Tébésud et TVR, with French subtitles

    • Netflix

    On-demand streaming service Netflix streams the English-language Hinterland series online across Japan, North America, South America, Europe, and New Zealand. The version available on Netflix differs from those originally transmitted in the United Kingdom: it is almost exclusively an English language version, and two part episodes are combined. Only season 1 and 2 are available to stream on Netflix.

    References

    Y Gwyll Wikipedia
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