7.6 /10 1 Votes
Genre Crime drama Country of origin Wales No. of series 3 Production location Aberystwyth Number of seasons 1 | 7.6/10 IMDb 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 Profiles |
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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Hinterland y gwyll series one trailer
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
Television channels
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.