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CUFFS

DRAMA / CRIME / ACTION

UNITED KINGDOM

2015

CUFFS is a crime drama series depicting the lives of front-line police officers within Brighton and the surrounding area of Sussex serving within the fictional South Sussex Police service. The series aired on BBC One, with episode one first transmitted on 28 October 2015. CUFFS consists of 8 episodes of 1 hour. 

STORY: The series focuses on the personal lives of the characters, against a backdrop of typical incidents faced by modern front-line police officers and more comedic ones such as hooligans harassing naturists on a nudist beach and reports of 'dog-napping' in a middle-class neighbourhood.

GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Jacob Ifan as PC Jake Vickers – the son of Chief Superintendent Robert Vickers. He is gay and is struggling as a new recruit. Jake Vickers has a tough first day on the job when his veteran partner doesn’t take him seriously. And his life gets even more complicated thanks to a romance with sexy lawyer Simon Reddington (Andrew Hawley).

PC Jake Vickers (Jacob Ifan) & Simon Reddington (Andrew Hawley)





JACOB IFAN (2015) April 28, 1993, Cardiff, UK 





ANDREW HAWLEY (2015) January 1, 1985, Sheffield, UK

SPECIAL: The eight-part series was the first police-based drama to be broadcast by the channel since the Holby City spin-off, HolbyBlue was aired in 2007, and it shared the same eight o'clock slot.

AWARDS:  ‘CUFFS’ none

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