Bedlam (2011 TV series)
| Bedlam | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Neil Jones David Allison Chris Parker |
| Starring |
Theo James Will Young Charlotte Salt Ashley Madekwe Hugo Speer Lacey Turner Jack Roth Nikesh Patel Gemma Chan |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Matthew Bird |
| Running time | 45 mins approx |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Sky Living Sky Living HD |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 7 February 2011 – 11 July 2012 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Bedlam is a British supernatural drama television series created by David Allison, Neil Jones, and Chris Parker. It was first broadcast on 7 February 2011 on Sky Living and Sky Living HD. The series finale was broadcast on 15 March 2011. In December 2011, it was announced that a second series had been commissioned for broadcasting in Spring 2012 with an updated cast. Series 2 was broadcast from June 2012 with Lacey Turner taking the lead as a suspended paramedic who can see dead people.
On 13 November 2012 Jack Roth, who plays Max in the series, revealed that Bedlam may return for Series 3 and that a decision on the show's future is to be made around Christmas 2012. On 11 March 2013 Roth announced on Twitter that Bedlam would not be returning for a third series.
The series focused on an upmarket block of flats called "Bedlam Heights", which was formerly a mental asylum, and the strange hauntings that occur there. New arrival Jed Harper (Theo James) possesses the ability to see the ghosts, which are generally not visible to others, and receives visions of their deaths. The hauntings are generally malevolent, and it is up to Jed to determine the spirits' motives and thwart their goals. His flatmates are his adopted cousin, Kate (Charlotte Salt), who assists her father, Warren (Hugo Speer), who owns the complex; Ryan (Will Young), who is troubled by the recent violent death of his brother; and Molly (Ashley Madekwe), a childhood friend of Kate and Jed. The asylum was formerly owned and run by Warren's family for generations and he worked there when his father ran it, before it was closed down after ill-treatment of patients was revealed. The second series saw the cast changed, with suspended paramedic Ellie (Lacey Turner) beginning to see ghosts. She travels to Bedlam Heights (now renamed Brighstone) in order to seek out Jed Harper. Whilst there, she befriends Max (Jack Roth), the complex's barman; Dan (Nikesh Patel), who has replaced Kate; and Keira (Gemma Chan), a childhood friend of Kate's and now Warren's girlfriend. Warren and, briefly, Kate are the only cast members to return from the first series.
The ghost of a man who died in a collision, but was not consciously aware of his death. He had been driving down the same road where he died picking up hitchhikers and murdering them out of subconscious realization that he was dead. He appears as a normal human at first but when Jed confronts him over the fact he is dead he changes into a full ghost with black eyes, pale skin and loses the ability to speak. He is able to pass on when Jed shows him that he died and that his wife's spirit is waiting for him on the road side where her body was thrown, allowing the two to cross over.
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