Acorn Media will release on Blu-ray the entire set of Prime Suspect, the award-winning series starring Helen
Mirren originally shown on the BBC in England and PBS in America. The
set is comprised of seven miniseries spanning 1991 through 2006. The street date is August
27.
Oscar® winner Helen Mirren is Detective Jane Tennison, "one of the great character
creations of
our time" (The Washington Post), in a series that won more than 20 major
international awards
and raised the bar for police dramas.
Tenacious, driven, and deeply flawed, Tennison rises through the ranks of Britain's
Metropolitan
Police, solving horrific crimes while battling office sexism and her own demons. "Rare is the
drama that works so well on two levels: as a crackling whodunit and as a finely tuned
character
study of a strong but insecure woman trying to prove herself in a man's world"
(Time). The series
follows Tennison from the first investigation of which she's allowed to take charge (an
especially
gruesome murder) to the months just before her retirement.
Seen on Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! and created by crime writer Lynda La Plante,
Prime
Suspect features some of Britain's biggest stars, including Ralph Fiennes (The
English Patient),
Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton), Zoë Wanamaker (Poirot),
David Thewlis (Harry Potter),
Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes), Ciarán Hinds (Jane Eyre),
Tom Bell (Reilly: Ace of Spies), and
Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting).
Special features for the 7-disc set will include a behind-the-scenes special (50 min.), a
behind-the-scenes featurette for Series 6 (23 min.), photo gallery and cast filmographies.