Television: Cuffs
PC Ryan Draper (Ashley Walters)
Ryan is the main character and is shown in different stereotype, he's shown as the hard working, angry and experienced officer which shows Jake the ropes. Im 1015 there was a massive government cut which affected policemen extremely.
PC Jake Vickers (Jacob Ifan)
He is shown as the weakest officer, he is new to the job and doesn't know what to do as he 'jumped the sue' due to his dad being an officer thats really high up. This soon becomes annoying and his mentor, PC Ryan Draper analyses his every move because of his lack of experience.
DS Jo Moffat (Amenda Abbington)
She is a talented detective, and diligent and organised. However her personal life isn't so good. She is a single woman and divorced. She represents a lot of struggle which would have happened in the police force, like not having funds for certain cases and struggles with solving cases.
Chief Super Robert Vickers (Peter Sullivan)
Father of Jake, Robert is the head chief of the police force. He organises most things and presents cases to the media. He is a great representation of the struggles of the police force and budget cuts which happened in 2015, he has to present mistakes to the media which could have been solved via better communication or a higher budget.
DC Carl Hawkins (Shaun Dooley)
Carl is a detective constable on the police force, he beliegs everything will eventually turn out okay.
DI Felix Kane (Paul Ready)
Felix is detective inspector on the police force, he has always been a loner however is diligent and organised on the job.
PC Donna Prager (Eleanor Matsoura)
Donna is another one of the leading officers, she is haed working and always up for the job. Her and Lino are best mates and always up for the job.
PC Lino Moretti (Alex Carter)
Lino is again one of the other leading officers in the job, he isn't the most hard working or up to scale on fitness but him and Donna are a good duo in fighting the crime.
Homework:
Characters
The characters all have personal backgrounds and interesting stories behind them. Also integrated is how this affects their job, for example, Ryan's son is always skyving school off doing parkour so Ryan has to deal with his son being a single dad, slowing down how efficient he does his job. There is one slight problem with the stories though, there are many characters and we get bombarded with a lot of info at once, perhaps less info or more time for it to be given would make it perfect.
Performances
The performances of the characters are excellent, not much can be said to criticize. For example when Jake first goes out on the job he messes up trying to calm down Nathan, Ryan intervenes and the continued actions and gestures really show Jake's emotions.
Plotlines
Just like the characters, all the stories and narratives are excellent. The narratives for just one episode are great and the prolonged personal narratives intended to last over episodes are also. Exactly the same with characters though we are bombarded with narratives and plots so a bit less of them or more time for them to be explained would make them great.
Tone
Personally, the tone of the series is great. You have a mixture of humour and serious moments. For example when Jake punches and knocks out the murderer from the start of the episode, it's a serious situation as the murderer could have seriously injured Ryan, but when he punches and a moves his hand around in agony we get a sense of a humorous tone as he doesn't go to arrest him straight away he just does a funny act.
Audience appeal
In general, the audience appeal would definitely be for 15/16 year olds up, the humour and lack of any gory moments makes it suitable for a younger audience to watch it, and the more serious moments and moments that push the line for what is acceptable would appeal to older audienceinto this genre of programme.
Ryan is the main character and is shown in different stereotype, he's shown as the hard working, angry and experienced officer which shows Jake the ropes. Im 1015 there was a massive government cut which affected policemen extremely.
PC Jake Vickers (Jacob Ifan)
He is shown as the weakest officer, he is new to the job and doesn't know what to do as he 'jumped the sue' due to his dad being an officer thats really high up. This soon becomes annoying and his mentor, PC Ryan Draper analyses his every move because of his lack of experience.
DS Jo Moffat (Amenda Abbington)
She is a talented detective, and diligent and organised. However her personal life isn't so good. She is a single woman and divorced. She represents a lot of struggle which would have happened in the police force, like not having funds for certain cases and struggles with solving cases.
Chief Super Robert Vickers (Peter Sullivan)
Father of Jake, Robert is the head chief of the police force. He organises most things and presents cases to the media. He is a great representation of the struggles of the police force and budget cuts which happened in 2015, he has to present mistakes to the media which could have been solved via better communication or a higher budget.
DC Carl Hawkins (Shaun Dooley)
Carl is a detective constable on the police force, he beliegs everything will eventually turn out okay.
DI Felix Kane (Paul Ready)
Felix is detective inspector on the police force, he has always been a loner however is diligent and organised on the job.
PC Donna Prager (Eleanor Matsoura)
Donna is another one of the leading officers, she is haed working and always up for the job. Her and Lino are best mates and always up for the job.
PC Lino Moretti (Alex Carter)
Lino is again one of the other leading officers in the job, he isn't the most hard working or up to scale on fitness but him and Donna are a good duo in fighting the crime.
Homework:
Characters
The characters all have personal backgrounds and interesting stories behind them. Also integrated is how this affects their job, for example, Ryan's son is always skyving school off doing parkour so Ryan has to deal with his son being a single dad, slowing down how efficient he does his job. There is one slight problem with the stories though, there are many characters and we get bombarded with a lot of info at once, perhaps less info or more time for it to be given would make it perfect.
Performances
The performances of the characters are excellent, not much can be said to criticize. For example when Jake first goes out on the job he messes up trying to calm down Nathan, Ryan intervenes and the continued actions and gestures really show Jake's emotions.
Plotlines
Just like the characters, all the stories and narratives are excellent. The narratives for just one episode are great and the prolonged personal narratives intended to last over episodes are also. Exactly the same with characters though we are bombarded with narratives and plots so a bit less of them or more time for them to be explained would make them great.
Tone
Personally, the tone of the series is great. You have a mixture of humour and serious moments. For example when Jake punches and knocks out the murderer from the start of the episode, it's a serious situation as the murderer could have seriously injured Ryan, but when he punches and a moves his hand around in agony we get a sense of a humorous tone as he doesn't go to arrest him straight away he just does a funny act.
Audience appeal
In general, the audience appeal would definitely be for 15/16 year olds up, the humour and lack of any gory moments makes it suitable for a younger audience to watch it, and the more serious moments and moments that push the line for what is acceptable would appeal to older audienceinto this genre of programme.
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