Misfits (TV series)

Misfits
Genre	Action Black comedy Drama Science fiction Superhero fiction
Created by	Howard Overman
Written by	Howard Overman Jon Brown Mike O'Leary
Creative director	Mollie Sian Smith
Starring	Iwan Rheon Robert Sheehan Lauren Socha Nathan Stewart-Jarrett Antonia Thomas Joe Gilgun Karla Crome Nathan McMullen Natasha O'Keeffe Matt Stokoe
Opening theme	"Echoes" by The Rapture
Ending theme	"Main Titles" by Vince Pope
Composer	Vince Pope
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	37 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Howard Overman Murray Ferguson Matt Jarvis Petra Fried
Producers	Kate Crowe Matt Strevens Nick Pitt
Production location	London
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	45 minutes
Production company	Clerkenwell Films
Original release
Network	E4
Release	12 November 2009 (2009-11-12) – 11 December 2013 (2013-12-11)
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Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show, on E4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The show premiered on 12 November 2009 and concluded on 11 December 2013 in its fifth series.

Antonia Thomas, Iwan Rheon, Lauren Socha, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Robert Sheehan are introduced as Alisha Daniels, Simon Bellamy, Kelly Bailey, Curtis Donovan, and Nathan Young respectively. Sheehan left after the second series and was replaced in the third by Joseph Gilgun as Rudy Wade. After the third series, it was announced that Rheon, Thomas, and Socha had left and would be replaced by new cast members Karla Crome, Nathan McMullen and Matt Stokoe, as Jess, Finn, and Alex respectively. Midway through the fourth series, Stewart-Jarrett left while Natasha O'Keeffe joined the cast as Abbey Smith.^[1]