Red Riding

Red Riding
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Genre	Crime thriller Drama
Based on	Red Riding by David Peace
Written by	Tony Grisoni
Directed by	Julian Jarrold James Marsh Anand Tucker
Starring	Mark Addy Sean Bean Jim Carter Warren Clarke Paddy Considine Shaun Dooley Gerard Kearns Andrew Garfield Rebecca Hall Sean Harris Eddie Marsan David Morrissey Peter Mullan Maxine Peake Lesley Sharp Robert Sheehan Laura Carter Danny Mays
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	3
Production
Executive producer	Andrew Eaton
Producers	Anita Overland Wendy Brazington
Running time	120 minutes
Production company	Revolution Films
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	5 March (2009-03-05) – 19 March 2009 (2009-03-19)
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Red Riding is a British crime drama limited series written by Tony Grisoni and based on the book series of the same name by David Peace. The series comprises the novels Nineteen Seventy-Four (1999), Nineteen Seventy-Seven (2000), Nineteen Eighty (2001) and Nineteen Eighty-Three (2002), and the first, third, and fourth of these novels became three feature-length television episodes, Red Riding 1974, Red Riding 1980, and Red Riding 1983. They aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 beginning on 5 March 2009. The three episodes were released theatrically in the United States between 5 and 11 February 2010, by IFC Films.^[1]

The context of the series uses fictionalized accounts of the investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer who stalked the Yorkshire area of England in the 1970s and 1980s. The name of the series is a reference to the murders and to their location, the historic county of Yorkshire being traditionally divided into three areas known as ridings.