(gentle music) - It's completely unique in British television.
By the time this goes out, it will be 11, 12 years that we've been working together, and making this show together.
And it's a unique experiment, and a successful one, because the show continues to do extremely well.
We respect each other immensely, and I think it's just a fantastic working relationship now.
- Come on!
- Chris is such a brilliant writer, so clever.
- The script's complex.
He has empathy at the heart of his writing.
- So I start with a theme.
And then into that theme, I start introducing characters that I think could help me express that theme in multiple ways, interesting ways, but all connected to the theme.
- Every season has kind of run parallel to what the society is facing, and the issues that it needs to speak about.
- The thing I love about "Unforgotten" is it is so character-driven.
It's a really, really deep dive into four, five, six different characters.
I'd like you to leave.
- Super job!
Well done.
- Andy Wilson, our director, is brilliant.
He's directed every single episode.
- 36 hours of "Unforgotten," and so he knows the world as well as anybody else.
- Andy is an actor's director.
- He's sort of got a way of helping you get into that head space and into that world.
It's, that is marvelous.
- Well, you rarely get the privilege of being able to make as many series as this.
And you never get the privilege of doing it with the same people.
- Such a brilliant team, such a brilliant crew.
You know, everybody is so lovely and so welcoming.
Andy's created a set that is fun to be on.
- You wouldn't think it being on such a serious drama, but there has been so much laughter and joy.
It's been everything for me.
- I mean, I've had a theater company for seven years with the same actors, and this is the closest to that wonderful experience that I've ever had making film and television.
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