As Peter drives around in his beloved Alvis,
investigating one case after another, we see the community through his
eyes.
We watch him as he helps with various and varied problems, ranging from
recurring battles with the council from the cantankerous and litigious
villager Mr Snell to bitter battles of custody.
Kingdom is ultimately about three families: Peter’s own dysfunctional family, Simon, his missing brother, his lustful younger sister Beatrice who wreaks havoc when she comes to live with him after being released from a rehabilitation clinic, and his dotty Aunt Auriel; then his family in the office, Lyle, the sharp trainee solicitor who works in Peter’s practice always dreaming of escaping the sleepy backwater for the bright lights of the metropolis and Gloria his faithful receptionist and confidante; and finally the family of Market Shipborough. Peter feels he has a personal responsibility for all of them.
 |
 |
 |
6 x 1 hour
Starring
Stephen Fry
Stormbreaker, Blackadder, Jeeves & Wooster
Hermione Norris
Spooks, Wire in the Blood,
The Kindness of Strangers, Cold Feet
Celia Imrie
Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason, The Last Detective,
Calendar Girls
Phyllida Law
Pinochet in Suburbia,
Waking the Dead
Karl Davies
Dead Clever, Dolphins, Emmerdale
Tony Slattery
The Crying Game,
English Harem
Simon Wheeler & Alan Whiting
Written by Alan Whiting
Wire in the Blood, Down
to Earth, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Jeff Povey
EastEnders, Blue Murder, Wire in the
Blood
Directed by
Robin Sheppard
Perfect Strangers, Between the Sheets,
At Home with the Braithwaites
Metin Huseyi
Anita and Me, The Legend of the Tamworth
Two
Sandy Johnson
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet,
William and Mary
Producer Georgina Lowe
A Good Murder, Fingersmith,
Tipping the Velvet
Executive producers Simon Wheeler and Stephen Fry
Kingdom is a Parallel Film and Television production in association with
Sprout for ITV1 in the UK.