Sherwood was written by James Graham and was inspired by real events from his hometown of Nottinghamshire.
Two shocking and unexpected murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history while threatening to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners’ Strike three decades before. House Productions founders Juliette Howell and Tessa Ross said Sherwood is an “extraordinarily powerful drama,” while BBC drama controller Piers Wenger added that it is a “heartfelt and purposeful thriller.”
Lewis Arnold (Time, Des) is lead director and an executive producer, while the producer is Rebecca Hodgson (The Irregulars). Howell, Ross, and Harriet Spencer are executive producers for House Productions and Ben Irving will executive produce for BBC. BBC Studios will distribute the series internationally.
Reviews: The Independent, The FT, The Times, The Guardian, The Evening Standard,
“the BBC’s latest – and let me say up top, one of its greatest – drama series. The cleverest, most compelling show I’ve seen in years”
– The Guardian 5*
“This is going to be a knotty, complicated story, but I doubt it could be in better hands”
– The Times 4*
“sympathetic, vibrant storytelling”
– The Independent 4*
“Sherwood is an adeptly executed crime drama, driven by tight, deliberate plotting, genuinely unforeseen turns, and a palpable friction between its two detective protagonists.”
The FT 4*
“The performances are solid, with Manville (unsurprisingly) the standout, and the dialogue authentic. Lead director Lewis Arnold (Des, Time) has also done a stellar job of capturing that pressure cooker environment in which people who hate one another – so much so that some of them resort to murder – cannot help but get in one another’s way, such is the geography of where they live.”
– Radio Times