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A Touch of Cloth Premiered on Sky1 on August 26, 2012

About the Show:
As far as we're concerned, Charlie Brooker's one of the UK's shining comedy lights - armed with a cutting wit and an encyclopaedic pop culture knowledge to match.

So we're very excited to announce he's joining forces with John Hannah and Suranne Jones for a special one-off comedy A Touch Of Cloth, which will spoof the very best and worst of British crime dramas made in the last decade.

Based on a story by Boris Starling (Messiah) the screenplay was written by Charlie Brooker (Dead Set) and Daniel Maier (Harry Hill’s TV Burp), with Ben Caudell, Peter Holmes, Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris. The programme was commissioned by Lucy Lumsden, Head of Comedy, Sky Entertainment.

A Touch of Cloth is an all-encompassing parody (1 x 120 minutes) of every police procedural ever written. It stars John Hannah (The Mummy, Spartacus) as DCI Jack Cloth - a maverick, heavy drinking loner who has thrown himself into his work following the mysterious death of his wife. The damaged, haunted Cloth is teamed with plucky no-nonsense sidekick DC Anne Oldman, played by Suranne Jones (Coronation Street, Unforgiven).

Together the pair investigate a series of increasingly grisly murders and find themselves on the trail of a devious killer. As you do. If you’re a detective. The case leads Cloth and Oldman from leafy forests to sinister lock-ups, from the luxury home of an arrogant TV chef to the cold dissection rooms of vampish forensic pathologist Natasha Sachet (Daisy Beaumont), packing in as many jokes as humanly possible along the way. Their boss, A.C.C. Tom Boss, played by Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing, The Hour) repeatedly demands results, fast. No, faster than that. Faster! Slow down. Not that much. Hold it there. Yeah, precisely that fast.

Lucy Lumsden, Head of Comedy, Sky Entertainment, commented: “Witty, naughty and unashamedly silly - Charlie Brooker gives the British TV Detective genre a right good comedy kicking with this one-off special for Sky 1 HD.”

Charlie Brooker, co-writer, commented: “After you’ve seen A Touch of Cloth you’ll never be able to watch another detective show again. Not because it’s a devastating pisstake, but because you’ll have smashed your TV to pieces in a disappointed fury.” Daniel Maier, co-writer, commented: “It’s like Airplane! for a detective series except for not being Police Squad”.

Cast:

Actor’s name	Character’s name
John Hannah	DI Jack Cloth
Suranne Jones	DC Anne Oldman
Julian Rhind-Tutt	ACC Tom Boss
Navin Chowdhry	DC Asap Qureshi
Adrian Bower	DC Des Harihan
Daisy Beaumont	Natasha Sachet
Raquel Cassidy	Clare Hawkchurch

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Episode 1: (Aug/26/2012)
Sleuthing collides with spoofing in the first part of this Charlie Brooker original comedy that tickles and twists crime drama clichés. Starring John Hannah and Suranne Jones.

Episode 2: (Aug/27/2012)
As Charlie Brooker's riotous spoof crime drama concludes, there's still a lot of work to do to nail the serial killer before he claims any further victims.

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Episode 1: (Aug/25/2013)
Cloth has quit the force, never to return. Well, until a bank robbery goes wrong. But things are awkward at the station, particularly with ACC Tom Boss back at work.

Episode 2: (Sep/01/2013)
Going even deeper undercover, Cloth learns that Macratty's big plan has got even bigger, taking on a heist for the mysterious Big Man.

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Episode 1: (Aug/09/2014)
DCI Jack Cloth's brother, Terry, has been killed. The pair weren't close, in fact, they were estranged, but, you know, it still hurts.

Episode 2: (Aug/10/2014)
As the body count continues to rise, Cloth closes in on the killer. But there's a horrific realisation that the culprit is far too close to him for comfort.

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