Prime Suspect
| Prime Suspect | |
|---|---|
Prime Suspect title | |
| Genre | Police procedural |
| Created by | Lynda La Plante |
| Starring | Helen Mirren |
| Composer | Stephen Warbeck |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 15 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Production companies | Granada Television/ITV Productions WGBH Boston |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 7 April 1991 – 22 October 2006 |
Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television series devised by Lynda La Plante. Broadcast on ITV between 1991 and 2006, it stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, who rises to the rank of Detective Superintendent while confronting institutionalised sexism within the police force.
For her role as Tennison, Mirren received three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994, two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, and in 2006, the British public ranked her number 29 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.