Ultraviolet – The series, not the awful US movie
Anyone who says Britain can’t make decent genre television really needs to remove their chin from the cesspit of generic US imports. Britain has and still does make wonderful genre shows. The only difference is money. Today I’m going to talk about one such show that sadly was a victim of merciless budget cuts; ’Ultraviolet’.
Created and written by Joe Ahearne, ‘Ultraviolet'paved the way for modern genre shows to be taken seriously. At its core the show was essentially a gritty and hard edged police drama that just happened to have vampires as the protagonists. The most telling characteristic of this drama was that it never actually referred to the vampires as vampires. Jack Davenport played the lead character Michael Colefield as a normal police detective who accidentally gets drawn into the ‘CIB'unit after his best friend is turned into a ‘Code V’.
Ultraviolet had it all; from unrequited love between two main characters all the way along to a sinister political plot on the part of the ‘Code Vs’. Far more ‘real'then it had any right to be, the show was received warmly by the critics but never picked up enough of an audience on its initial run to convince Channel 4 executives to renew the series. Email marketing and word of mouth spread quickly though and even today there are mass calls for a return to the world of ‘Ultraviolet’. Joe Ahearne himself stated that he would have loved to return for another series, but as time ticks on, it seems ever more unlikely that we will see those characters again.
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