Gideon's Daughter

Gideon's Daughter
Written by	Stephen Poliakoff
Directed by	Stephen Poliakoff
Starring	Bill Nighy Miranda Richardson Emily Blunt Tom Hardy
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Peter Fincham Stephen Poliakoff David M. Thompson Kathryn Mitchell
Producers	Nicholas Brown Helen Flint
Production locations	Edinburgh, Scotland London, England
Cinematography	Barry Ackroyd
Editor	Clare Douglas
Running time	105 minutes
Production companies	BBC America BBC Fremantle Spotlight Films Talkback Thames
Original release
Network	BBC
Related
Friends and Crocodiles
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Gideon's Daughter is the second of two linked BBC television dramas written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff.

Produced independently for the BBC by Talkback Thames and starring Bill Nighy, Miranda Richardson, and Emily Blunt, it aired in the UK on BBC One on 26 February 2006 and in the US on BBC America a month later. It was shown across Australia on ABC1 on 2 November 2008. The first of the dramas, Friends and Crocodiles, had been broadcast the previous month, with the character of Sneath (Robert Lindsay) appearing in both and acting as the narrator of Gideon's Daughter. The mini series was watched by 10.2 million viewers.

Nighy and Blunt won Golden Globe Awards for their performances.^[1] The production won a Peabody Award in April 2007.^[2]