Kingdom (British TV series)

Kingdom
Genre	Comedy drama
Created by	Simon Wheeler Alan Whiting (co-creator)
Starring	Stephen Fry Hermione Norris Celia Imrie Karl Davies Tony Slattery Phyllida Law John Thomson Dominic Mafham
Composer	Mark Russell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	18 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Simon Wheeler Stephen Fry Alan Moloney Gina Carter
Producer	Georgina Lowe
Running time	46 minutes
Production companies	Parallel Film and Television Sprout Productions Ingenious Broadcasting
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	22 April 2007 (2007-04-22) – 12 July 2009 (2009-07-12)
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Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance. The series also starred Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Karl Davies, Phyllida Law and Tony Slattery.

The first series of six one-hour episodes was aired in 2007 and averaged six million viewers per week. Despite a mid-series ratings dip, the executive chairman of ITV praised the programme and ordered a second series, which was filmed in 2007 and broadcast in January and February 2008. Filming on the third series ran from July to September 2008 for broadcast from 7 June 2009.

Stephen Fry announced in October 2009 that ITV was cancelling the series, a fact later confirmed by the channel, which said that given tighter budgets, more expensive productions were being cut.^[1]