Jericho

2016

Jericho

6.8 | en | Drama

In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP8 Episode 8

Feb. 25,2016

In the aftermath of the trial, ANNIE and JOHNNY’s relationship is out in the open and they’re finally able to enjoy the intimacy of their union. With COATES on his way out of town, it seems that nothing can now disturb the peace and closeness between them. Except that COATES is determined that his time in Jericho is not yet done. The new quarry is a huge success for Jericho. Blasting through the rock, the men discover a cavern of sandstone that will change the fortunes of the viaduct. The only problem is that Jericho’s navvies won’t go near it: superstitions abound that the mine is on cursed land, the land where the bodies of HAPPY JACK, SKINNY and RED were buried.

EP7 Episode 7

Feb. 18,2016

Johnny is the number one suspect following the murder of Red Killeen. Charles has washed his hands with his brother and Coates takes it upon himself to lock Johnny up pending the judgement of the law. Annie makes a desperate plea with Charles to have him released but he is still furious about having found out that Johnny and Isabella slept together.

EP6 Episode 6

Feb. 11,2016

Charles needs a surveyor to discover the most affordable location to quarry stone for the viaduct. Annie and Johnny learn that the quarry site is where the bodies of Happy Jack and Skinny are buried and they become worried. Everything they thought was dead and buried could now destroy everything that they have fought for.

EP5 Episode 5

Feb. 04,2016

Charles and Isabella feel the pressure with no hope of outside investment and with their horns still locked with Johnny, money for the viaduct is running out and wages have to be paid. After Charles announces that wages will be delayed, the navvy workforce is up in furious and calls a strike.

EP4 Episode 4

Jan. 28,2016

News of Johnny's true identity spreads throughout the town, leaving him isolated.

EP3 Episode 3

Jan. 21,2016

Annie's world is rocked when Martha falls seriously ill with fever.

EP2 Episode 2

Jan. 14,2016

Annie opens the door for Bamford the railway detective, who has returned to Jericho.

EP1 Episode 1

Jan. 07,2016

Annie Quaintain sets off with her children for a new life in Jericho and ends up setting up a boarding house for the labourers. But she is not the only new arrival in town. Handsome navvy Johnny is returning to his native Yorkshire from Africa - only to make violent enemies with a hot-tempered colleague.

6.8 | en | Drama , Western | More Info

Released: 2016-01-07 | Released Producted By: ITV Studios , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: https://itvstudios.com/programmes/jericho

Synopsis

In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.

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Cast

Jessica Raine , Hans Matheson , Clarke Peters

Director

Kate Bartlett

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Jessica Raine

as Annie Quaintain

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Hans Matheson

as Johnny Jackson

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Clarke Peters

as Ralph Coates

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Reviews

Sam Dixon I like Clarke Peters, he is a very good actor and I love watching him but I am really struggling with the concept of an African American in 1870's Yorkshire casually taking charge of building a viaduct. We are talking Victorian Britain here and no one has batted an eye lid. While this is exactly how it should be this is not how it was in Victorian Britain, there is no way this would have happened. How are they supposed to convey the reality of the day when the role players are a fantasy of what the world should be like. This is as bad as Kevin Costner's Robin Hood, the days walk to Nottingham from Dover and suddenly ending up at Hadrians Wall. I was expecting something much grittier and realistic. I've really tried to watch this but I can't go on.

maureenbennett I couldn't get past the ridiculous outfits and makeup. In this shanty town full of filth, ruffians, chamber pots, and no baths, the immaculate heroine and her children stepped straight out of a Downton drawing room. The mother's big braids and sleek curls never fell out of place, even after a harrowing journey, or when there was a big explosion. The other women, all predictable soap characters, were equally overdressed. The scene of the women washing clothes in the stream (whilst wearing voluminous dresses, frothy curls, and not getting wet), may be typical in India, but not in freezing Yorkshire, (where the expression 'don't wash your dirty linen in public' originates). In those remote impoverished villages all the women had to work, and they wore thin straight dresses covered by coarse aprons, clogs, and shawls, with their hair tied back in buns. Should any man dare to wear a silky red shirt with puffy sleeves he would be laughed out of town. As for cowboys in Yorkshire ....! and no Yorkshire accents ....! To irritate further, the heroine suddenly acquired fine china and linen (imagine how the other women would have rightly laughed at such pretension). As I got more and more annoyed by the costumes, the makeup, the set, and the two-dimensional characters, I could not concentrate on the thin storyline, though I doubt if there was anything I could not have predicted.

brianjohn-83250 I really enjoyed episode one. OK -- there are anachronisms, and everything should be grubbier, and there should be lots of Irish navvies about the place, but this is a very refreshing drama which knocks spots off the BBC's "War and Peace" and "Poldark" -- both of which are so dumbed-down and banal as to be rather embarrassing. The characters here are credible, and already one cares for what will happen to them. The direction is smart and effective, and I think Steve Thompson's script is good, even though one might complain about a lack of regional authenticity. There is some beautiful imagery, and sound quality is great (compared with "War and Peace" in which everybody mumbles, and in which there never seems to be a microphone anywhere near the action). So what if it's a Western, set in Yorkshire? Nice idea. Promising -- I think this will get a really good devoted following.

jpdhadfield i was looking forward to 'jericho' as i'm interested in railways history and like dramas. well i should have known, the usual made up history ,parallel universe. ill number my complaints1. not a single Irish man building the railway,2, a black man in charge, in the 1880ish, 3 nobody even looks at the black man, a very rare thing in Britain in the 1880's .4.unrealistic concerns for dead or injured workers5. it felt just like a western cowboy film, just set in Yorkshire.6pah