TV series

The Tower

Name: The Tower
Released: 2021
Cast: Gemma Whelan, Tahirah Sharif, Jimmy Akingbola, Emmett J. Scanlan, Bobby Lockwood

2021–2024· 3 seasons· 46 min episodesTV-14★ 6.8Canceled

On ITV1 · BritBox — From Mammoth Screen · Windhover Films

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Synopsis

A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.

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E1 Episode 1Next upNov 8, 2021 · 47 min · ★ 6.7
Synopsis
DS Sarah Collins and her colleague, DC Steve Bradshaw, officers in the Directorate of Special Investigations (DSI), are called to an incident at Portland Tower in south east London. They find at the bottom of the tower the dead bodies of long-serving police officer, PC Hadley Matthews, and a 15-year-old Libyan refugee, Farah Mehenni.
Guest stars: Laurie Delaney (Mary Shaw), Zmira Wicking (Aliya Mehenni), Sally Scott (Carrie Stoddard), Rex Parry (Ben Stoddard), Joe Macaulay (Joe Macaulay), Robin Morrissey (Sgt Fred Thompson), Menyee Lai (Pathologist), Joanne James (Police Officer WPC)
E2 Episode 2Nov 9, 2021 · 46 min · ★ 6.0
Synopsis
With Lizzie still on the run, Sarah finally persuades her boss, DCI Tim Bailie, to go public about Lizzie's disappearance. Later, she makes a series of discoveries about the events that led up to the Portland Tower fall which further complicate the case.
Guest stars: Rex Parry (Ben Stoddard), Robin Morrissey (Sgt Fred Thompson), Jim English (DC Jez Vine), Camilla Beeput (Julie Woodson), Shak Benjamin (Joe Macey), Adrianna Pawlowska (Cosmina Baicu), Alex Skarbek (Laszlo Kovacs), Kent Riley (DS Jack O'Neill)
E3 Episode 3Nov 10, 2021 · 47 min · ★ 7.1
Synopsis
Lizzie decides to turn herself in, but first she meets Kieran Shaw in secret, who tries to persuade her not to implicate herself. When Sarah finally interviews Lizzie, the explosive truth about what really happened on top of the tower emerges
Guest stars: Laurie Delaney (Mary Shaw), Rex Parry (Ben Stoddard), Robin Morrissey (Sgt Fred Thompson), Menyee Lai (Pathologist), Roanna Walker (PC Jenny Dunne), Jim English (DC Jez Vine), Vic Waghorn (DC (uncredited))