Collision (2009– )The story of a major road accident and a group of people who have never met, but who all share one single defining moment that will change their lives. Writer:Anthony Horowitz (creator) |
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Collision (2009– )The story of a major road accident and a group of people who have never met, but who all share one single defining moment that will change their lives. Writer:Anthony Horowitz (creator) |
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| Douglas Henshall | ... |
D.I. John Tolin
(5 episodes, 2009)
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Dean Lennox Kelly | ... |
Danny Rampton
(5 episodes, 2009)
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| Lucy Griffiths | ... |
Jane Tarrant
(5 episodes, 2009)
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| Philip Davis | ... |
Brian Edwards
(5 episodes, 2009)
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| Sylvia Syms | ... |
Joyce Thompson
(5 episodes, 2009)
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| Paul McGann | ... |
Richard Reeves
(5 episodes, 2009)
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| Matt Ryan | ... |
Dave Brown
(5 episodes, 2009)
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| Kate Ashfield | ... |
Ann Stallwood
(4 episodes, 2009)
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| David Bamber | ... |
Sidney Norris
(4 episodes, 2009)
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| Jo Woodcock | ... |
Jodie Tolin
(4 episodes, 2009)
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| Claire Rushbrook | ... |
Karen Donnelly
(4 episodes, 2009)
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| Christopher Villiers | ... |
Keith Fowler
(4 episodes, 2009)
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Jocelyn Jee Esien | ... |
Cindie Smith
(4 episodes, 2009)
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| Christopher Fulford | ... |
D.C.I. Stephen Maitland
(4 episodes, 2009)
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Jan Francis | ... |
Christine Edwards
(4 episodes, 2009)
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| Andrew Brooke | ... |
P.C. Alan Clacy
(4 episodes, 2009)
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Sushil Chudasama | ... |
P.C. Sanjay Gopal
(4 episodes, 2009)
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| Craig Kelly | ... |
Jeffrey Rampton
(3 episodes, 2009)
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Richard Harrington | ... |
James Taylor
(3 episodes, 2009)
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| Colin McFarlane | ... |
Bill Jackson
(3 episodes, 2009)
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Anwar Lynch | ... |
Gareth Clay
(3 episodes, 2009)
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| Lenora Crichlow | ... |
Alice Jackson
(3 episodes, 2009)
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| Frank Harper | ... |
Derek
(3 episodes, 2009)
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| Cornelius Macarthy | ... |
Tsegga
(3 episodes, 2009)
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| Zoe Telford | ... |
Sandra Rampton
(3 episodes, 2009)
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| Nicholas Farrell | ... |
Guy Pearson
(3 episodes, 2009)
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Brian Pettifer | ... |
Ed Wilson
(3 episodes, 2009)
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Shaun Prendergast | ... |
D.C.I. Mike Evans
(3 episodes, 2009)
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| Victoria Wicks | ... |
Angela Reeves
(3 episodes, 2009)
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Raymond Sawyer | ... |
Paul (Chauffeur)
(3 episodes, 2009)
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Nicholas Moss | ... |
Jake
(3 episodes, 2009)
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The story of a major road accident and a group of people who have never met, but who all share one single defining moment that will change their lives.
While we understand that what we watched was probably one of the numerous truncated versions, we were probably just spared a more lengthy period of boredom because of that fact.
Horowitz is a very good writer but the problem begins when the story has to be directed by someone else, in this case, a mediocre, at best, Marc Evans .........mostly a documentary director and way over his head in this.
There are not too many writers, and even fewer directors, who can effectively and engrossingly pull off multiple story lines and pull them all together into a coherent and interesting story and display their relationship to each other of the story lines .........Horowitz may be one of those, Evans will never be.
There in lies the problem for this slow, ponderous, sleep-inducing effort ..........way too much back story, way too much set-up, way too many relationships, way to many secrets to collate, and a bizarre science fiction ending out of nowhere .........not the usual for Horowitz and way too much to blend into a coherent story by anyone other than maybe Guy Ritchie .........and sadly, Evans is certainly no Guy Ritchie.
Due to all this strange conglomeration, it is difficult to say exactly what kind of a story this is ........too bad ........all the ingredients but no recipe.