Babylon

Babylon is a British comedy-drama television series co-created by Danny Boyle, Robert Jones, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain for Channel 4, and produced by Nightjack Ltd. The series is set in London, and follows various characters working for the Metropolitan Police Service, police officers on the streets, who are responding to incidents, as well as the top management and PR department at New Scotland Yard, who try to counter any backlash from such incidents. Plot The series follows the new Director of Communications, the American Liz Garvey (Brit Marling), who has been headhunted by the Police Commissioner Richard Miller (James Nesbitt) to drag the force into the new media age, and her conflicts with her own department and legal bureaucracy. This is intercut with the happenings within a team in the Territorial Support Group and a team of authorised firearms officers in the Specialist Firearms Command. Cast Brit Marling as Liz Garvey, Director of Communications James Nesbitt as Sir Richard Miller, Commissioner Bertie Carvel as Finn Kirkwood, Communications Deputy Ella Smith as Mia Conroy, Communications staff member Paterson Joseph as Charles Inglis, Assistant Commissioner, later Commissioner Jonny Sweet as Tom Oliver, Superintendent and Personal Aide to the Commissioner Nicola Walker as Sharon Franklin, Assistant Commissioner Jill Halfpenny as PC Davina Bancroft, TSG officer, married to SCO19 officer Banjo Cavan Clerkin as PC Damien "Clarkey" Clarke, TSG officer Owain Arthur as PC Paul "Nobbo" Norrington, TSG officer Adam Deacon as PC Robbie Vas, TSG officer who moves over to SCO19 Andrew Brooke as PC Neil "Banjo" Bancroft, SCO19 officer, married to TSG officer Davina Stuart Martin as PC Tony Forbes, SCO19 officer Nick Blood as PC Warwick Collister, SCO19 officer Daniel Kaluuya as Matt Coward, documentary film maker Ralph Brown as Grant Delgado, Deputy Mayor of London