Identity (TV series) should not be confused with Identity (game show).
| Genre: | Police procedural |
| Runtime: | 51 minutes (including adverts) |
| Creator: | Ed Whitmore |
| Starring: | Aidan Gillen Keeley Hawes Holly Aird Elyes Gabel and Shaun Parkes |
| Composer: | John Lunn |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Company: | ITV Studios |
| Network: | ITV |
| Producer: | Lachlan Mackinnon |
| Executive Producer: | Kate Bartlett Ed Whitmore |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 6 (Episode list) |
Identity is a British police procedural television series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, airing in the UK during July–August 2010. Concerning identity theft, the series was created and written by Ed Whitmore, a writer most noted for his work on the BBC's Waking The Dead and the ITV mini-series He Kills Coppers. It was cancelled on 19 October 2010, after a single series.[1]
In London, the Identity Unit led by Detective Superintendent Martha Lawson, the founder of the unit, specialises in cases concerning identity fraud by outsmarting, hunting down and unmasking the modern day Jekyll and Hydes.
Martha takes a risk in employing DI John Bloom, an SO-10 officer who has just spent 15 years undercover. He knows first hand what it’s like to pretend to be someone you are not. He’s also only too aware of how easy it is to lose your own identity when you’ve lived a lie for the previous 15 years as a Dublin money launderer and bagman for the Turkish mafia and the past will not go away.
Completing the team are Tessa Stein, IT expert in everything from trawling databases to cracking security codes, DS Anthony Wareing, who has his eye on promotion and a stance on cases that can err on the self-righteous, and DC José Rodriguez - cocky, self-assured, yet with a seriousness and sensitivity that gives him insight into cases.
As the series unfolds, DS Wareing becomes more and more concerned about Bloom’s methods and frustrated by what he sees as Martha’s blind and foolish indulgence of him.
Official ratings include the ITV HD simulcast audience