Filming Locations, Air Date and Cast of Black Work: ITV three-part drama series starring Sheridan Smith as Jo Gillespie and Matthew McNulty as DCI Jack Clark.
Where was Black Work filmed?
Starting in October 2014, filming for ITV’s Black Work took place at multiple locations in the North English counties of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, including the city of Leeds. Having grown up in Lincolnshire, filming served as something of a homecoming for star Sheridan Smith. With the story also being set in the North of England, playing the part of Jo allowed the 33-year-old actress to use her own natural accent.
Black Work ITV Cast List
Character Name – Actor/Actress
Jo Gillespie – Sheridan Smith (Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Mrs Biggs, Cilla, The C Word, Love Soup, Eyes Down, Grownups, Jonathan Creek, Gavin & Stacey, Benidorm, Quartet, Hysteria, Tower Block, The 7.39)
DCI Jack Clark – Matthew McNulty (Jamaica Inn, The Mill, The Paradise, Misfits, The Musketeers season 3, Our Girl, The Syndicate, Room at the Top, Five Days, Single-Handed, Lark Rise to Candleford, Unforgiven, Cranford, Honest, The Great War: The People’s Story, The Mark of Cain, Looking for Eric, Little Ashes, Spike Island, Control)
Ryan Gillespie – Kenny Doughty (Vera, Stella, Funland, Wire in the Blood, The Second Coming, Servants, Coronation Street, The Aryan Couple, Titus)
Melly – Honor Kneafsey (Our Zoo, Abducted)
Hal – Oliver Woolford (Utopia, Eve, Blackout, DCI Banks)
Detective Chief Superintendent Will Hepburn – Douglas Henshall (Shetland, Primeval, Outlander, The Secret of Crickley Hall, The Silence, South Riding, Collision, The Silence, Sea of Souls, Anna Karenina, Psychos, Lipstick on Your Collar, Twice Upon a Yesterday, The Salvation, The Eagle)
Chief Constable Carolyn Jarecki – Geraldine James (Utopia, 13 Steps Down, The Time of Your Life, The Last Enemy, Band of Gold, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Jane Hall, He Knew He Was Right, Hex, The Sins, Seesaw, Little Britain, Sherlock Holmes)
Tom Piper – Phil Davis (Poldark, Whitechapel, Silk, Being Human, Case Histories, Desperate Romantics, Collision, Rose and Maloney, Bleak House, Births, Marriages and Deaths, North Square)
Barbara Gillespie – Sharon Duce (Conviction, London’s Burning, Coronation Street, The Tomorrow People)
DC Jared Ansell – Andrew Gower (The Village, Being Human, Monroe, A.D. The Bible Continues, Rosewater)
DS Lee Miekel – Andrew Knott (The Driver, Spooks: Code 9, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Gavin & Stacey, The History Boys, Spike Island)
DCI Jahan Kapoor – Ace Bhatti (Eastenders, Grease Monkeys, Lewis, From There to Here, The Shadow Line, The Sarah Jane Adventures, New Street Law, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Cardiac Arrest, Holding On)
PC Vicki Stanton – Carla Henry (Frankie, Homefront, Queer as Folk, Blue Murder, The Vice)
Carla – Lisa Dillon (The Jury, Cranford, Hawking)
Zoe Nash – Vinette Robinson (Sherlock, Hope Springs, Waterloo Road, Imagine Me & You)
Michael Parry – Ben-Ryan Davies (Waterloo Road, From There to Here, Harriet’s Army, Jinx, Rough Diamond)
Jocelyn Hepburn – Tara Moran (New Street Law, Coronation Street, Casualty, Touching Evil, A Touch of Frost)
Steve Glover – James Foster (Ideal, Ordinary Lies)
Moira – Ruth Evans
When does Black Work start on ITV?
The shows start date and time has now finally been officially released, with episode 1 airing on Sunday 21 June 2015 at 9:00pm on ITV.
If you’ve somehow managed to miss the trailer for Black Work, which would take some doing considering how frequently it’s been shown on ITV over the last few weeks, here’s another chance to see a preview of this three-part drama. Seriously though, regular ITV viewers can probably recite this advert word for word by now:
