Stan Lee's Lucky Man

Stan Lee's Lucky Man
series titles over an aerial picture of London
Genre Crime drama
Created by
Starring
Opening theme Lucky Man by Corinne Bailey Rae
Composer(s) Nick Green
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 2
No. of episodes 20
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Richard Fell
  • Gareth Neame
  • Anne Mensah
  • Beverley Booker[1]
Producer(s)
Running time 44 minutes
Production company(s)
Distributor NBCUniversal International Television[1]
Release
Original network Sky 1
Original release 22 January 2016 (2016-01-22) – present

Stan Lee's Lucky Man is a television drama produced by Carnival Films and POW! Entertainment for Sky 1[3] about a police officer (played by James Nesbitt) who is granted the power to control luck. The show was executive produced by Richard Fell & Gareth Neame with Stan Lee & Gill Champion as co-executive producers. Neil Biswas, who was the lead writer of the first season, also co-executive produced and was the co-creator of the show. [4]

Lucky Man debuted on Friday, 22 January 2016.[5] The first series of Lucky Man averaged 1.49 million viewers per episode and was Sky 1's most successful original drama. The show has been renewed for a second series to air in 2017 and began filming in June 2016.[6]

Synopsis

Harry Clayton is a flawed London homicide detective. His gambling addiction has cost him his wife and daughter, and indebted him for thousands of pounds to a casino owner. A mysterious woman gives Clayton an ancient bracelet that brings him an immense amount of luck.[3]

Cast

Production

The concept began as Stan Lee's answer to fans' questions about what super power he would like to have, luck. After starting up POW!, they considered making a TV series based on luck super power. Neil Biswas then took Lee's original idea and wrote the pilot - developing the central character and the world around him. With the help of his writing team, Biswas developed the mythology for the whole series : Stan Lee's original idea of a lucky charm that is given to a compulsive gambler - became an ancient bracelet that Harry Clayton wakes up with on his wrist, after a night spent with the mysterious Eve. [5]

Lucky Man debuted on Friday, 22 January 2016.[5] The first series of Lucky Man averaged 1.49 million viewers per episode and was Sky 1's most successful original drama. The show has been renewed for a second series to air in 2017.[6]

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
series		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions) [9]
11"More Yang Than Yin"Andy De EmmonyNeil Biswas22 January 2016 (2016-01-22)1.93
22"Win Some, Lose Some"Andy De EmmonyBen Schiffer29 January 2016 (2016-01-29)1.54
33"Evil Eye"David CaffreyBen Schiffer & Neil Biswas5 February 2016 (2016-02-05)1.30
44"A Higher Power"David CaffreyNeil Biswas12 February 2016 (2016-02-12)1.49
55"The Last Chance"Brian KellyRachel Anthony19 February 2016 (2016-02-19)1.48
66"A Twist of Fate"Brian KellyJames Allen, Alan Westaway & Neil Biswas26 February 2016 (2016-02-26)1.38
A mutilated corpse found in the wreckage of a demolition site leads Harry and Suri to discover that the young man, Luke Bangura, who disappeared some hours earlier, was the victim of an illegal organ trade. Harry suspects that Deputy Mayor Frierson, his former commanding officer, could be involved in the operation, having mysteriously received an organ from a donor despite being part of a rare blood group, which affects only one in 4,000 people. When Eve discovers Harry's connection to Frierson, he asks him to look at the murder of her mother, Maria - the last case which Frierson investigated, which remains unsolved. Meanwhile, Suri puts herself in grave danger to secure a result.
77"The Charm Offensive"Jon EastStephen Gallagher4 March 2016 (2016-03-04)1.33
A kidnap victim is accidentally murdered when the police taser him, unaware he is covered in petrol. Whilst in hospital, the victim whispers 'Golding' as his final word to Harry moments before he dies. As Harry and Suri begin to dig into the victim's private life, they uncover a scam in which he and his business partner were conning foreign students into false relationships in order to steal their credit cards. When one of the victims of the scam is kidnapped at gunpoint, Harry realises it is a race against time to save her - and to stop his prime suspect from getting away. Meanwhile, Winter refuses to sack Harry, as evidence of Frierson's corruption continues to grow.
88"My Brother's Keeper"Jon EastBen Schiffer11 March 2016 (2016-03-11)1.46
When Rich is implicated in the murder of his girlfriend, Babs, Harry realises that Golding has set him up and sets out to prove it. With Suri now convinced that Harry is acting on the wrong side of the law, she presents Winter with the CCTV of Harry winning a double maximum bet at Freddy Lau's casino on the night of his murder. After discovering an additional set of prints at scene of Babs' murder, Harry suspects that Golding is in fact Charles Collins, a former MI6 officer currently working for the government. But as he sets out to confront Collins, Eve is kidnapped, and Winter is authorised a warrant to search Harry's flat - where Suri finds a severed head in the freezer.
99"The House Always Wins"David CaffreyRachel Anthony18 March 2016 (2016-03-18)1.41
1010"Leap of Faith"David CaffreyNeil Biswas25 March 2016 (2016-03-25)1.47

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Barraclough, Leo (31 March 2015). "Stan Lee Teams with 'Downton Abbey' Producer Carnival on 'Lucky Man'". Variety. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Ferguson, Euan (24 January 2016). "The week in TV: Stan Lee's Lucky Man; The Jihadis Next Door; The Comic Strip Presents… Red Top; Jericho". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  3. 1 2 Plunkett, John (March 30, 2015). "Stan Lee creates superhero for Sky1 series starring James Nesbitt". The Guardian. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4800878/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
  5. 1 2 3 Jeffery, Morgan (22 January 2016). "Marvel legend Stan Lee has devised a superhero story for 2016 in Sky1's Lucky Man". Digital Spy. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  6. 1 2 Mulhall, Al (24 March 2016). "Stan Lee's Lucky Man will return to Sky 1 for a second series with James Nesbitt to air in 2017". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Tartaglione, Nancy (31 March 2015). "Stan Lee, 'Downton Abbey' Producer Team On Superhero Drama 'Lucky Man' For Sky1". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jeffery, Morgan (18 January 2016). "Get a first look at the moody artwork for Stan Lee's marvellous new Sky1 series Lucky Man". Digital Spy. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  9. ↑ "Weekly top 30 programmes". BARB.

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