Guilt
- TV comedy drama
- BBC Scotland
- 2019 - 2023
- 12 episodes (3 series)
Comedy drama starring Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives as two men who commit a hit and run murder. Also features Ruth Bradley, Sian Brooke, Emun Elliott, Michael Nardone, Ellie Haddington and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 2
Further details
With suspicions surrounding Walter's death growing, Max desperately needs to regain some control over the situation and starts by trying his best to derail Kenny, the private detective he engaged to assuage Angie's suspicions.
Kenny is a drunken no-hoper whose wife has left him, but this intriguing case has given him the purpose and drive he needs to get back on track and win his wife back - much to Max's horror.
Max's next port of call is Walter's all-knowing neighbour Sheila, who witnessed the brothers' deathly deed. She tells Max their secret is safe but her silence comes at a price.
As Max struggles to lay his hands on Sheila's hush money, the cracks in his marriage to increasingly-suspicious wife, Claire, start to show.
She's suspicious of him but is also guilty of her own deception, as she tentatively embarks on an affair with a woman from her gym, Tina. Not that Max would notice, he's too preoccupied with trying to put out fires.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 31st October 2019
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Scotland
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
Mark Bonnar | Max McCall |
Jamie Sives | Jake McCall |
Ruth Bradley | Angie Curtis |
Sian Brooke | Claire McCall |
Emun Elliott | Kenny Burns |
Michael Nardone | Henry McKinnon |
Ellie Haddington | Sheila Gemmell |
Moyo Akande | Tina Hicks |
Henry Pettigrew | Stevie Malone |
Gregor Firth | Archie |
Noof McEwan | Cameron Lovat |
Gordon Brown | Maurice |
Joe Donnelly | Walter |
Tom Urie | Gordie Gemmell |
Tereza Duskova | Lena |
Kirsty Strain | Secretary |
Neil Forsyth | Writer |
Robert McKillop | Director |
Jules Hussey | Producer |
Neil Webster | Executive Producer |
Kirstie Macdonald | Executive Producer |
Gavin Smith | Executive Producer |
Gregor Sharp | Executive Producer |
Neil Forsyth | Executive Producer |
Wendy Griffin | Line Producer |
Colin Monie | Editor |
Tom Sayer | Production Designer |
Caroline Stewart | Casting Director |
Nanu Segal | Director of Photography |
Lesley Abernethy | Costume Designer |
Laura Hill | Make-up Designer |
Arthur Sharpe | Composer |
Anna Toffolo | Graphics |
Craig Wright | Graphics |
Graham Drover | 1st Assistant Director |
Press
Guilt, series one, episode two review
Eight months and many thousands of programme hours in, the new BBC Scotland channel has an appointment-to-view hit on its hands with the comedy drama Guilt.
Alison Rowat, The Herald, 1st November 2019The humour gets bleaker as the plot thickens in this tale of two brothers trying to cover up their guilt after a hit-and-run. Max (Mark Bonnar) pays the dead man's neighbour a visit. Meanwhile, Jake (Jamie Sives) takes a shine to the victim's niece. This episode airs on BBC Two next Wednesday.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 31st October 2019Guilt review
Plenty of guilty pleasures from darkest Scotland.
Joe Clay, The Times, 31st October 2019