Prime Suspect
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‘Prime Suspect: Tennison’: 5 Things to Know About the PBS Prequel
PBS's 'Prime Suspect: Tennison' is a prequel to the classic Helen Mirren drama.
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Happy 25th Anniversary, 'Prime Suspect'!
While Detectives Briscoe and Logan maintained Law & Order, Kelly and Sipowicz — followed by Sipowicz and Simone — put the blue in NYPD Blue, and Homicide’s Frank Pembleton gave us an up-close look at life on the street. Twenty-five years ago this month, London’s own DCI Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) caught her first Prime Suspect, when the two-part procedural premiered on ITV in England. Shown over two nights — Apr. 7 and 8, 1991 — Prime Suspect earned instant acclaim and high ratings for its c
