DI Ray is a British police procedural television series created and written by Maya Sondhi and produced by Jed Mercurio. The first of its four episodes aired on ITV on 2 May 2022.
| DI Ray | |
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| Genre | Police procedural |
| Created by | Maya Sondhi |
| Written by | Maya Sondhi |
| Directed by | Audrey Cooke, Alex Pillai
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| Theme music composer | Edmund Butt |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Maya Sondhi, Paul Ashton
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| Producer | Charlotte Surtees
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| Cinematography | Andrew McDonnell, Al Beech
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| Production companies | Creative England, HTM Productions
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DI Ray stars Parminder Nagra in the title role as a Detective Inspector in a fictitious Birmingham-based police force. The cast also includes Gemma Whelan and Jamie Bamber.[1]
The series was filmed during October and November 2021 in locations including Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and outside Lloyd House police station.[2]
Lucy Mangan, writing for The Guardian, gave the series three out of a possible five stars. She praised Sondhi's use of "tangled motivations that hold the viewers' interest" to create a "police procedural with a fresh perspective" but felt that the story "at times moves a bit too slowly" and "feels a bit too by-numbers".[3] Sean O'Grady for The Independent gave the series four stars out of five, describing the lead character as "a smart, sassy, tough telly detective" and summarising "low key in tone and atmosphere, DI Ray, cop and show, that is, deserves to be a success. Mercurio ticks another box."[4]
At the conclusion of the broadcasting of the final episode, it remained unclear whether or not DI Ray will return for a future series. Mercurio said: "We'd all be thrilled if we got the opportunity to do more."[5]