''Walter'' is a British television

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film, written by

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under the pseudonym Ruby Solomon, that first broadcast on

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on 8 August 2014. Intended as a "backdoor pilot" for a potential series, ''Walter'' stars Adrian Dunbar as the title character, a detective inspector assigned to investigate the unsolved cases of a former colleague who met his death after falling in front of a tube train. Assisted by an eager new recruit, Anne Hopkins (

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) and his dim-yet-trusty sidekick Mike Minorsky ( Kayvan Novak), Walter investigates whether his former colleague's death may have in fact been murder. Described as a "comedy drama", with comparisons to fellow

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stablemate '' New Tricks'', the film was met with a number of negative reviews, including the '' Herald Scotland'', whose writer described it as "the worst thing I've seen on TV this year." The film pulled in less than 3.34 million viewers, and was ranked outside the Top 30 programmes for that week.

Cast

* Adrian Dunbar as DI Walter Gambon *

as DC Anne Hopkins * Kayvan Novak as DS Mike Minorsky *

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as CS Charles Addison *

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as DS Geoffrey Pollard * Richie Campbell as DC Noel Kress * Sophie Stanton as DS Jennifer Simms * Chris Brailsford as DI Rod Romney * Danny Erskine as DC Lenny Rice *

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as Commander Angus Thomas

Production

The film was commissioned by then BBC director of television Danny Cohen, comedy commissioning controller Shane Allen and BBC One controller Charlotte Moore.

scripted the film under the pseudonym Ruby Solomon. He told ''

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'' that this was "to avoid any potential conflict of interest, because it was to be made by ITV Studios, and also partly because I'm naturally a bit mischievous". Lygo added that "he wrote it at weekends" and that it was "somewhere between '' New Tricks'' and '' Minder''". His daughter Madison also stars in the film.

References

External links

* *{{IMDb title, id=3948902, title=Walter 2014 television films 2014 films British television films 2010s English-language films