McCallum - Tote schweigen nicht

John Hannah was excellent & so are the rest of the cast. I love British shows. They are good clean shows with not a lot of vulgar language, etc. I definitely recommend watching this show. I only wish there were more seasons. Three seasons is not enough...

Thanks to the Shazam app, I was finally able to identify the gorgeous intro & closing music to McCallum. It's a song called Country Memories by Guy Fletcher & Rod Williams. I've spent hours trying to ID this instrumental & finally I found it.

What a shame this series was cancelled after just two short seasons. While the US seems to run good television series into the ground long after they should have been cancelled, the British seem to do the opposite. I really would have liked to see a third series at the very least.

The story lines were inventive, edgy and gripping. The acting excellent. The characters believable and I was always left looking forward to the next episodes.

From what I read on the net when my curiosity about why it was cancelled took me to Google, I'm not the only one who is disappointed by the cancellation after only nine episodes. But I've yet to find an answer to my question: Why was it cancelled?

The first couple of episodes were pretty good, but things went down hill from there. McCallum's personal life became the focus rather than being a background element. I wonder if they didn't change writers: the plots became implausible. The pacing was slow. They appear to have tried to stretch material that suited a one hr. show into 1.5 hrs. Midway through the second season we abandoned the show. My wife and I wouldn't recommend it. There is no way that this show deserves the high rating that it has on IMDB.

I love this series, my only complaint being the brevity of it. I would have liked to see more episodes with this fine ensemble cast, led by John Hannah. The opening credits with the beautiful aerial views of London are stunning. I was prompted to write this to correct what is misleading in the Trivia paragraph about this show. It most definitely is set in London and not my beloved Edinburgh.