A Touch of Cloth
| A Touch of Cloth | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Satire Police procedural |
| Created by | Charlie Brooker Boris Starling |
| Written by | Charlie Brooker Daniel Maier Ben Caudell Jason Hazeley Joel Morris |
| Directed by | Jim O'Hanlon |
| Starring | John Hannah Suranne Jones Julian Rhind-Tutt Navin Chowdhry Adrian Bower Daisy Beaumont |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company | Zeppotron |
| Original release | |
| Network | Sky1 |
| Release | 26 August 2012 – 10 August 2014 |
A Touch of Cloth is a British television comedy series created and written by Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier, shown on Sky One. A parody of British police procedural dramas, it stars John Hannah as Jack Cloth, a police detective with personal problems, and Suranne Jones as Anne Oldman, his colleague. The title is a play on the title of the detective series A Touch of Frost and the British expression "touching cloth," a euphemism for a desperate need to defecate. The DVD of the first series was released in the UK on 3 September 2012, and the second and third series were released on 1 September 2014.