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'''Hustle''' is a British television comedy-drama series made by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom.
Created by Tony Jordan (who also wrote many of the scripts), ''Hustle'' follows a group of London-based con artists as they attempt to dupe money out of their victims ("marks"). Despite their chosen trade, they adhere to codes such as "bad behaviour breeds bad luck". In particular they adhere to the first rule of the con "you can't cheat an honest man" because an honest man doesn't want something for nothing.
The series frequently breaks the fourth wall (usually at least once per episode) and uses cutaway scenes shot in a different style from the rest of the show. For example, in several episodes the characters appear to "stop time", interacting with other characters that are frozen in place, discussing the con either with each other, or even with the audience. The technique is used as a metaphor for how the main characters manipulate their environment at will, as opposed to normal people who have no clue of what is going on. Examples of this can be seen in the pilot episode, "Gold Mine", the first episode of the second series and "Signing up to Wealth", the second episode of the fourth series. Other fourth wall-breaking moments are more subtle - a character smiles at the camera as the con begins to take shape, or makes an editorial comment to the viewers. Some episodes insert fantasy sequences - scenes shot like a Bollywood musical or a silent movie, for example.
Each episode also amounts to a confidence game played upon the viewers through the use of misdirection and hidden plot details that are revealed at the end of the story. Not all cons depicted are successful, and some episodes focus on the characters dealing with the consequences of their actions.
In addition to one long con, each episode features a number of short cons played by the major characters on members of the public. The short cons demonstrate the seemingly endless array of tricks professional con men possess and the ease with which short cons can be played.
The first six-episode series was originally broadcast in February and March 2004, and a second six-episode series began on 29 March 2005 and ran until May 2005. The third series began on 10 March 2006 (and began on 14 April 2006 on BBC One Scotland).The fourth series began in Britain on Thursday May 3rd at 9:00pm[1] and in the U.S. 18 April, 2007[2].
In October 2005, it was announced that the BBC had sold United States screening rights for the first two seasons to cable television station AMC, who joined as a production partner for the third run. The series is also screened in Spain and Portugal through the People+Arts channel, partially owned by BBC and the first two seasons aired back-to-back on CBC in Canada during the summer of 2006. The third season premiered on CBC on February 13, 2007. Season 4 marked a departure from the usual airing of the series. Typically, the BBC would air the episode in the UK and then 6 to 9 months later they would air in the US on AMC. However, due to the additional funding that AMC provided for the production, Series 4 debuted in the US prior to airing in the UK.
The series got its own spin-off documentary, ''The Real Hustle'', in which Paul Wilson, Jessica-Jane Clement and Alexis Conran travel the country demonstrating cons to real people with the aid of hidden cameras. It is aired regularly on BBC Three.
★ 'Michael Stone' played by Adrian Lester (Appears In Series 1-3) Michael "Mickey Bricks" Stone is the group’s leader and ‘inside man’. An ambitious, intelligent and driven conman, Stone watched his father struggle to make an honest living for many years before he died just prior to the retirement he had looked forward to his whole life. Mickey understandably hates the system that he feels killed his father, and is determined to make sure he never struggles in the same way. A highly respected long-con expert, it is rumoured that he and Stacey "had a thing once”. Early on in the show, Mickey’s wife divorces him because of his dishonest lifestyle; this plot point helps to illustrate why the life of a grifter isn’t as much fun as it may seem – it can undermine a person’s ability to ever lead a normal life. (This is a theme that reappears throughout the show). Mickey left the team at the end of Season Three, to head up a long con in Sydney, Australia, one that only the great Mickey Bricks could pull off: selling the Sydney opera house.
★ 'Danny Blue' played by Marc Warren - Lacking a particular role within the group, Danny Blue is initially described as a ‘floater’ (a term he abhors). Already a seasoned short-con operator, Danny brashly forces his way into the gang at first, but after proving his loyalty is allowed to stay on and learn from Mickey, who is the “only man in London who can teach him anything”. He challenges Mickey’s authority constantly (as illustrated most explicitly by the ‘Henderson challenge’ episode) and finally gets a chance to lead his own crew when Mickey leaves for Sydney. Cocky and arrogant yet still vulnerable and somehow endearing, Danny is berated by Mickey for his lack of attention to detail when working the con, yet Albert maintains Danny has “…grift sense, and that’s something you can’t teach”. It is this instinct that will pull him through when things go wrong for the group, and Mickey is no longer around to ensure there’s a Plan B.
★ 'Stacie Monroe' played by Jaime Murray - Stacie uses her sex appeal to manipulate potential marks, both while working the long con and in more small-time cons (such as those used to raise funds for the team). She often poses as an employee of an institution (such as a museum) or an expert in a particular field (such as art), and casually mentions potential 'money-making schemes' (which are in reality cons) to provoke the mark's interest in the matter. It is implied that in the past she has had romantic involvement with Micky.
★ 'Ash Morgan' played by Robert Glenister - Ash ‘Three Socks’ Morgan is the team’s fixer, who earned his nickname after his first trip to the showers while in prison. Ash can turn his hand to any job, and is seen at various points acquiring vast amounts of foreign currency, rigging a sophisticated alarm system and pretending to be an oil consultant. When Ash first appears on the show, he is working his favourite con; after deliberately stepping in front of a moving car, Ash passes off an old skull fracture as a fresh injury, in order to make an insurance claim.
★ 'Albert Stroller' played by Robert Vaughn is the team’s Roper. His job is to find the perfect mark; someone who is rich, greedy and has a weakness the team can exploit – and to hook them into the scheme, sometimes with the use of a ‘convincer’ (allowing the mark to make a profit initially, to win his trust for the next, much bigger investment; of which he or she will not see a penny!) Once a shoe salesman in the American Midwest, Albert is an old-style grifter, a gentleman, and a grandfather figure and mentor to the group.
★ 'Billy Bond' played by Ashley Walters (Appears In Series 4 only)
★ 'Eddie' (played by Rob Jarvis) is the owner (and barman) of ''Eddie's Bar'' where the group often plan cons, he is fully aware of the group and their dealings, and usually (but not always) adopts a "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" attitude. Often a victim of the petty grifts played on him by the crew, Eddie has recently taken an active role as a bit player in one of their cons, and generally appears to be rather fond of them despite their minor schemes.
★ 'Neil Cooper' (played by Tom Mannion) is another con artist who helps Mickey in Season 1, Episode 1. He acts as a police officer named DePalmer who heads the investigation into the crew.
★ 'Tip Jones' (played by Brian Pettifer) is a forger of classical art. Albert says that Tip is the best forger in the business but is very untrustworthy. When he is first seen it is said that an operation went wrong and he has thus suffered from brain damage. However, this is all a ruse by Tip to fool the Fraud Squad so that he doesn't have to stand trial. Once Albert mentions how much money they intend to con Meredith Gates out of then he soon comes out of his "brain damaged" state. Tip forges an original Mondrian which the crew sell to the collector Meredith Gates. However, Tip betrays the crew and attempts to take the crew's money.
★ 'Samuel Richards' (played by Richard Harrington) is a thief, who wants to steal the diamond that Moore's Bank stole from his father. The crew help him because Victor Maher (the Head of Security at the Bank) forces them to catch Richards but they con Maher as well. Mickey forms a bond with Richards because he feels that their fathers were similar people.
★ 'Adam Rice' (played by Paul Nicholls) is a thief regarded by the police as "The Ghost" due to his ability to just disappear from the crime scene or elude people trying to follow him. He is the kind of person who is used to being followed and so every so often he pulls a vanishing trick just to be on the safe side. He is a keen parachutist and this hobby has come in handy in his line of work when he has needed to get over electric fences and the like. He only works with people he has hand-picked and doesn't like being approached for jobs. He turns Mickey and Danny down when they try and get him to recruit them for his next job. They try and convince him that whatever he is going to steal they will make copies of it and then sell them on as the original thus increasing the take (just like they did with the Star of Africa). He then he shows up in their flat willing to recruit them (well Ashley Morgan really as he needed Ash to shut down the security systems) while Mickey, Danny, and himself steal an original Hans Christian Andersen manuscript.
★ James Laurenson as Peter Williams
★ Robert Pugh as Frank Gorley
★ Liz May Brice as DS Terri Hodges
★ Orla Brady as Meredith Gates
★ David Calder as Victor Maher
★ Tamzin Outhwaite as Katherine Winterborn
★ Ben Miles as Steven Winterborn
★ Branka Katic as Olenka
★ David Haig as Anthony Reeves
★ Charlie Creed Miles as Howard Jennings
★ Ronald Pickup as Harry Holmes
★ Stanley Townsend as Johnny Keyes
★ Rebecca Lacey as Juliette Keyes
★ Lee Ingleby as Trevor
★ Fay Ripley as Phillips
★ Kieran Bew as Neil Davis
★ Max Beesley as Jake
★ Vincent Regan as DCI Wells
★ Robert Llewellyn as MC
★ Mel Smith as Benny Frazier
★ Sara Cox as Herself
★ Linford Christie as Himself
★ Richard Chamberlain as James Whittaker "JW3" Wright III
★ Silas Carson as Kulvinder Samar
★ Renu Setna as Harold
★ Kenneth Cranham as Frances Owen
★ Paul Kaye as Tim Millen
★ Martin Townsend as Himself
★ Paul Nicholls as Adam Rice
★ Robert Wagner as Anthony Westley
★ Will Yun Lee as Shiro
★ Charlotte Nguyen as Keiko
★ Chris Tardio as Johnny Maranzano
★ William Lucking as Harry Doyle
★ Barry Shabaka Henley as Thomas Jackson
★ Bob McCracken as Joey Pepper
★ Max Grodenchik as Norm
★ Leslie Thurston - Introduced Stacie to her job at the Casino
The 2006 DVD release of the first series does not provide episode names, instead referring to each episode as "Con 1", "Con 2", etc.
On Tuesday 14th May, it was confirmed that the BBC had commissioned a fifth series, but is unsure on how many episodes. Some sources say that there will be six, whereas as other say there will be 8 or even 10, if Adrian Lester decides to reprise his role as Michael Stone. It also has been claimed that more episodes will be filmed in the US, with a number of Hollywood names interested in a part in the show.
However, on the 16th of May, an interview with Robert Glenister in ''The Stage'' magazine says the BBC haven't commissioned any new episodes. [3]
★ The only person to work on both Hustle and spin off series The Real Hustle is James Freedman - expert on con artists and scams.
★ Clive Owen turned down the role of Mickey Bricks. [4]
★ In the first season, second episode, the name of the team's movie company is actually Fake Pictures. The name can be seen when the mark gives the cheque to the team.
★ The con used in the final episode of the first series is the same as the one featured in ''The Sting'' called "The Wire" (this is acknowledged on-screen).
★ Upon first meeting Danny in episode 1, Mickey comments "I bet you've even watched ''The Sting''". Later in the episode, when Danny gate-crashes the con, Mickey introduces Danny as 'Mr Redford'.
★ In series 3, episode 5, the name of the newspaper the team con is changed from the 'Sunday World' in the version broadcast on BBC 1, to the 'Weekend World' in the DVD release. All references to 'Sunday' in the name of the paper are either altered, blanked out or dubbed. This may be due to the fact that the Sunday World is the leading Sunday tabloid in Ireland.
★ At the start of Season 4 episode 1 the gang are talking during a movie and being shushed by a man sitting behind them. Danny spoils the plot for the man when they leave early by telling him that "at the very end all five of them get blown up in a boat." Which is exactly the way the season ends in episode 6.
★ The final line of the fourth series is identical to, and almost certainly a homage to the final line of the original The Italian Job, which ends in a similar fashion, followed by a similar closing shot.
Several series of the show have been released on 2-disc DVDs in both Europe and North America. The UK, Region 2, release of Season One erroneously contained the US edited versions of the episodes, and not the full uncut episodes as originally seen on BBC One. A revised edition was released, which can be identified by the sleeve notes indicating a 58-minute run time for each episode, and "as seen on BBC One".
1. [1]
2. [2]
★ ''Hustle'' at bbc.co.uk
★ ''Hustle'' at AMC
★ ''Hustle'' at CBC
★ ''Hustle'' at TV Squad
★ ''Hustle'' at Unreality TV Primetime
★
★ Series one, episode 1 script at BBC Writers Room
★ Hustle Petition - Requesting The Release Of A ''Hustle'' Soundtrack CD
'''Hustle''' is a British television comedy-drama series made by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom.
| Contents |
| Background |
| Cast |
| Main Characters |
| Contacts |
| Guest stars |
| Series 1 |
| Series 2 |
| Series 3 |
| Series 4 |
| Episodes |
| Series 1 |
| Series 2 |
| Series 3 |
| Series 4 |
| Series 5 |
| Trivia |
| DVD Releases |
| References |
| External links |
Background
Four of the members of the gang taken from Series 4 - Episode 3
Created by Tony Jordan (who also wrote many of the scripts), ''Hustle'' follows a group of London-based con artists as they attempt to dupe money out of their victims ("marks"). Despite their chosen trade, they adhere to codes such as "bad behaviour breeds bad luck". In particular they adhere to the first rule of the con "you can't cheat an honest man" because an honest man doesn't want something for nothing.
The series frequently breaks the fourth wall (usually at least once per episode) and uses cutaway scenes shot in a different style from the rest of the show. For example, in several episodes the characters appear to "stop time", interacting with other characters that are frozen in place, discussing the con either with each other, or even with the audience. The technique is used as a metaphor for how the main characters manipulate their environment at will, as opposed to normal people who have no clue of what is going on. Examples of this can be seen in the pilot episode, "Gold Mine", the first episode of the second series and "Signing up to Wealth", the second episode of the fourth series. Other fourth wall-breaking moments are more subtle - a character smiles at the camera as the con begins to take shape, or makes an editorial comment to the viewers. Some episodes insert fantasy sequences - scenes shot like a Bollywood musical or a silent movie, for example.
AMC promotional image (series 4).
Each episode also amounts to a confidence game played upon the viewers through the use of misdirection and hidden plot details that are revealed at the end of the story. Not all cons depicted are successful, and some episodes focus on the characters dealing with the consequences of their actions.
In addition to one long con, each episode features a number of short cons played by the major characters on members of the public. The short cons demonstrate the seemingly endless array of tricks professional con men possess and the ease with which short cons can be played.
The first six-episode series was originally broadcast in February and March 2004, and a second six-episode series began on 29 March 2005 and ran until May 2005. The third series began on 10 March 2006 (and began on 14 April 2006 on BBC One Scotland).The fourth series began in Britain on Thursday May 3rd at 9:00pm[1] and in the U.S. 18 April, 2007[2].
In October 2005, it was announced that the BBC had sold United States screening rights for the first two seasons to cable television station AMC, who joined as a production partner for the third run. The series is also screened in Spain and Portugal through the People+Arts channel, partially owned by BBC and the first two seasons aired back-to-back on CBC in Canada during the summer of 2006. The third season premiered on CBC on February 13, 2007. Season 4 marked a departure from the usual airing of the series. Typically, the BBC would air the episode in the UK and then 6 to 9 months later they would air in the US on AMC. However, due to the additional funding that AMC provided for the production, Series 4 debuted in the US prior to airing in the UK.
The series got its own spin-off documentary, ''The Real Hustle'', in which Paul Wilson, Jessica-Jane Clement and Alexis Conran travel the country demonstrating cons to real people with the aid of hidden cameras. It is aired regularly on BBC Three.
Cast
Main Characters
★ 'Michael Stone' played by Adrian Lester (Appears In Series 1-3) Michael "Mickey Bricks" Stone is the group’s leader and ‘inside man’. An ambitious, intelligent and driven conman, Stone watched his father struggle to make an honest living for many years before he died just prior to the retirement he had looked forward to his whole life. Mickey understandably hates the system that he feels killed his father, and is determined to make sure he never struggles in the same way. A highly respected long-con expert, it is rumoured that he and Stacey "had a thing once”. Early on in the show, Mickey’s wife divorces him because of his dishonest lifestyle; this plot point helps to illustrate why the life of a grifter isn’t as much fun as it may seem – it can undermine a person’s ability to ever lead a normal life. (This is a theme that reappears throughout the show). Mickey left the team at the end of Season Three, to head up a long con in Sydney, Australia, one that only the great Mickey Bricks could pull off: selling the Sydney opera house.
★ 'Danny Blue' played by Marc Warren - Lacking a particular role within the group, Danny Blue is initially described as a ‘floater’ (a term he abhors). Already a seasoned short-con operator, Danny brashly forces his way into the gang at first, but after proving his loyalty is allowed to stay on and learn from Mickey, who is the “only man in London who can teach him anything”. He challenges Mickey’s authority constantly (as illustrated most explicitly by the ‘Henderson challenge’ episode) and finally gets a chance to lead his own crew when Mickey leaves for Sydney. Cocky and arrogant yet still vulnerable and somehow endearing, Danny is berated by Mickey for his lack of attention to detail when working the con, yet Albert maintains Danny has “…grift sense, and that’s something you can’t teach”. It is this instinct that will pull him through when things go wrong for the group, and Mickey is no longer around to ensure there’s a Plan B.
★ 'Stacie Monroe' played by Jaime Murray - Stacie uses her sex appeal to manipulate potential marks, both while working the long con and in more small-time cons (such as those used to raise funds for the team). She often poses as an employee of an institution (such as a museum) or an expert in a particular field (such as art), and casually mentions potential 'money-making schemes' (which are in reality cons) to provoke the mark's interest in the matter. It is implied that in the past she has had romantic involvement with Micky.
★ 'Ash Morgan' played by Robert Glenister - Ash ‘Three Socks’ Morgan is the team’s fixer, who earned his nickname after his first trip to the showers while in prison. Ash can turn his hand to any job, and is seen at various points acquiring vast amounts of foreign currency, rigging a sophisticated alarm system and pretending to be an oil consultant. When Ash first appears on the show, he is working his favourite con; after deliberately stepping in front of a moving car, Ash passes off an old skull fracture as a fresh injury, in order to make an insurance claim.
★ 'Albert Stroller' played by Robert Vaughn is the team’s Roper. His job is to find the perfect mark; someone who is rich, greedy and has a weakness the team can exploit – and to hook them into the scheme, sometimes with the use of a ‘convincer’ (allowing the mark to make a profit initially, to win his trust for the next, much bigger investment; of which he or she will not see a penny!) Once a shoe salesman in the American Midwest, Albert is an old-style grifter, a gentleman, and a grandfather figure and mentor to the group.
★ 'Billy Bond' played by Ashley Walters (Appears In Series 4 only)
★ 'Eddie' (played by Rob Jarvis) is the owner (and barman) of ''Eddie's Bar'' where the group often plan cons, he is fully aware of the group and their dealings, and usually (but not always) adopts a "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" attitude. Often a victim of the petty grifts played on him by the crew, Eddie has recently taken an active role as a bit player in one of their cons, and generally appears to be rather fond of them despite their minor schemes.
Contacts
★ 'Neil Cooper' (played by Tom Mannion) is another con artist who helps Mickey in Season 1, Episode 1. He acts as a police officer named DePalmer who heads the investigation into the crew.
★ 'Tip Jones' (played by Brian Pettifer) is a forger of classical art. Albert says that Tip is the best forger in the business but is very untrustworthy. When he is first seen it is said that an operation went wrong and he has thus suffered from brain damage. However, this is all a ruse by Tip to fool the Fraud Squad so that he doesn't have to stand trial. Once Albert mentions how much money they intend to con Meredith Gates out of then he soon comes out of his "brain damaged" state. Tip forges an original Mondrian which the crew sell to the collector Meredith Gates. However, Tip betrays the crew and attempts to take the crew's money.
★ 'Samuel Richards' (played by Richard Harrington) is a thief, who wants to steal the diamond that Moore's Bank stole from his father. The crew help him because Victor Maher (the Head of Security at the Bank) forces them to catch Richards but they con Maher as well. Mickey forms a bond with Richards because he feels that their fathers were similar people.
★ 'Adam Rice' (played by Paul Nicholls) is a thief regarded by the police as "The Ghost" due to his ability to just disappear from the crime scene or elude people trying to follow him. He is the kind of person who is used to being followed and so every so often he pulls a vanishing trick just to be on the safe side. He is a keen parachutist and this hobby has come in handy in his line of work when he has needed to get over electric fences and the like. He only works with people he has hand-picked and doesn't like being approached for jobs. He turns Mickey and Danny down when they try and get him to recruit them for his next job. They try and convince him that whatever he is going to steal they will make copies of it and then sell them on as the original thus increasing the take (just like they did with the Star of Africa). He then he shows up in their flat willing to recruit them (well Ashley Morgan really as he needed Ash to shut down the security systems) while Mickey, Danny, and himself steal an original Hans Christian Andersen manuscript.
Guest stars
Series 1
★ James Laurenson as Peter Williams
★ Robert Pugh as Frank Gorley
★ Liz May Brice as DS Terri Hodges
★ Orla Brady as Meredith Gates
★ David Calder as Victor Maher
★ Tamzin Outhwaite as Katherine Winterborn
★ Ben Miles as Steven Winterborn
★ Branka Katic as Olenka
★ David Haig as Anthony Reeves
Series 2
★ Charlie Creed Miles as Howard Jennings
★ Ronald Pickup as Harry Holmes
★ Stanley Townsend as Johnny Keyes
★ Rebecca Lacey as Juliette Keyes
★ Lee Ingleby as Trevor
★ Fay Ripley as Phillips
★ Kieran Bew as Neil Davis
★ Max Beesley as Jake
★ Vincent Regan as DCI Wells
★ Robert Llewellyn as MC
Series 3
★ Mel Smith as Benny Frazier
★ Sara Cox as Herself
★ Linford Christie as Himself
★ Richard Chamberlain as James Whittaker "JW3" Wright III
★ Silas Carson as Kulvinder Samar
★ Renu Setna as Harold
★ Kenneth Cranham as Frances Owen
★ Paul Kaye as Tim Millen
★ Martin Townsend as Himself
★ Paul Nicholls as Adam Rice
Series 4
★ Robert Wagner as Anthony Westley
★ Will Yun Lee as Shiro
★ Charlotte Nguyen as Keiko
★ Chris Tardio as Johnny Maranzano
★ William Lucking as Harry Doyle
★ Barry Shabaka Henley as Thomas Jackson
★ Bob McCracken as Joey Pepper
★ Max Grodenchik as Norm
★ Leslie Thurston - Introduced Stacie to her job at the Casino
Episodes
Series 1
The 2006 DVD release of the first series does not provide episode names, instead referring to each episode as "Con 1", "Con 2", etc.
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Airdate(U.K) |
|---|
Series 2
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Airdate(U.K) |
|---|
Series 3
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Airdate(U.K) |
|---|
Series 4
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Airdate(U.K) |
|---|
Series 5
On Tuesday 14th May, it was confirmed that the BBC had commissioned a fifth series, but is unsure on how many episodes. Some sources say that there will be six, whereas as other say there will be 8 or even 10, if Adrian Lester decides to reprise his role as Michael Stone. It also has been claimed that more episodes will be filmed in the US, with a number of Hollywood names interested in a part in the show.
However, on the 16th of May, an interview with Robert Glenister in ''The Stage'' magazine says the BBC haven't commissioned any new episodes. [3]
Trivia
★ The only person to work on both Hustle and spin off series The Real Hustle is James Freedman - expert on con artists and scams.
★ Clive Owen turned down the role of Mickey Bricks. [4]
★ In the first season, second episode, the name of the team's movie company is actually Fake Pictures. The name can be seen when the mark gives the cheque to the team.
★ The con used in the final episode of the first series is the same as the one featured in ''The Sting'' called "The Wire" (this is acknowledged on-screen).
★ Upon first meeting Danny in episode 1, Mickey comments "I bet you've even watched ''The Sting''". Later in the episode, when Danny gate-crashes the con, Mickey introduces Danny as 'Mr Redford'.
★ In series 3, episode 5, the name of the newspaper the team con is changed from the 'Sunday World' in the version broadcast on BBC 1, to the 'Weekend World' in the DVD release. All references to 'Sunday' in the name of the paper are either altered, blanked out or dubbed. This may be due to the fact that the Sunday World is the leading Sunday tabloid in Ireland.
★ At the start of Season 4 episode 1 the gang are talking during a movie and being shushed by a man sitting behind them. Danny spoils the plot for the man when they leave early by telling him that "at the very end all five of them get blown up in a boat." Which is exactly the way the season ends in episode 6.
★ The final line of the fourth series is identical to, and almost certainly a homage to the final line of the original The Italian Job, which ends in a similar fashion, followed by a similar closing shot.
DVD Releases
Several series of the show have been released on 2-disc DVDs in both Europe and North America. The UK, Region 2, release of Season One erroneously contained the US edited versions of the episodes, and not the full uncut episodes as originally seen on BBC One. A revised edition was released, which can be identified by the sleeve notes indicating a 58-minute run time for each episode, and "as seen on BBC One".
| DVD Name | Region 2 Release Date | Region 1 Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Hustle Complete Season One | 18 April, 2005 | September 5, 2005 |
| Hustle Complete Season Two | 19 September, 2005 | February 13, 2006 |
| Hustle Complete Season Three | 23 April, 2007 | July 10, 2007 |
| Hustle One to Three Complete | 23 April, 2007 | TBA |
| Hustle Complete Season Four | TBA | TBA |
References
1. [1]
2. [2]
External links
★ ''Hustle'' at bbc.co.uk
★ ''Hustle'' at AMC
★ ''Hustle'' at CBC
★ ''Hustle'' at TV Squad
★ ''Hustle'' at Unreality TV Primetime
★
★ Series one, episode 1 script at BBC Writers Room
★ Hustle Petition - Requesting The Release Of A ''Hustle'' Soundtrack CD
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