Is The Responder on BBC 2 based on a true story?

MARTIN Freeman is getting ready for his next big crime show, The Responder.

The series follows an unconventional urgent response officer tackling a series of night shifts on the beat in Liverpool.

Is The Responder on BBC 2 based on a true story?

The show is based true events as it is about the life of ex-police officer Tony Schumacher, who is also the writer for the series.

This is his first original series for television and it holds a mirror up to the emotional extremes of life on the front line of British policing – sometimes darkly funny, sometimes painfully tragic, always challenging.

Speaking about what it was like to be a police responder, Tony told the BBC: “Every time you opened the car door, you didn’t know what you were going to find.

“It’s brilliantly exciting at the start but after a bit it becomes a bit monotonous and then it becomes a bit too much.”

What is The Responder about?

The Responder follows Chris (Martin Freeman), a crisis-stricken, morally compromised, unconventional urgent response officer tackling a series of night shifts on the beat in Liverpool.

Whilst trying to keep his head above water both personally and professionally, Chris is forced to take on a new rookie partner Rachel (Adelayo Adedayo).

Both soon discover that survival in this high pressure, relentless, night-time world will depend on them either helping or destroying each other.