Born to Kill
Genre	Thriller
Created by	Tracey Malone Kate Ashfield
Written by	Tracey Malone Kate Ashfield
Directed by	Bruce Goodison
Starring	Jack Rowan Romola Garai Lara Peake Daniel Mays Richard Coyle Earl Cave Sharon Small Elizabeth Counsell Karl Johnson Jeany Spark
Composer	Samuel Sim
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Roderick Seligman Jake Lushington
Producer	Lucy Robinson
Cinematography	Joel Devlin Sam Care
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	World Productions
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	20 April (2017-04-20) – 11 May 2017 (2017-05-11)

Born to Kill is a British television drama, produced by World Productions, that was first broadcast on Channel 4 from 20 April to 11 May 2017.^[1] The four-part serial stars Jack Rowan as Sam Woodford, a seemingly ordinary 16-year-old schoolboy who harbours secret psychopathic tendencies. The series also stars Romola Garai as Sam's mother, Jenny; Lara Peake as Sam's girlfriend, Chrissie; Earl Cave as Sam's only friend, Oscar; Daniel Mays as Chrissie's father, Bill; and Richard Coyle as Sam's father, Peter. The series was written and created by Tracey Malone and Kate Ashfield, becoming Malone's second original television production following Rillington Place. The series is distributed worldwide by BBC Worldwide.^[2]

The series serves as Rowan's first leading television role, having only previously appeared as a regular character in Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands. The series achieved average viewing figures for its time slot, with 2.43 million viewers tuning in for episode one, and a slight drop to 1.74 million for episode two.^[3] The complete series was released on DVD on 12 June 2017.^[4]

Cast

• Jack Rowan as Sam Woodford, a 16-year-old schoolboy with psychopathic tendencies
• Romola Garai as Jenny Woodford, Sam's mother who works as a nurse at the local hospital
• Lara Peake as Chrissie Anderson, a fellow student with whom Sam enters a relationship
• Daniel Mays as Bill Anderson, Chrissie's father
• Richard Coyle as Peter Woodford, Sam's biological father
• Earl Cave as Oscar, a schoolboy that Sam befriends
• Jeany Spark as Lauren, Oscar's mother
• Simon Bubb as Mike, Oscar's father,
• Elizabeth Counsell as Margaret Anderson, Bill's mother and Chrissie's grandmother
• Karl Johnson as Mr. Williams, a hospital patient whom Sam befriends
• Sharon Small as Cathy, Jenny's best friend and colleague
• James Greene as Bob Franklin, a hospital patient whom Sam befriends
• Lolita Chakrabarti as Helen Deverill, a psychologist who represents Jenny during Peter's parole hearing
• Pal Aron as Philip, a prison liaison officer working on behalf of Peter's parole board

Episodes