Redhead is kidnapped and interrogated by Prangers, who retrieves the loot stolen in the robbery. Dionne decides to confront Rudy, but will her conscience get the better of her? Dionne is furious when she discovers Redhead deceived her, but he ignores her anguish and decides to go ahead with the robbery anyway. Subsequently, Redhead invites Dionne out for a drive, although she is blissfully unaware that she is about to be accomplice to a potentially life-changing situation.ĭionne and Redhead are searched by the police, but manage to escape when the officers are distracted by a further crime taking place nearby. Meanwhile, Rudy, a member of Redhead's gang, prompts him to commit an armed robbery. Dionne, however, decides to put her career ahead of their relationship and goes ahead with her performance, forcing a badly injured Warren to leave alone to seek refuge from a further beating.ĭionne successfully defeats her opponent in the rap battle, but leaves swiftly to find a badly-beaten Warren. She has no choice but to throw Warren out, but he warns her that he will be at the mercy of a drugs kingpin who has taken a strong disliking to him.ĭionne gives Warren a second chance, but begins to regret her decision when he gate-crashes her performance at the rave by getting into a fight with a fellow partygoer. Her elation is short-lived, however, when she catches her cousin Warren with a stash of drugs.
In order to ensure her own safety, Dionne is forced to flee and has no choice but to take refuge with the gang.ĭionne's association with the gang continues to grow as she is booked to perform as the headline act an illegal rave.
Dubplate drama 2 series#
The second series was also extended to twelve episodes, which ran at an extended length of thirty minutes each. Subsequently, the second series was awarded the fixed timeslot of 12.30am on Thursdays, with episodes being rerun on E4 the following weekend. Across the course of the six-week broadcast, the series gathered a combined audience of 3.3 million viewers. Despite a late-night timeslot, the first series, comprising six fifteen-minute episodes, earned a peak audience of 480,000 viewers and was critically well received. The series featured appearances from a number of well-known British grime and hip-hop musicians, including Rodney P, Dappy, Tulisa, Fazer, Big Narstie and Tim Westwood.Īside from being shown on Channel 4, the series also aired on MTV Base and was made available on demand via social networking site MySpace.
Thus, two alternative versions of every episode were filmed, with the version broadcast depending on the outcome of the viewer vote. The series was described as "the world's first interactive drama series", as it allowed viewers to vote on the outcome of each episode through an interactive text service. The series follows the plight of teenage grime MC Dionne lead actress played by ( Chanel "Shystie" Cali), as she tries to achieve her dream of obtaining a major-label record deal to help provide for her grandmother. Dubplate Drama is a British television drama series, created, written and directed by Luke Hyams, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 11 November 2005.
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