Photographer David LaChapelle directed three 30-second advertisements for the series. The main themes are friendship and growing older Glenister said it is about ageing and 'getting closer to death'. Filming took place on location throughout the island of Majorca in May 2010, and took around four million euros and 44 days to make. After Alvo is murdered, the group find themselves caught up in the world of crime and police corruption.Īfter gaining interest from some terrestrial networks, the series was commissioned by British Sky Broadcasting. The series stars John Simm, Marc Warren, Max Beesley, and Philip Glenister as four long-time and middle-aged friends getting together in a villa in Majorca to celebrate the early retirement of their friend Alvo ( Ben Chaplin).
It is produced by Left Bank Pictures, and co-produced by Palma Pictures. Mad Dogs is a British psychological thriller television series, written and created by Cris Cole, that began airing on Sky1 on 10 February 2011, and ended on 29 December 2013 after four series and 14 episodes.
