High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wire in the Blood is a British crime drama television series produced by Coastal Productions for the ITV network. The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid; a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill (Robson Green) is teamed with a tough female Detective Inspector. In the first three series, she is Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris) but is replaced by Detective Inspector Alex Fielding (Simone Lahbib) from series four to six.