Paul Marcus produced three series of the Granada Television police drama Prime Suspect (1991 - 2006), winning an Emmy award for one of them. The programmes centred on Helen Mirren’s portrayal of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison. As the series progresses, Tennison has difficulties balancing her work with her private life, has an abortion, starts to rely on alcohol and finally becomes addicted to it. At the time Prime Suspect began, there were only four female DCIs working in Britain.