David Mitchell will star as John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor who assumes his detective brother’s identification. 

The BBC have introduced the beginning of filming on Ludwig. No, not a revival of the odd 1970’s kids’s animation, however a brand new detective collection starring David Mitchell.

Ludwig is described as a genre-bending mystery-of-the-week crime comedy drama. Right here’s the premise:

When John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor’s (David Mitchell) an identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother’s identification in a quest to find his whereabouts. John has by no means married, by no means had a household and by no means actually ventured additional than his personal entrance door. With out a pc, cell phone or perhaps a tv, he lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a dwelling, beneath the nom-de-plume of ‘Ludwig’.

Nonetheless, filling the sneakers of your an identical twin is one factor – when your twin additionally occurs to be a profitable DCI main Cambridge’s busy inner-city main crimes workforce the stakes are a lot larger. John could also be a grasp of all issues cryptic, however can he crack the most important puzzle of his life?

Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland, Line of Responsibility) additionally stars, taking part in John’s sister-in-law and spouse of his lacking brother James.

The broader solid consists of Dipo Ola (Landscapers), Gerran Howell (Catch-22), Izuka Hoyle (Boiling Level), Dylan Hughes (Malory Towers), and Dorothy Atkinson (The Gold).

David Mitchell stated:

“I’m delighted to be working in a style of tv that I’ve cherished ever since, on the age of 10, I began watching the Miss Marple variations, starring Joan Hickson, with my mother and father. Generally the one factor that may deliver the entire household collectively is homicide.”

Ludwig comes from Huge Speak Studios, in affiliation with That Mitchell And Webb Firm, for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The present’s creator and author is Mark Brotherhood. The Government Producers are Kenton Allen, Mark Brotherhood, Saurabh Kakkar, David Mitchell, Kathryn O’Connor and Chris Sussman, the Producer is Georgie Fallon. The Administrators are Robert McKillop and Jill Robertson.

Oh, and that different Ludwig? Take pleasure in…