Robert Thorogood’s guide will turn into a four-hour drama starring Samantha Bond.
Author Robert Thorogood is finest often called the creator of the enduring Dying in Paradise. At the moment filming its thirteenth sequence, and with a by-product up and operating, it seems we are able to’t get sufficient of the sun-drenched whodunnit.
Nonetheless, there’s one other Thorogood creation on the best way as UKTV have commissioned an adaptation of his 2021 novel, The Marlow Homicide Membership. The 4 hour, two-part drama is a co-commission with co-producer and US broadcaster MASTERPIECE, produced by Monumental Tv (Ghosts) in affiliation with ITV Studios.
It stars Samantha Bond within the lead position of Judith Potts. The introduced forged additionally contains Jo Martin (Physician Who), Cara Horgan (The Sandman) and Natalie Dew (The Seize).
Right here’s what we learn about The Marlow Homicide Membership:
Retired archaeologist Judith Potts (Bond) lives alone in a pale mansion within the peaceable city of Marlow, filling her time by setting crosswords for the native paper. Throughout certainly one of her common wild swims within the Thames, Judith hears a gunshot coming from a neighbour’s backyard and believes a brutal homicide has taken place.
When the police are reluctant to imagine her story, Judith finds herself forming an unlikely friendship with native dog-walker and empty-nester Suzie (Martin) and unfulfilled vicar’s spouse Becks (Horgan) as they begin an investigation of their very own. Finally requested to help with the official police investigation, headed by newly promoted Tanika (Dew), the ladies should piece collectively clues, grill suspect witnesses, and face down actual hazard as they work towards the clock to cease the killer of their tracks.
Robert Thorogood mentioned:
“After over a decade of engaged on Dying in Paradise, I’m thrilled to be making a brand-new homicide thriller sequence for TV. I can’t look forward to audiences to hitch Judith, Becks and Suzie on their adventures as they remedy a sequence of fiendishly puzzling murders.”
The director of The Marlow Homicide Membership is Steve Barron (The Durrells, Across the World in 80 Days), the producer is Jane Wallbank. The chief producers for Monumental Tv are Debra Hayward, Alison Owen and Alison Carpenter. Susanne Simpson is govt producer for MASTERPIECE, whereas Steve Barron and Robert Thorogood additionally function govt producers.
Ought to the present be successful, there’s additionally a second novel within the sequence known as Dying Comes To Marlow ripe for adaptation too. The third, The Queen of Poisons is out in January 2024.
The present will air on Drama and UKTV Play in 2024. MASTERPIECE will air the sequence in 4 components on PBS.