Things are going swimmingly in the fictional Dorset village of Fleetcombe, until its pub landlord is murdered. It falls to Detective Nicola Bridge to find the killer, even if it means exposing resentment and deceit simmering beneath the surface of the community.
The novel is part of a two-book deal, and will be published on 27 March 2025 in the UK and 10 June 2025 in America.
Together with Chibnall’s screenwriting, Suzanne Mackie (The Crown) will executive produce the series with Good Omens’ Chris Sussman. Chris Sweeney (The Tourist, Back to Life) will direct.
There is no word on how closely the team will adapt the book, as recent adaptions of Agatha Christie’s work have opted to update the material for modern audiences.
The show will select players based on both their brains and social intelligence. Those looking to get ahead in the programme’s all-new game formats will need to use their heads in more ways than one.
As well as mental acuity, contestants will need to use the dark art of manipulation to cheat each other out of the cash prize.
Yesterday, ITV tweeted out a brain teaser hinting that Tennant was the host.
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Lighting is key to camera work, says cinematographer Laurie Rose. It’s essential to establishing a look or mood for a scene. “The important thing is to tell a story and create mood using light,” he explains.
Between them Laurie and cinematographer Matt Gray have credits on shows as varied as Peaky Blinders, Broadchurch and Riviera.
Peaky Blinders' Laurie Rose and Liar's Matt Gray share their expert advice on cinematography.
In an interview for BBC 6 Music, the actor spoke of her excitement to take on the role and to work again with Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall, who is taking over from Steven Moffatt as head writer and executive producer. “I already know how incredible he is,” she said, adding “He’s come from a fan’s point of view, so the direction he’s going to take it is going to be incredible.”
Most people, asked to identify the show that changed the career of Chris Chibnall, would point to his ITV crime trilogy Broadchurch. But, for Chibnall, the show that altered everything was, unusually, a flop: Camelot, his king-and-wizard drama for the US cable network Starz, which struggled to the end of one season in 2011.
Ah, they remember it well. It was the autumn of 2015 and Peter Fincham, ITV’s director of television, and Tim Hincks, President of Endemol Shine Group, were having breakfast together.
At least, that’s how Fincham recalls it. Hincks insists it was a drink after work. That detail doesn’t matter. The news they shared, as Fincham explains, did.
