Delia Balmer, the protagonist of ITV’s true-crime drama Until I Kill You, is a singular sort of person. She’s a “traveller”, not a “tourist”; a “female” never a “woman”, with the sharpest of tongues.
Balmer, played by Anna Maxwell Martin, is isolated. Living alone in a run-down flat in London’s Kentish Town in 1991, she is virtually friendless at the hospital where she works as a nurse, and her family lives overseas.
The announcement might not come as a surprise after 9.5 million tuned in over 28 days, making it the BBC’s biggest scripted series of 2024 so far.
Mitchell stars as the genius puzzle designer John Taylor, alias ‘Ludwig’, who's just as socially awkward as Mitchell's iconic Peep Show character Mark Corrigan, albeit much less toxic.
Series one saw John’s twin brother James (also Mitchell) disappear in strange circumstances, much to the dismay of James’ wife Lucy Betts-Taylor (Anna Maxwell Martin).
A Good Girl's Guide for Murder follows Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers), a 17-year-old who has chosen a five-year-old local murder-suicide case for her final school project. As she gets further and further into the case, she discovers that the original verdict may not be correct. Working alongside the accused’s brother, Ravi Singh (Zain Iqbal), Pip will have to uncover the true events before the real killer covers their tracks.
