EXCLUSIVE: The BBC and BritBox’s Poirot series Hercule has unveiled more cast including Katherine Parkinson (Rivals), Omari Douglas (Black Doves) and Toby Stephens (Jane Eyre).
As with previous cast releases, the trio’s roles are being kept under wraps, but they come as the BBC and BritBox reveal the second book to be adapted for Mammoth Screen’s TV show will be Agatha Christie’s Peril at End House, following Lord Edgware Dies. The third novel the show will be part-based on is still to be revealed.
Other new cast include Jessica Alexander (The Beauty), Honor Swinton Byrne (The Souvenir), Paul Forman (Emily in Paris), Arthur Hughes (Shardlake), Ralf Little (Death in Paradise), River Medway (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK) and Natalie Quarry (Call the Midwife).
Deadline revealed earlier this year that Hercule was in the works and Edward Bluemel is playing the lead. The six-episode show is billed as “an intimate study of Hercule Poirot” while introducing the world’s greatest fictional detective to “future friends, allies and one particular nemesis.” Intrigue surrounds who will play which roles, and the identity of the nemesis. Peril at End House features Christie fan favorites like Arthur Hustings and Chief Inspector Japp and is set in Cornwall, where Poirot and Hastings meet a young woman who is persuaded that someone is out to kill her.
The show is currently filming in Liverpool and comes as Christie adaptations continue to rate, with Netflix’s Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials recently drawing in big audiences.
Written by Benji Walters (Code of Silence), the first two episodes are being directed by Jonny Campbell (Am I Being Unreasonable?), with Chanya Button (Code of Silence) and Alrick Riley (Bridgerton) directing the second two episodes and the final two episodes respectively. The executive producers are Walters and Campbell, James Prichard for Agatha Christie Limited, Rebecca Durbin and Damien Timmer for Mammoth Screen, Nick Lambon for the BBC, and Robert Schildhouse, Jon Farrar, and Stephen Nye for BritBox. Charlie Palmer (A Woman Of Substance) serves as series producer. Fifth Season is handling global distribution.
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