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Dalgliesh has its premiere date. Season three of the British detective series will arrive in December, and Acorn TV has released a trailer teasing the show's return.

Bertie Carvel, Carlyss Peer, and Alistair Brammer star in the Dalgliesh series, which is based on the novels by P.D. James. Set in the mid-1970s, the crime drama follows Commander Adam Dalgliesh (Carvel) and his team as they investigate crimes.

Anton Lesser, Lloyd Owen, Claire Goose, Liz White, Adam James, Richard Lintern, Ellora Torchia, Parth Thakerar, Soni Razdan, and Josie Walker will be guest stars this season.

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Exclusive: A third season of Acorn TV and Channel 5 detective drama Dalgliesh has begun filming in Northern Ireland.

Produced by New Pictures (The Long Shadow) for Acorn and C5 in association with All3Media International, the third run will include lead actor Bertie Carvel making his directorial debut.

Another three P.D. James novels will be adapted for the season over two hour-long episodes each, in which Commander Dalgliesh is seen with Margaret Thatcher on the cusp of power in the UK. In the first book, Death in Holy Orders, Dalgliesh travels to a remote seminary overlooking a windswept lake, where a body has been found gruesomely murdered. Nearly everyone in the seminary has reason to resent the victim, and Dalgliesh and DS Tarrant must unpick a complicated set of motives to find their killer.

In the second, Cover Her Face, Dalgliesh investigates a murder in the Essex home of the Mehtas,...

Dalgliesh Series Two is set to arrive on DVD and digital, following its TX on Channel 5, alongside Dalgliesh Series One & Two DVD Box Set, courtesy of Acorn Media International on 15 May 2023, and we have DVD box set to give away!

Bertie Carvel is back on the box as Dalgliesh in the hugely popular TV series – based on renowned author P.D. James’ detective novels – with its highly anticipated return, following its critically-acclaimed first series that attracted an audience of more than four million.

Dedicated to cracking crime and bringing killers to justice, cunning and intellectual detective Adam Dalgliesh follows in the footsteps of distinguished detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Poirot. Both series are adapted from three books, tracing the sleuth’s expansive crime-fighting career and each case offersits own unique setting and a stellar cast of guests, including Jeremy Irvine (War Horse), Natasha Little (War of the Worlds...

The first season of Acorn TV‘s Dalgliesh is coming to an end this Monday, November 15 with two back-to-back episodes, and we have an exclusive first look at the finale installments. The series, adapted from P.D. James’ bestselling murder novels known as the Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, follows the titular detective and poet Adam Dalgliesh (Bertie Carvel) as he works to solve some perplexing mysteries. (Credit: Acorn TV) By Adam’s side is Charles Masterson (Jeremy Irvine) and Kate Miskin (Carlyss Peer), who are essential to his investigation in “A Taste for Death, Part 1” and “A Taste for Death, Part 2.” In a sneak peek clip, above, the trio of crime solvers tries to piece together the crime scene they’re investigating in a church. After two bodies are found with their throats slashed, Adam, Charles, and Kate work through the scenarios under which such outcomes are possible. “I think Sir Paul knew his killer,...

Recruiting into the drug trade isn’t difficult when impoverished youth from broken homes are desperate to find purpose and escape. With school and family often devoid of the resources to properly engage or distract, a little flash of money or a seemingly sympathetic shoulder go a long way. Prove that you’re their champion and savior and they’ll do anything in return. Look no further than fourteen-year-old Tyler (Conrad Khan) after constantly getting in trouble for fighting back against bullies. If the school punishes him despite being the victim and his mother (Ashley Madekwe’s Toni) barely has time to sleep while working night shifts let alone show face with the principal, why wouldn’t he gravitate towards a man (Harris Dickinson’s Simon) who willingly stands up to protect him instead?

That’s all it takes: an involuntary quid pro quo set-up by a predator in order...

Noel Clarke, the Bulletproof and Adulthood writer and actor, is to headline ITV’s Viewpoint, a Rear Window-esque crime drama based on an idea from Emmy-winning Fleabag helmer Harry Bradbeer.

Produced by Peaky Blinders co-producer Tiger Aspect, Clarke plays surveillance detective, DC Martin King, who sets up an observation post in the home of single mum and secret voyeur, Zoe Sterling, played by Alexandra Roach (Black Mirror).

Sterling’s windows command a panoramic view of Westbury Square, Manchester, and provides a direct sightline into the home of beloved missing school teacher, Gemma Hillman (Amy Wren). Hillman shares the home with her boyfriend and prime suspect, Greg Sullivan, played by Fehinti Balogu.

Rounding out the cast are Catherine Tyldesley (Scarborough), Bronagh Waugh (The Fall), Sarah Niles (Trust Me), Shannon Murray (Get Even), Phil Davis (Whitechapel) Ian Puleston-Davies (Tin Star), Dominic Allburn (Jack Irish: Dead Point), Marcus Garvey (Broadchurch), Carlyss Peer...

Full casting is today announced for the world premiere of the new musical Groundhog Day, which previews at the Old Vic from July 11 with a press night on August 16. Carlyss Peer will play Rita Hanson,alongside the previously announced Andy Karl in the role of Phil Connors.Eugene McCoy plays cameraman Larry, and the ensemble cast includesLeo Andrew, David Birch, Ste Clough, Roger Dipper, Georgina Hagen, Kieran Jae, Julie Jupp, Andrew Langtree, Vicki Lee Taylor, Emma Lindars, Antonio Magro, Carolyn Maitland, Kirsty Malpass, Lisa Mathieson, Jenny O'Leary, Leanne Pinder, Mark Pollard, Damien Poole, Jack Shalloo, Andrew Spillett and Spencer Stafford.