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With TV adaptations of Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders complete, PBS Masterpiece will adapt the third and final installment in best-selling novelist Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series, Marble Hall Murders, next. Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan will reprise their roles for this third adaptation, PBS announced on January 29. Since it’s the final book in the series, is this the show’s final season? Here’s everything there is to know about Marble Hall Murders. When does Marble Hall Murders come out? An official premiere date will be announced at a later time, but filming will begin in March in Dublin, the Greek island of Corfu, and London. “I’m so happy to bring the team back – stars, director, producers and crew — for a third installment of what has been a fantastically successful TV series. I have a feeling this could be the best yet,” Horowitz said in a...

The BBC has announced it has acquired Marble Hall Murders, the third and final installment in Anthony Horowitz's best-selling series of novels. Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan will reprise their roles in the new show.

As per the BBC's official announcement, Marble Hall Murders will follow up from the acclaimed murder mystery showsMoonflower Murders and Magpie Murders, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and executive produced by Jill Green. Eleventh Hour Films is making the series in association with Salt Films for PBS Masterpiece and the BBC. It is expected to begin filming in March across Dublin, Corfu and London.

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The novel version of Marble Hall Murders has yet to be published, and it is expected to go on sale April 10. It marks...

A third installment of PBS Masterpiece’s hit “Murders” series – featuring 2022′s Magpie Murders and 2024′s Moonflower Murders – has been ordered!

Marble Hall Murders will be the third and final chapter in the Susan Ryeland series, and we know of two confirmed stars who will be returning for the new episodes.

Keep reading to find out more…

Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan will both be reprising their roles as Susan Ryland and Atticus Pund in the new season.

Here’s the synopsis, according to Deadline: “The story picks up with Susan returning to England where she is drawn into a new Atticus Pünd mystery — this time written by a new, young writer. ‘Pünd’s Last Case’ is a story set in 1955 in a villa in Corfu – but the identity of a real killer is hidden in the book.”

Rebecca Gatward will be back to direct, and production kicks off in March.

Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan will once again reprise their respective roles as book editor Susan Ryeland and fictional detective Atticus Pünd in Marble Hall Murders, Masterpiece PBS’ trilogy-ending follow-up to Magpie Murders (2022) and Moonflower Murders (2024).

The series will begin filming in March in Dublin, Corfu and London, with additional cast to be announced at a later date.

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Oscar nominee Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan are set to return in “Marble Hall Murders,” the third and final installment of Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland mystery series, which has been commissioned by Masterpiece on PBS and acquired by the BBC.

The new adaptation follows the success of “Moonflower Murders” and “Magpie Murders,” with Eleventh Hour Films partnering with Salt Films for PBS Masterpiece and the BBC. The series will lens in March across Dublin, Corfu and London locations.

Manville returns as Susan Ryeland, a book editor with an uncanny knack for finding herself embroiled in murder mysteries. The latest case sees her back in England, where she becomes entangled in a new Atticus Pünd mystery penned by an emerging writer. Set in 1955 at a luxurious Corfu villa, “Pünd’s Last Case” harbors more than just fictional intrigue – a real killer’s identity lies hidden within its pages, putting Susan in mortal danger once again.

John Christian Plummer is a well-known Hallmark mystery screenwriter who all Sleuthers know because of the Mystery 101 series. Now, the talented scribe has written a new holiday mystery Five Gold Rings starring Holland Roden and Nolan Gerard Funk. This holiday movie is premiering on Thursday, November 7, at 8 p.m., Eastern, on Hallmark Mystery.

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Magpie Murders is back with the latest installment, Moonflower Murders. Like the first series, it follows Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville), an editor, solving a real murder mirrored by a mystery in a client’s novel. Pippa Bennett-Warner plays Madeline, a character in the story within a story. “I tried not to think about the play-within-the-plays type thing because what was happening to her was absolutely happening to her,” says Bennett-Warner of playing a fictional character, even within the world of the show. While the real mystery is happening in the present, Bennett-Warner’s character exists in the 1950s. Says Anthony Horowitz, the author of the Magpie Murders book series, “We have a 1950s detective having a relationship with a 21st-century editor…there’s nothing on television that’s quite like it.” Says Bennett-Warner of the period setting, “We’d look at the monitor after some of the takes and it...

The PBS series Moonflower Murders treats viewers to a cleverly crafted dual-narrative mystery. Adapted from Anthony Horowitz’s novels, it stars Lesley Manville as Susan Ryeland, an editor turned amateur sleuth. Just like in the previous installment, Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders follows Susan as she investigates an actual murder that seems tied to the unsolved crime in a new novel by late author Alan Conway.

This latest case brings Susan back to her former hometown in England after settling in Greece. There, a couple finds alarming similarities between Conway’s latest fictional murder and a recent death at their country inn. At the same time, Susan dives into Conway’s story of a 1950s actress murdered at a lavish home. She closely examines the book for any clues it may hold about both past and present crimes.

What makes Moonflower Murders so enjoyable is how seamlessly it interweaves these parallel narratives.

New viewers and old fans now have a rare chance to catch up with the darkly comedic BBC hit Magpie Murders beginning August 11 when PBS re-airs the original series before the debut of its sequel, Moonflower Murders. Adapted by Anthony Horowitz from his own twisty best-selling novel, the series features multiple twists, more than a dozen delightfully likely suspects, red herrings, and a shocking ending that rivals the best of Agatha Christie. Its two parallel plotlines center on book editor Susan Ryeland, wonderfully played by Lesley Manville, best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2017s Phantom Thread.

Season 2 of Magpie Murders – titled Moonflower Murders – is almost here!

If you need a refresher, Magpie Murders, which is currently re-airing its first season on PBS Masterpiece over the next few weeks, has a second season coming. Season 2 has been dubbed “Moonflower Murders” and will see many of the same cast members from the first iteration of the series.

The Masterpiece Mystery! series will premiere on Sunday, September 15, 2024.

Keep reading to see which season 1 cast members are returning for season 2…...

Exclusive: PBS Documentaries has launched a Prime Video channel in Canada.

Echoing its U.S. counterpart, the channel will kick off with a wealth of docs from pioneering filmmaker Ken Burns’ collection. These will include The Vietnam War, Baseball, The American Buffalo, The U.S. and the Holocaust and Muhammad Ali.

In addition to the Burns library, it will feature the likes of Nova, Frontline, American Masters, Independent Lens, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer and The Gilded Age. Henry Louis Gates Jr’s Gospel and Finding Your Roots will also be on the channel.

The first film about a non-American subject, Leonardo da Vinci, will be added in November, according to Burns, who said he was “thrilled that Canadian audiences will now be able to see all of our past films.”

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Sony Pictures Television (Spt) has taken majority control of Eleventh Hour Films, the U.K.-based TV production company it first invested in back in 2018.

The deal, announced Monday, sees Eleventh Hour join Spt’s stable of majority-owned British drama outfits, alongside Left Bank Pictures (The Crown), Bad Wolf (His Dark Materials) and Eleven (Sex Education). Helion Partners advised Eleventh Hour on the transaction. Financial details were not disclosed.

Sony said the capital investment with “supercharge the next phase of growth” for the company, known for such Brit procedurals as Magpie Murders and Foyle’s War and teen spy thriller Alex Rider.

More recently, Eleventh Hour produced the legal thriller The Killing Kind starring Emma Appleton and Colin Morgan for Paramount+ and rebooted the Scottish crime drama Rebus for the BBC, featuring Richard Rankin. The company has also announced Moonflower Murders, a sequel to Magpie Murders starring Lesley Manville, which...

Sony Pictures Television (Spt) has revealed an increased investment in Eleventh Hour Films (Ehf), taking a majority stake in the U.K.-based production company. This move makes Ehf the fourth majority-owned, U.K.-based scripted drama company in Spt’s International Production group, joining Left Bank Pictures, Bad Wolf and Eleven.

The investment follows a period of growth for Ehf, which has secured multiple commissions and recommissions. Spt aims to bolster Ehf’s strategic growth and strengthen collaborative ties.

Ehf, founded in 2010, has produced several popular dramas, including “Magpie Murders” and its upcoming sequel “Moonflower Murders,” both based on novels by Anthony Horowitz, for PBS Masterpiece and the BBC. Other productions include a new adaptation of the “Rebus” crime novels for the BBC, “The Killing Kind” for Paramount+ U.K. and Hulu, and three seasons of the spy series “Alex Rider.” Ehf is also set to produce an upcoming original mystery thriller,...

Sony Pictures Television (Spt) is maintaining its focus on British TV drama with another big acquisition deal.

The studio has upped its minority shareholding in Alex Rider producer Eleventh Hour Films to a majority stake. Sony had first invested in the British indie in 2018.

Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Eleventh Hour will sit alongside fellow UK drama producers Left Bank, Bad Wolf and Eleven in the Spt stable. Along with the shareholder changes, company founder Jill Green will move from her CEO role to become a creative executive producer. She will remain chair, and Eve Gutierrez and Paula Cuddy will become co-CEOs.

According to documents on Companies House, before today’s transaction Spt controlled 22.7% of the shares, with Green owning 43.2%, Gutierrez 14.4%, Cuddy 5.3% and Eleventh Hour Films as an entity the remaining 14.3%. It’s not immediately clear how much Sony will own under the new structure. The studio...

John Stamos isn’t mincing words on UnPrisoned.

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Moonflower Murders, the Masterpiece follow up to Magpie Murders, has a release date: The second series chronicling a mystery solved by Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) and the fictional Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) will premiere September 15 on PBS.

Masterpiece also dropped the first trailer for the series. The action, which is based on Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling novel of the same name, takes place after the events of Magpie Murders, the hit series shown on PBS in 2022. More than 5.5 million viewers watched Magpie Murders and the series has been streamed over 3.1 million times.

In addition to Manville and McMullan, the cast of Moonflower Murders includes Conleth Hill, Mark Gatiss, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Daniel Mays.

Moonflower Murders is the second novel in Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series. Published in 2020, it picks up where Magpie Murders left off: Susan has left the cut-throat world of publishing and is living in Crete with her longtime boyfriend,...

Prolific author Anthony Horowitz has scripted mystery drama Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue, here are the details.

Anthony Horowitz is perhaps best known for creating the Alex Rider franchise, which so far comprises fourteen novels, seven short stories, a critically maligned 2006 film and a popular television drama on Amazon Prime, the third and final series of which aired last month. He has also written many standalone novels and the terrific Horowitz Horror books of horror stories for older children.

However, he is just as prolific writing for the screen, creating the brilliant time travel drama Crime Traveller, which starred Michael French and Red Dwarf star Chloe Annett, ITV drama Foyle’s War and the television adaptation of his novel Magpie Murders.

His latest series is Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue, which has been acquired by the BBC. The synopsis reads as follows:

A plane carrying a small group of passengers,...

Kenneth Branagh is back for this third — and by TheWrap’s account, best — appearance as Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot in “A Haunting in Venice.” He also directs the spooky mystery, which boasts a terrific lineup of murder suspects (and potential victims), including Michelle Yeoh, Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Kelly Reilly.

Here’s who plays which character in the film based on Christie’s 1969 novel “Hallowe’en Party” — and where you might have seen the less familiar names before.

“A Haunting in Venice” is now streaming on Disney+.

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Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot

British actor Kenneth Branagh reprises his role as the fussy Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, whom he previously played in the recent remakes “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile.” The film begins in 1947 with Poirot retired from sleuthing and leading a quiet life in Venice — until he’s dragged into a new case.

The Magpie Murders ending is filled with reveals and twists, leading viewers to seek answers on Reddit for a clearer understanding. Susan uncovers the truth behind Alan Conway's death, Charles Clover as the killer, and the accidental death of Mary, while Robert is found guilty of killing Sir Magnus Pye.

The Magpie Murders ending explained is filled with so many reveals, twists, and turns that some viewers have taken to Reddit for clear-cut answers. A faithful adaptation of the 2016 mystery novel of the same name by Anthony Horowitz, the 2022 Magpie Murder TV show follows an editor named Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) who is assigned a manuscript of the latest Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) novel from wealthy novelist Alan Conway (Conleth Hill). As she immerses herself in the world of Atticus Pünd, she soon realizes that the intrigue and murder that permeate the book start affecting her real life when Conway mysteriously dies.

Magpie Murders Season 2 is highly anticipated after the success of its first season, with more clever murder mystery twists on the way. The show received rave reviews, scoring a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes for its first six episodes, and its intriguing nature calls for more episodes. The BBC has acquired the series and confirmed a Season 2 titled "Moonflower Murders", with a potential release date in early 202 Returning cast members include Lesley Manville and Timothy McMullen.

After a successful first season, the possibility of a Magpie Murders season 2 is almost a certainty, with more clever murder mystery twists coming on the horizon. Debuting in 2022 and based on the novel by Anthony Horowitz, the series follows editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) as an unfinished manuscript leads her down a path of mystery, intrigue, and murder. Immediately setting itself apart from the usual British murder mystery fare, Magpie Murders presents a meta-narrative that...

‘Magpie Murders’ Indie Options C.M Ewan Novel

Magpie Murders producer Eleventh Hour Films has optioned C.M. Ewan thriller The House Hunt for limited TV. Published today, The House Hunt centers on the story of an everyday young couple, Lucy and Sam, who are selling their recently renovated dream house, but one viewing turns into a nightmare and events spiral beyond their control. “Every writer dreams of finding a great partner for a TV adaptation of their work, and I knew from the first moment that Eleventh Hour Films expressed interest in The House Hunt that they were the perfect team to develop my book with all the vision and flair I could hope for,” said Ewan, who is EPing the adaptation with Paula Cuddy, Eve Gutierrez and Jill Green. No network is attached as of yet. The deal was struck by WME on behalf of the Darley Anderson Literary Agency.

Warning: contains major spoilers for the Magpie Murders finale.

With Magpie Murders, you get double bubble – one investigation in the ‘real’ world as literary editor Susan Ryeland sleuths her way around modern-day Suffolk after the death of one of her authors, plus a 1950s-set dramatisation of that author’s latest detective novel. Both stories are told side by side on screen as actors play dual roles, and Anthony Horowitz’s adaptation of his own novel keeps multiple plates spinning. All that, plus a truly lovely wardrobe worn by the impeccably dressed Lesley Manville in the lead role of Ryeland, and a new instant favourite detective in Tim McMullan’s Poirot-tinged Atticus Pünd. What more could cosy crime fans ask for?

Another series is one thing – a wish that’s already been granted. Expect Moonflower Murders to start filming in Dublin later this year, ready to debut on the BBC...

The big-budget Prime Video global spy series thriller “Citadel” today announced that British actress and Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (most recently a regular on Netflix’s “The Crown” portraying Princess Margaret) has been cast to join Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Richard Madden and Stanley Tucci on the show from Anthony and Joe Russo (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) that will premiere April 28 with a pair of episodes – with a new installment launching each Friday thereafter through May 26. Manville will portray Dahlia Archer, the British Ambassador to the United States.

Co-produced by Amazon Studios and the Russo Brothers’ Agbo, “Citadel” depicts an independent global spy agency tasked to uphold the safety and security of all people that was destroyed eight years before by Manticore, a powerful syndicate manipulating the world from the shadows. With Citadel’s fall, elite agents Mason Kane (Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Jones) had their memories wiped as they narrowly escaped with their lives.

Moonflower Murders is coming to PBS. The network has partnered with BBC and ordered a sequel to the Magpie Murders drama. The Masterpiece series is based on the novel by Anthony Horowitz, who will adapt his work for the six-episode series.

Timothy McMullan and Lesley Manville will return to their lead roles as famous literary detective Atticus Pünd and editor-turned-sleuth Susan Ryeland, respectively. The story follows the pair as they investigate the death of a mystery author.

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Season 3 of Amazon Freevee’s spy thriller series “Alex Rider” is in production in the U.K. and Malta.

Cast members Otto Farrant, Stephen Dillane, Vicky McClure, Brenock O’Connor, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, and Marli Siu return. Joining them are Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”), Shelley Conn (“Bridgerton”), Kevin McNally (“The Crown”) and Jason Wong (“Strangers”).

Produced by Eleventh Hour Films and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television, “Alex Rider” is based on the bestselling book franchise written by Anthony Horowitz, which has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. The series follows Alex, a teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage.

Adapted by Guy Burt from “Scorpia,” the fifth Alex Rider novel, season 3 sets the teenage spy on the trail of his greatest enemy: the elusive criminal network known as Scorpia. Alex embarks on a personal mission to destroy Scorpia once and for all.

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Murder is the name of the game for PBS Masterpiece at today's conference for the Television Critic's Association 2023 Winter Press Tour. After landing a hit with the murder mystery adaptation Magpie Murders starring The Crown's Lesley Manville, a second series is on the way titled Moonflower Murders which adapts the second novel of Anthony Horowitz's Susan Ryeland series. Better yet, Manville will reprise her role as the editor-turned-super sleuth Susan alongside Tim McMullan as the detective Atticus Pünd within the in-universe hit mystery novels.

As part of its Tuesday panel at the Television Critics Association 2023 winter press tour, Masterpiece has announced two new projects including a biographical series about Noele “Nolly” Gordon starring Helena Bonham Carter and “Moonflower Murders,” the follow up project to “Magpie Murders,” are in the works for the network.

“Nolly” tells the story of the British soap opera legend whose unceremonious firing from her hit show at the height of her career was front-page news. As one of the most famous faces on British TV in the 1960s and ’70s, Gordon is described as a woman who refused to play by the rules and ultimately transformed into a forgotten icon after the industry turned on her. Carter will star in the titular role.

“Doctor Who” showrunner Russell T. Davies penned the script. “Nolly” marks the first production from Nicola Shindler’s new production company Quay Street Productions, which is part of ITV Studios.

PBS Masterpiece is on board a series adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders, a follow up to its Magpie Murders adaptation.

The network will co-produce Moonflower Murders with the BBC. It comes after Magpie Murders aired on the U.S. public broadcaster and BritBox last year.

The commission was announced at PBS’ TCA press tour.

The book, which is a sequel to Magpie Murders, takes place after that story and focuses on the disappearance of a hotel employee, using a story-within-a-story device.

Lesley Manville returns as editor turned sleuth Susan Ryeland with Timothy McMullan returning as famous literary detective Atticus Pünd.

The series is produced by Eleventh Hour Films, adapted by Horowitz and exec produced by Jill Green.

More than 5.5M watched Magpie Murders on PBS Masterpiece, which is presented by GBH Boston.

Anthony Horowitz said, “I can’t wait to get started on the scripts of Moonflower Murders.

Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content to catch up on this winter awards season? That’s because you’re not wrong, there is a ton to sift through. As the Golden Globes prepares to reveal their nominations on Monday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has put together a final tally of TV series and motion pictures that were eligible for awards consideration this year — and Variety has those numbers.

According to the HFPA, there were 211 series eligible for best TV drama in 2022, and 127 series in the running for best musical or comedy. In the race for limited series, anthology series or TV movie, there were 121 contenders. (That’s a total of 459 programs.)

On the film side, the most recent tally for best motion picture saw 170 for drama, 83 for musical or comedy, 20 in animated and 115 in the running for non-English language. Add it up, and that’s 388 films.

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One for sorrow, two for joy.

Three for a girl, four for a boy.

Five for silver, six for gold.

Seven for a story yet to be told.

Or, in the case of this “Magpie,” make that two stories yet to be told.

The latest limited series from PBS’s Masterpiece, “Magpie Murders,” may be derived from the popular children’s nursery rhyme, but the way director Peter Cattaneo unfolds the mystery within a mystery in this whodunnit is anything but child’s play.

The story, based on the 2016 novel by Anthony Hororwitz (the first in The Susan Ryeland series), begins when famed author Alan Conway dies shortly after handing in his new manuscript: “Magpie Murders.” The man’s death is suspicious, and the final chapter of his story is missing, setting up a meta mystery within a mystery that’s as much fun to follow as it is to solve.

Who doesn’t love a good whodunit? It feels like murder mysteries are having a bit of a resurgence. Do we have Rian Johnson’s star-studded 2019 film Knives Out to thank for that? Quite possibly. Since then, a number of titles have been filling the murder mystery mold and have done so with varying degrees of success. Some try to be too glamorous and neglect the mystery at hand, others fall a little flat because they only focus on the mystery. Magpie Murders, a new mystery from PBS Masterpiece, strikes a nice balance between intriguing mystery and beautiful backdrop, though Lesley Manville’s performance is what really makes this mystery one worth solving.

“Masterpiece,” the PBS staple behind past series such as “Downton Abbey,” has given a renewal to “Miss Scarlet and the Duke” and revealed the upcoming return date for popular drama “All Creatures Great and Small.” During the “Masterpiece” session at PBS’ second day of Television Critics Association virtual press tour panels, the franchise also revealed two new series: “Mrs. Churchill” and “Magpie Murders.”

“Miss Scarlet and the Duke,” which stars Kate Phillips as the first-ever female detective in Victorian London, will return for a third season on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023 at 8 p.m. Et on PBS. Season 2 of the show is set to premiere on Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. Et.

Alongside “Miss Scarlet and the Duke,” “Masterpiece” has announced that the third season of “All Creatures Great and Small” will air seven episodes beginning Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Based on the bestselling memoirs by veterinarian James Herriot and

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Netflix and Arte’s musical show “Le Monde de Demain” (“The World of Tomorrow”) took the top prize in the International Competition of television festival Series Mania at the event’s awards ceremony Friday.

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Exclusive: Anthony Horowitz believes his upcoming Magpie Murders adaptation is “the first time I’ve really got it right,” and has stated he will no longer write on classic TV murder mysteries.

The renowned UK author has adapted many of his novels for TV including Stormbreaker, The Diamond Brothers and South By South East, but Horowitz thinks PBS Masterpiece/BritBox’s Magpie Murders from Jill Green’s Eleventh Hour Films is a greater achievement.

The six-parter took two years to pen and involved around half a dozen drafts, Horowitz told Deadline, and while the mystery-within-a-mystery format threw up a multitude of challenges, the author said this is “the first time I’ve really got it right.”

“The whole book-within-a-book thing is really difficult,” he explained. “In the book the mysteries happen one at a time whereas in the show I wanted to do them simultaneously and that gave me the...

“The Killing Kind,” the latest novel from best-selling author Jane Casey, has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television-backed Eleventh Hour Films.

The thriller, which is published Thursday by HarperCollins, will be adapted into a limited series by screenwriters Zara Hayes (“Showtrial”) and Jonathan Stewart (“Meet You in Hell”). Hayes will also direct while Casey has signed on as executive producer alongside Eleventh Hour Films’ Jill Green, Eve Gutierrez and Paula Cuddy.

“The Killing Kind” is Casey’s 11th crime novel for adults, and centres around Ingrid Lewis, a London-based criminal barrister whose life is ostensibly destroyed by John Webster, a client she defended against a stalking charge. When one of her colleagues is mown down in an apparent hit and run, Lewis suspects she was the intended victim until Webster turns up at her door claiming only he can protect her from the real killer.

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Distinguished British actor Tim McMullan is playing the role of detective Atticus Pünd in the PBS Masterpiece, BritBox U.K. and Eleventh Hour Films series adaptation of “Magpie Murders,” Anthony Horowitz’s international bestseller.

Previously announced actor Timothy Spall had to step away from the production due to a scheduling clash.

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art trained McMullan’s theater credits include “Anthony and Cleopatra,” “Twelfth Night,” “Man vs Superman,” “Father and Sons” and “The Master and Margarita.” His screen credits include “The Crown” as Robin Woods, Bernard Jenkins in “Brexit” and Sonny in “Patrick Melrose.”

Joining McMullan in the cast is BAFTA-nominated Daniel Mays.

“Magpie Murders” revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, played by Oscar-nominee Lesley Manville (“Phantom Thread”), an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript by bestselling mystery writer Alan Conway, featuring Conway’s detective Atticus Pünd – and has little idea it will change her life.

Timothy Spall has dropped out of PBS/BritBox crime series Magpie Murders due to a scheduling clash and has been replaced by Tim McMullan (The Serpent). White Lines and Code 404 actor Daniel Mays has also joined the cast.

McMullan will star as the clever and complex detective Atticus Pünd in the six-part series about editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville), who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway’s latest novel but has little idea it will change her life.

Magpie Murders is based on Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling novel of the same name, with the author adapting his own work for the screen. The Full Monty helmer Peter Cattaneo has been set as the director. Other cast includes Pippa Haywood (Bodyguard), Michael Maloney (The Crown), and Game Of Thrones star Conleth Hill.

Magpie Murders is an Eleventh Hour Films production for Masterpiece and BritBox UK, with Sony Pictures Television distributing worldwide.

Mr Turner and Summer Of Rockets actor Timothy Spall has joined Lesley Manville to headline PBS/BritBox crime series Magpie Murders, which goes into production next week in Suffolk and Ireland.

The five-time BAFTA nominee will star as the clever and complex detective Atticus Pünd in the six-part series about editor Susan Ryeland (Manville), who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway’s latest novel but has little idea it will change her life.

Magpie Murders is based on Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling novel of the same name, with the author adapting his own work for the screen. The Full Monty helmer Peter Cattaneo has been set as the director.

Magpie Murders is an Eleventh Hour Films production for Masterpiece and BritBox UK, with Sony Pictures Television distributing worldwide. It will premiere next year.

Timothy Spall will star alongside Lesley Manville in the Masterpiece, BritBox UK and Eleventh Hour Films adaptation of “Magpie Murders,” Anthony Horowitz’s international bestseller.

Spall will play detective Atticus Pünd in the mystery-within-a-mystery in “Magpie Murders.” In the story, book editor Susan Ryeland (Manville) sits down to read the latest manuscript written by her popular author, Alan Conway, the writer behind the popular Atticus Pünd mystery series. When she discovers that its final chapter is missing, she goes to Conway’s house only to find his dead body. The story goes back and forth between the cozy case Pünd was trying to crack and Ryeland’s investigation of what happened to Conway.

Horowitz, who created the BBC mystery shows “Foyle’s War” and “Midsomer Murders,” has adapted “Magpie Murders” as a six-episode series. Production begins next week in England and Ireland, and “Magpie Murders” will air on Masterpiece on PBS next year.