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John Simm shines in patchy adaptation
by Adam SweetingMonday, 15 March 2021
We last saw John Simm on ITV in 2018’s Hong Kong-based murder mystery
Strangers, a product from the Jack and Harry Williams script factory which wasted its exotic backdrops with a plot which mooched about in a dispirited fashion before dozing off entirely.
We last saw John Simm on ITV in 2018’s Hong Kong-based murder mystery
Warning: spoilers ahead for Grace episode one
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The opening episode of ITV’s crime drama Grace is claustrophobic viewing, to put it mildly.
Based on the Roy Grace books, the feature-length episode one follows our hero, detective Roy Grace (John Simm), as he races against time to find property developer Michael, who disappeared halfway through his rowdy stag-night.
Michael had off-shore accounts in various tax havens, meaning he could well have got cold feet and decided to run off, leaving his wife-to-be, Ashley, at the altar. But it turns out that something far more sinister is at play.
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“Peter James and ITV have done us proud.” John Simm appears alongside the likes of Richie Campbell as Grace’s police partner detective superintendent Glenn Branson and Rakie Ayola as his superior, assistant chief constable Alison Vosper. Together, the officers must investigate the mysterious disappearance of a successful property developer who went missing during his stag do, days before his wedding. Plush seafront locations featured last night’s 120-minute feature as well as shots from Newhaven and talk of Shoreham Port. The show was filmed in Brighton and Hove last year with city landmarks – including both piers and Hove’s beach huts – playing a starring role in the adaption.
Filming for Endeavour in Oxford If all goes according to plan with filming, it is anticipated that the series will air later this year.” Russell Lewis, who created the Endeavour series, has also adapted the novels of crime writer Peter James for new ITV adaptation Grace, about a detective working in Brighton. Unlike many period dramas, Endeavour has always set the story 50 years prior to the year of broadcast. So a series slated to air in 2021 would have to be set in 1971. One hint that season eight will be the last is the number of episodes Endeavour has run to this point.