BBC reveals launch date for Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s anthology
The BBC has confirmed the return date for Inside No 9.
Series six of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s anthology will start on BBC Two at 9.30pm on May 10, the corporation has announced today.
The show will be followed by the return of Motherland for its third season, with Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready, Lucy Punch and Tanya Moodie all returning to the school gates.
The opening episode of Inside No 9, Wuthering Heist, pictured, is a combination of heist drama and commedia dell’arte, with a masked gang of double-crossing clowns trying to steal a £12million diamond hail.
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Post Mortem.
The Tower.
Gentleman Jack,
The End of the F ing World and
Game of Thrones, is on board to play Sarah Collins in the three-part series, a detective sergeant who is tasked with finding a missing rookie police officer named Lizzie Griffiths. Sid Gentle/BBCBBC
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It s believed that Lizzie, along with a 4-year-old boy, witnessed the deaths of a veteran beat cop and a teenage girl who had fallen off of a block of flats in South-East London and Sarah must get to the bottom of it all.
Published Apr 20, 2021Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have repeatedly knocked it out of the park with their
Inside No. 9, offering up some of the best dark comedy the UK has to offer. So it s good news indeed that at long last Series 6 (or Season 6 if you prefer) is soon headed our way, and we now have our first trailer.
Today, Pemberton and Shearsmith shared a brief trailer for the latest instalment of their anthology series, and it s a lot to unpack. In a blazing 30 seconds, we re hit with a ton of rapid-fire clips, including many of the upcoming season s special guest stars.
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Handout photo issued by EE of Gemma Whelan at The Savoy, London, for the jury meeting to decide the five nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award 2020.
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Gemma Whelan
Game Of Thrones star Gemma Whelan will star in a three-part police drama from the writer of Homeland.
ITV s The Tower, based on Post Mortem, the first book in author Kate London’s Metropolitan series, will feature Whelan as Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins.
She is charged with investigating after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof.
Within hours, both have gone missing and Collins sets out in search of them, while trying to uncover the truth behind the deadly fall.