Acorn TV and Channel 5 announced today their commission of Murder Before Evensong, a brand-new murder mystery series that will star Matthew Lewis.
Murder Before Evensong is based on the eponymous novel by the Reverend Richard Coles, the first title in his Sunday Times best-selling series of “Canon Clement Mysteries” books.
Matthew Lewis, better known as Neville Longbottom in the “Harry Potter” film series, will star in the six-episode drama as Canon Daniel Clement, who shares Champton rectory with his widowed mother, the opinionated, fearless, and ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey, and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.
When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided. As lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village. And then Anthony Bowness, cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton, is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs.
As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together… and catch a killer.
Murder Before Evensong will be adapted by Nick Hicks-Beach (Lewis, DCI Banks, Midsomer Murders) and directed by David Moore (Fool Me Once, Outlander, Shetland, Marple).
Executive Producers are the Reverend Richard Coles and Radford Neville for The Lighthouse, Catherine Mackin and Don Klees for Acorn TV/Acorn Media Enterprises, and Paul Testar, Commissioning Editor, Drama, Channel 5.
Further casting announcements will be made in due course.
The series will begin filming in 2025 in the West Midlands with support from the West Midlands Production Fund, and is due to air later in the year on Acorn TV worldwide and Channel 5 in the UK. Acorn TV maintains worldwide rights to Murder Before Evensong outside of the UK, with AMC Networks handling global content sales.
Stay tuned for updates.
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Murder Before Evensong: A Canon Clement Mystery by The Reverend Richard Coles
Canon Clement Mysteries by The Reverend Richard Coles
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