It’s National Puzzle Day today, and BritBox is helping us celebrate it by dropping the trailer for its clever comedy whodunit series, Ludwig. Check it out!

Like many of you, I cannot wait for Ludwig to arrive on this side of the pond!
Recently nominated for Best TV Comedy Drama by Comedy.co.uk Awards 2024 and for Best Comedy Programme by Broadcast Awards 2025, the humorous mystery series broke viewership records in the UK, with more than 9.5 million viewers, and is confirmed for a second season.
Ludwig stars David Mitchell (Peep Show) as John “Ludwig” Taylor, a reclusive puzzle setter whose life of solitude is turned upside down when his identical twin brother, James, disappears without a trace. In a quest to track down James and bring him home, Ludwig assumes his brother’s identity. But by taking over every aspect of James’s life, Ludwig is forced to confront his own issues.
Unlike Ludwig, James is no hermit. Far from it, in fact. James is a family man, married to Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin, Line of Duty), and a successful detective chief inspector with the major crimes team of the Cambridge Police.
For Ludwig, these are big shoes to fill, and playing dad to a ready-made family proves every bit as challenging as tackling the grisliest of crime scenes. But Ludwig has one big advantage: his ability to see the world in puzzle form.
Can this master of all things cryptic crack his biggest puzzle yet?
Ludwig, a BritBox Original, premieres in North America with two episodes on Thursday, March 20, exclusively on BritBox. New episodes will drop weekly through the Season 1 finale on April 17.
The cast also includes Dipo Ola (Landscapers), Dorothy Atkinson (Stonehouse), Gerran Howell (1917), Izuka Hoyle (The Responder), Ralph Ineson (The Jetty), Karl Pilkington (Sick of It), and Derek Jacobi (Inside No. 9).
A production of Big Talk in association with That Mitchell And Webb Company for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, the series was commissioned by Jon Petrie, Director of Comedy Commissioning at the BBC, and created and written by Mark Brotherhood. The executive producers are Kenton Allen, Mark Brotherhood, Saurabh Kakkar, David Mitchell, Kathryn O’Connor, and Chris Sussman, with Georgie Fallon as producer. The directors are Robert McKillop and Jill Robertson. The BBC Commissioning Editor is Tanya Qureshi. It is co-produced in association with BritBox International, with ITV Studios distributing the series internationally.
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