Apple TV+ announced today the global premiere date for Down Cemetery Road, a new thriller series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson.
There are a few reasons to add Down Cemetery Road to your autumn watchlist — not the least of which are the series’ two lead actors: two-time Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson (Howards End, Sense and Sensibility) and Golden Globe Award winner Ruth Wilson (The Affair, Mrs. Wilson).
The source material makes three. The novel Down Cemetery Road (affiliate link) is the first book in the “Zoë Boehm” series of thrillers by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author Mick Herron, as well as his debut novel. Several of Herron’s “Slough House” novels have been adapted for the hit series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman, so hopefully this new series will fare equally as well with audiences. (By the way, Slow Horses was recently renewed for a seventh season, and its fifth season will premiere on September 24.)
In Down Cemetery Road, when a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbor Sarah Tucker (Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Thompson). Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals people long-believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
Down Cemetery Road, an Apple TV+ Original, premieres globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, October 29, exclusively on Apple TV+. New episodes will drop every Wednesday through December 10.
A production of 60Forty Films, the eight-episode thriller is written by Morwenna Banks (Slow Horses), who also serves as executive producer alongside Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, and Tom Nash at 60Forty Films, Emma Thompson, and Mick Herron. Natalie Bailey (Bay of Fires) serves as lead director for the series.
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Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron
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