Acorn TV & Paramount’s Channel 5 Set Adaptation Of Richard Coles Book ‘Murder Before Evensong’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Acorn TV, the AMC Networks-owned streamer, and Paramount‘s Channel 5 are co-producing an adaptation of Reverend Richard Coles‘ bestselling book Murder Before Evensong.
Acorn has been developing the series for around two years alongside Sky Studios-backed producer The Lighthouse. The streamer will take U.S.
rights, while Channel 5 will broadcast the drama in the UK. Murder Before Evensong was published in 2022 and introduces Canon Daniel Clement, a rector of Champton who becomes embroiled in a murder case when a cousin to the church’s patron is found stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs.
Canon Daniel Clement has gone on to feature in three other of Coles’ so-called “cozy crime” novels, including Murder at the Monastery and A Death in the Parish.
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