Emma Thompson, Ruth Wilson to Lead ‘Down Cemetery Road’ Series at Apple Based on Novel by ‘Slow Horses’ Author
variety.comJoe Otterson TV Reporter Apple TV+ has ordered a series adaptation of Mick Herron’s “Down Cemetery Road” with Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson attached to star, Variety has learned.
This is now the second adaptation of Herron’s books to get the series treatment at Apple, with the other being the popular spy series “Slow Horses” starring Gary Oldman.
Morwenna Banks, who is a writer on “Slow Horses,” will serve as lead writer on “Down Cemetery Road.” The official logline of the new series states, “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 that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.” Banks and Thompson are both executive producers on the series, as is Herron.
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