Laura Fraser & Ella Maisy Purvis Team For Cop Drama Series ‘Patience’ From Eagle Eye, PBS & Beta Film
deadline.comBreaking Bad star Laura Fraser and Malpractice‘s Ella Maisy Purvis will play a detective duo in six-part drama series Patience from Eagle Eye Drama, PBS Distribution and Beta Film.
Cameras are rolling on Patience in Belgium, with filming set to move to York in the UK later in the spring. PBS Distribution holds all North American rights and the show will launch on PBS, as well as streaming on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel and branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS App.
Fraser will play Detective Bea Metcalf, who forms an unlikely duo with Purvis’ young autistic police archivist, Patience Evans.
Their investigations unfold against the backdrop of the historic city of York. Patience works in the criminal records department of Yorkshire Police, cataloguing and filing the evidence produced during major cases, and is a brilliant, self-taught criminologist with an instinctive eye for crime scenes and a passion for problem-solving.
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