Paramount+ may have culled a raft of international originals last month but UK commissioning appears to be continuing apace.
The streamer has given the green light to The Crow Girl from Buccaneer Media, the producer that saw another of its shows, The Doll Factory, ditched by the platform last month.
Starring Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly and Dougray Scott, The Crow Girl is adapted from the Erik Axl Sund novel and begins with the gruesome discovery of a teenage boy’s body discarded in plain sight.
Determined to find who is responsible, DCI Jeanette Kirkland (Myles: Hijack, Broadchurch, A Very English Scandal) joins forces with psychotherapist Sophia Craven (Kelly: Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Liar, Inside No.9) to hunt the killer, despite opposition from her superiors including confidant DI Lou Stanley (Scott: Irvine Welsh’s Crime, Vigil).
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