BBC One Continues Strike Franchise with Lethal White

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger are set to return for a new four-part BBC One drama in the Cormoran Strike series, based on J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crime novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Lethal White is a thriller that has just been published in the U.K. and is already a number one bestseller. Burke returns as Cormoran Strike and Grainger as Robin Ellacott.

Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling, Strike: The Silkworm and Strike: Career of Evil have aired on BBC One and each series was watched by more than 7 million viewers in the U.K. alone.

Piers Wenger, controller of BBC Drama, said: “We are delighted to announce that the Strike series will return to BBC One with Lethal White. J.K. Rowling, once more in the guise of Robert Galbraith, has delivered another brilliant, knotty and original crime story. We are honored to be working with Jo and once more with Holliday and Tom as Robin and Strike, to bring this hit series back to BBC One.”