BBC Sets New Strike Season Premiere

Strike—The Ink Black Heart, the sixth part of Strike, an adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crimes novels that are published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, has been slated to premiere on BBC in December.

In the new season, the co-creator of the popular cartoon The Ink Black Heart shows up frantic at Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott’s office because she is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure. Ellacott informs her that the agency is too busy to take on the case, but regrets doing so when, weeks later, she discovers that the cartoon co-creator has been murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

Ellacott and Strike are drawn into a quest to uncover the anonymous online figure who was tormenting the co-creator and are pulled into a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts.

Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Souvenir) and Holliday Grainger (The Capture, Animals) reprise their roles as Strike and Ellacott, respectively. The cast also includes David Westhead (Enola Holmes 2, Bodyguard), Christian McKay (Rivals, Dangerous Liaisons), Emma Fielding (Sanditon, Van der Valk), Tupele Dorgu (The Full Monty, Ridley), James Nelson-Joyce (Time, Industry), Ruth Sheen (Unforgotten, It’s A Sin), Jack Greenlees (The Trial of Cristine Keeler, Payback), Natasha O’Keeffe (Peaky Blinders, The Wheel of Time) and Caitlin Innes Edwards (Hanna, Black Mirror: Smithereens).

Strike—The Ink Black Heart is directed by Sue Tully, marking her third time working on the series. Her credits include Strike—Troubled Blood, Too Close, Strike—Lethal White, Line of Duty, Tin Star, The A Word and The Musketeers.

Strike—The Ink Black Heart is adapted for the screen by writer Tom Edge (Vigil, You Don’t Know Me), who also adapted the previous Strike installments Troubled Blood, The Silkworm, Career of Evil and Lethal White.

HBO holds the North American rights to the series, and Warner Bros. is selling the show internationally.