{"id":20161,"date":"2024-02-14T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbcs-strike-returning-for-sixth-season\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:24:51","slug":"bbcs-strike-returning-for-sixth-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbcs-strike-returning-for-sixth-season\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC\u2019s Strike Returning for Sixth Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC\u2019s <em>Strike<\/em>, based on J.K. Rowling\u2019s crime novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, is returning for a sixth season, titled <em>Strike\u2014The Ink Black Heart<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Burke (<em>Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/em>, <em>The Souvenir<\/em>) and Holliday Grainger (<em>The Capture<\/em>, <em>Animals<\/em>) are reprising their roles as Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, respectively. The new season sees the co-creator of a popular cartoon frantically show up at Strike\u2019s office because she is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure and desperately wants to uncover their identity.<\/p>\n<p>Ellacott decides that their agency cannot help with the problem and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she learns that the cartoon co-creator has been tasered and murdered in the location of the cartoon. Strike and Ellacott are then drawn into the quest to uncover the online figure\u2019s true identity.<\/p>\n<p>The cast of season two includes David Westhead (<em>Enola Holmes 2<\/em>, <em>Bodyguard<\/em>), Christian McKay (<em>Rivals<\/em>, <em>Dangerous Liaisons<\/em>), Emma Fielding (<em>Sanditon<\/em>, <em>Van der Valk<\/em>), Tupele Dorgu (<em>The Full Monty<\/em>, <em>Ridley<\/em>), James Nelson-Joyce (<em>Time<\/em>, <em>Industry<\/em>), Ruth Sheen (<em>Unforgotten<\/em>, <em>It\u2019s a Sin<\/em>), Jack Greenlees (<em>The Trial of Cristine Keeler<\/em>, <em>Payback<\/em>), Natasha O\u2019Keeffe (<em>Peaky Blinders<\/em>, <em>The Wheel of Time<\/em>) and Caitlin Innes Edwards (<em>Hanna<\/em>, <em>Black Mirror: Smithereens<\/em>), among others.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Tully returns to direct the new season, marking her third time working on <em>Strike<\/em>. Her credits include <em>Strike\u2014The Troubled Blood<\/em>, <em>Too Close<\/em>, <em>Strike\u2014Lethal White<\/em>, <em>Line of Duty<\/em>, <em>Tin Star<\/em>, <em>The A Word<\/em> and<em> The Musketeers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Strike\u2014The Ink Black Heart<\/em> is adapted for the screen by writer Tom Edge (<em>Vigil<\/em>, <em>You Don\u2019t Know Me<\/em>), who also adapted the previous <em>Strike<\/em> installments <em>Troubled Blood<\/em>, <em>The Silkworm<\/em>, <em>Career of Evil<\/em> and <em>Lethal White<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>HBO holds the North American rights to the series. Warner Bros. Discovery is handling international distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC\u2019s Strike, based on J.K. 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