{"id":20631,"date":"2024-04-17T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/emma-thompson-ruth-wilson-star-in-new-apple-tv-thriller\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:09:20","slug":"emma-thompson-ruth-wilson-star-in-new-apple-tv-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/emma-thompson-ruth-wilson-star-in-new-apple-tv-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Thompson &#038; Ruth Wilson Star in New Apple TV+ Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple TV+ has ordered an adaptation of Mick Herron\u2019s <em>Down Cemetery Road<\/em>, starring Emma Thompson (<em>Good Luck to You, Leo Grande<\/em>; <em>Sense and Sensibility<\/em>) and Ruth Wilson (<em>Luther<\/em>, <em>The Affair<\/em>, <em>His Dark Materials<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The story begins when a house explodes in an Oxford suburb and a little girl disappears in the aftermath. Her neighbor becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of a private investigator, and the two find themselves in the middle of a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed to be dead are still among the living.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is set to star as private investigator Zo\u00eb Boehm, while Wilson is to play Sarah Tucker, neighbor of the missing girl.<\/p>\n<p>Morwenna Banks (<em>Funny Woman<\/em>, <em>Miss You Already<\/em>, <em>Slow Horses<\/em>) serves as lead writer, and Natalie Bailey (<em>Audrey<\/em>, <em>Bay of Fires<\/em>, <em>Run<\/em>) is attached to direct. Executive producers are Banks, Thompson, Herron and 60Forty Films\u2019 Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta and Tom Nash.<\/p>\n<p><em>Down Cemetery Road<\/em> joins the recently renewed espionage drama <em>Slow Horses<\/em>, based on Mick Herron\u2019s <em>Slough House<\/em> books, on Apple TV+.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Down Cemetery Road<\/em> has all the hallmarks of Mick Herron\u2019s funny and acerbic writing, and I\u2019m delighted we will be bringing it to life for Apple TV+ with such a stellar cast,\u201d said Jay Hunt, creative director for Europe at Apple TV+. \u201cEmma Thompson and Ruth Wilson will make it an unmissable companion piece for <em>Slow Horses<\/em> on our service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple TV+ has ordered an adaptation of Mick Herron\u2019s Down Cemetery Road, starring Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande; Sense and Sensibility) and Ruth Wilson (Luther, The Affair, His Dark Materials).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":20632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3360,8890,2143,8891,8892,8367,8893],"class_list":["post-20631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-apple-tv","tag-down-cemetery-road","tag-emma-thompson","tag-jay-hunt","tag-mick-herron","tag-morwenna-banks","tag-ruth-wilson","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Emma Thompson &amp; 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