{"id":21728,"date":"2024-11-05T10:33:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-sets-new-strike-season-premiere\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:33:12","slug":"bbc-sets-new-strike-season-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-sets-new-strike-season-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Sets New Strike Season Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Strike\u2014The Ink Black Heart<\/em>, the sixth part of <em>Strike<\/em>, an adaptation of J.K. Rowling\u2019s best-selling crimes novels that are published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, has been slated to premiere on BBC in December.<\/p>\n<p>In the new season, the co-creator of the popular cartoon <em>The Ink Black Heart<\/em> shows up frantic at Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott\u2019s 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 <em>The Ink Black Heart<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/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>) reprise their roles as Strike and Ellacott, respectively. The cast also 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>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Strike\u2014The Ink Black Heart<\/em> is directed by Sue Tully, marking her third time working on the series. Her credits include <em>Strike\u2014Troubled 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, and Warner Bros. is selling the show internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike\u2014The Ink Black Heart, the sixth part of Strike, an adaptation of J.K. 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