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Inspector Lynley Series In The Works At BritBox International & ‘Wolf Hall’ Producer Playground
An Inspector Lynley series is in the works at BritBox, BBC Studios and Playground, adapting the Elizabeth George novels 15 years after the BBC's show.
More than 15 years on from the closer of the BBC ‘s mid-noughties adaptation, BritBox International, Wolf Hall producer Playground and Salt Films are developing Lynley, a new version, which is being penned by Sherlock writer Steve Thompson and directed by Ed Bazalgette. Leo Suter( Vikings: Valhalla) and Sofia Barclay( Ted Lasso) are leading the adaptation, playing DI Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers, an aristocratic police detective and maverick sergeant from a working class background. Colin Callender’s Playground, meanwhile, is in the midst of readying Masterpiece and the BBC’s Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light, the much-anticipated Hilary Mantel sequel starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and Jonathan Pryce, which will trace the final few years of Thomas Cromwell’s life.
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