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Mark Gatiss On His Next Chapter: ‘Bookish’ Is Cozy Crime With An Edge


Mark Gatiss Channels 'Sherlock' Expertise Into New Series 'Bookish'

He created and stars in the upcoming series as Gabriel Book, an eccentric bookshop owner and expert sleuth who helps the police solve tricky cases. The show has contained stories – one crime plays out over two episodes –and there are lighthearted elements and something comforting about the cluttered antiquarian bookshop, situated in a picture-perfect historic London lane. Its journey to screen came after Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino, from Eagle Eye – the ITV Studios-backed producer that makes the series – approached Gatiss at a party thrown by the UK’s historic TV listings magazine The Radio Times.

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