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The Welsh Wicker Man: Just like the chilling film, new drama The Red King features a creepy island cult... and a stranded cop in peril


Take the dark murders that play out on the Scottish isles in Shetland, mix in the sinister religious rituals of The Wicker Man, set in the Hebrides, and you'll get something like Alibi's new series The Red King.

Take the dark murders that play out on the desolate Scottish isles in Shetland, mix in the sinister religious rituals of film The Wicker Man, set in the Hebrides, and you'll get something like Alibi's creepy new series The Red King. Much like Edward Woodward's Sgt Howie in The Wicker Man it follows a city cop, who in this case has been dumped on the island as a punishment, only to end up isolated, vulnerable and terrified. On the island of St Jory she meets offkilter locals played by a raft of famous faces including Van Der Valk's Marc Warren, Bridgerton's Adjoa Andoh and Outlander's Mark Lewis Jones.

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