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Kevin McKidd has booked nan lead successful an ITV play arsenic he prepares for life aft Grey’s Anatomy.
The character will beforehand The Only Suspect, a British play from Fremantle’s Red Planet Pictures, adapted by Simon Ashdown from a caller by Louise Candlish.
He is set to leave seasoned aesculapian play Grey’s astatine nan extremity of its 22nd play aft 18 seasons successful May, on pinch Kim Raver.
Set successful a leafy London suburb, The Only Suspect follows Alex and Beth, a devoted mates whose picture-perfect suburban life hides a devastating truth. The communicative switches betwixt nan coming time and 1990s Camden, astatine nan tallness of Cool Britannia and originates successful nan sweltering summertime of 1995 arsenic a man buries a assemblage during a convulsive storm.
Per nan synopsis: “Thirty years later, different heatwave grips a very different world. The abandoned railway way wherever nan assemblage was hidden – moving down Alex and Beth’s thoroughfare – is being transformed into a quality trail, spearheaded by Beth herself. What is simply a triumph for nan neighbourhood alternatively threatens catastrophe for Alex… Because Alex is nan young man who buried nan body.
“Having spent decades surviving nether an assumed name, Alex now faces nan unravelling of everything he has built. As diggers hole to break crushed connected nan very spot wherever his concealed lies, his cautiously constructed life spirals – and he must determine really acold he is consenting to spell to support nan truth buried.”
ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly Hill, and Drama Commissioner Huw Kennair-Jones ordered nan thriller. Fremantle has world distribution rights. The four-part play will beryllium executive produced by Belinda Campbell and Tom Mullens At Red Planet and Hill and Kennair-Jones for ITV. Farren Blackburn is directing and Sumrah Mohammed is producing. Filming will statesman successful London this Spring.
“Working pinch ITV connected The Only Suspect feels for illustration coming location for me,” said McKidd. “As an actor, nan analyzable and multilayered domiciled of Alex is breathtaking to research and I can’t hold to collaborate pinch Farren, nan full squad astatine Red Planet Pictures and an astonishing ensemble of awesome British actors.”
Kennair-Jones added: “Once again, Simon Ashdown has woven a thrilling communicative from Louise Candlish’s bestselling caller that will support nan assemblage connected nan separator of their seats. Brilliantly produced by nan squad astatine Red Planet, The Only Suspect promises to present a gripping communicative afloat of shocking revelations and twists. It promises to beryllium a existent dainty for nan ITV and ITVX audience.”
Red Planet Pictures was besides down ITV play Our House, which was adapted from Louise Candlish’s novel. The bid aired connected ITV successful 2022 and starred Tuppence Middleton, Martin Compston, Rupert Penry-Jones, Weruche Opia, and Buket Komar.
“The Only Suspect is different riveting thriller from nan prolific pen of Louise Candlish and aft nan occurrence of Our House, we’re excited to beryllium moving pinch Simon Ashdown and ITV erstwhile again,” said Mullens. “We’re besides thrilled to person Kevin McKidd starring a superb formed and Farren Blackburn connected committee arsenic head to bring this twisting communicative of a man trying to flight his past, to life.”
Candlish is repped by Luke Speed astatine Insight Management connected behalf of Curtis Brown Group. The Only Suspect is published by Simon & Schuster (UK) and repped by literate supplier Sheila Crowley astatine Curtis Brown.
