Dalgliesh - Season 1
New Pictures secured the rights to adapt three of James' novels across six episodes with future seasons outlined. It was announced in October 2020 that Channel 5 and Acorn TV (via Acorn Media Enterprises) had commissioned the series with Bertie Carvel in the titular role and each story having its own cast. A creative team of mostly women would be behind the series, with Helen Edmundson writing, Jill Robertson directing, Georgie Fallon producing, and Elaine Pyke executive producing.[4]
Dalgliesh - Season 1
If the show has another season, it is questionable if Jeremy Irvine will be written in. He will probably be completely replaced by Carlyss Peer. Nothing against Peer, she is an awesome actress. He brought a bit of humor to the bleak murder investigations. The woke scenes will probably toss his role out the window.
P.D. James' novels may not have the iconic status of Agatha Christie, but since she started writing in the late 1950s (and her Adam Dalgliesh novels took off in the early 1960s), her name has been grouped with other female mystery writers of U.K. fame, from Dorothy Sayers to Val McDermid. Her books were initially adapted for television in the early 1980s by ITV and then the BBC (and aired in the states on PBS under the Mystery! banner); however, those concluded a decade before her passing in 2014. Acorn TV and Channel 5's new series is the first since her passing, and its popularity has been strong enough to greenlight two more seasons, the first of which debuts in April 2023.
The deal to create a new adaptation, with Bertie Carvel (The Crown) in the titular role of DI Adam Dalgliesh, was first set into motion in 2019 but ran right into the buzzsaw of the pandemic and not confirmed until October 2020. Filming was further delayed, finally getting underway in 2021, and Season 1 arrived on Channel 5 in late October 2021 and followed on Acorn TV in November. A second season renewal was announced in March 2022, which Channel 5 then upped to a Season 2 and 3 order in July as Season 2 filming got underway.
The series will continue to star Carvel as Dalgliesh, with Carlyss Peer (Grantchester) as his assistant, DS Kate Miskin. Jeremy Irvine's distasteful DS Masterson seems to have exited the program after the first season (at least he does not appear in any of the photos.) It looks like he has been replaced by Alistair Brammer (Les Misérables) as DS Daniel Tarrant, starting in Episode 4. Also, David Pearse (The Banshees of Inisherin) reprises his role as forensic pathologist Miles Kynaston. Helen Edmundson (Belgravia: The Nexxt Chapter) is back as the lead writer on all six episodes, with Stewart Harcourt (Maigret) assisting on "A Certain Justice."
As with Season 1, the second season sees DCI Adam Dalgliesh, a distinguished detectives à la Holmes and Poirot, taking us through 1970s England as he solves unusual murders, including a senior forensic biologist found dead in his lab, an illustrious but controversial defense barrister found deceased in her chambers, and a young doctor being set on fire in the grounds of his family museum.
The new season is based on three more P.D. James novels - Death of an Expert Witness, A Certain Justice and The Murder Room -- with Bertie Carvel (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell) reprising his role as the enigmatic chief investigator.
The novels being adapted for season two are Death Of An Expert Witness, A Certain Justice and The Murder Room. Season three will adapt further James novels and will film in 2023, with additional details to follow.
Acclaimed screenwriter and playwright Helen Edmundson (The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, An Inspector Calls, Small Island) returns as lead writer for the second season, with Stewart Harcourt (Maigret, Hearts and Bones, Treasure Island) also joining the series as writer for A Certain Justice. 041b061a72