Towards Zero (TV series)

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Towards Zero
Genre Whodunnit
Created by Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
Screenplay byRachel Bennette
Directed bySam Yates
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes3
Production
Executive producers
  • Rachel Bennette
  • James Prichard
  • Damien Timmer
  • Sheena Bucktowonsing
  • Reemah Sakaan
  • Stephen Nye
  • Robert Schildhouse
Production company
Original release
Network BBC One

Towards Zero is an upcoming BBC One television series. It is an adaptation by Rachel Bennette of the 1944 novel Towards Zero by Agatha Christie.

Contents

Premise

The three-part series concerns a murder mystery surrounding a recently divorced British tennis player holidaying at his aristocratic aunt's house on the south coast of England in the 1930s. [1]

Cast

Production

The Agatha Christie novel of the same name is adapted by Rachel Bennette who is also an executive producer. Executive producers are James Prichard for Agatha Christie Limited are Damien Timmer and Sheena Bucktowonsing for Mammoth Screen, Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, and Reemah Sakaan, Stephen Nye, and Robert Schildhouse for BritBox International. [2] The series is directed by Sam Yates. [3]

In June 2024 Anjelica Huston, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ella Lily Hyland , Mimi Keene, Jackie Clune, Grace Doherty, Jack Farthing, Clarke Peters, Matthew Rhys and Anjana Vasan were announced in the cast. [4]

Filming began in the summer of 2024 in Bristol and Devon. [5]

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References

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