EXCLUSIVE: Bookish buzz is constructing. The trailer for the crime drama reveals Mark Gatiss’ character, the bookshop proprietor and sleuth Gabriel Guide, chatting with a London police officer as they survey a criminal offense scene. “Depart nothing out, particularly if it’s salacious, gory, or vaguely scandalous,” Guide tells Scotland Yard’s most interesting.
Bookish is for UKTV within the UK and PBS within the U.S. A raft of latest worldwide offers for the collection have been closed by Beta Movie, which is throughout worldwide gross sales.
Max has snagged Australia rights, and public broadcasters DR, SVT and YLE have taken it for Denmark, Sweden and Finland, respectively. Elsewhere, Filmin has taken Spain and Sony’s AXN White Germany. These come after an earlier spherical of presales, additionally first reported by Deadline.
The present is cozy crime, however with an edge, Gatiss, advised Deadline at a London Screenings preview of Bookish for consumers. Set in post-WW2 London, Gatiss’ Gabriel Guide helps the police clear up their knottiest circumstances. He’s a homosexual man at a time when homosexuality was unlawful, and in a lavender marriage to childhood buddy Trottie, performed by Polly Walker (Bridgerton).
Bookish is far anticipated, not least due to Gatiss’ earlier work, together with Sherlock, Physician Who and The League Of Gents. He wrote and stars within the present, which Eagle Eye produces in affiliation with Pleased Duck Movies.
Within the trailer we additionally see Connor Finch (All the pieces I Know About Love), who Guide recruits as his assistant, Jack, and different solid together with Elliot Levey (Quiz) and Daniel Mays (Rogue One). Visitor stars Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck) and Paul McGann (Withnail And I) additionally present up.
The offers and trailer drop come forward of the present’s premiere this night on the Italian International Collection Competition in Riccione and Rimini, the place it additionally performs in competitors. Gatiss can be in attendance and ship a storytelling masterclass on the inaugural version of IGSF.
