Genre: | Whodunnit |
Creator: | Towards Zero by Agatha Christie |
Screenplay: | Rachel Bennette |
Director: | Sam Yates |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Num Series: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 3 |
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.
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]
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]