The BBC has begun filming on new “case-of-the-week” crime comedy-drama ‘Ludwig‘ starring David Mitchell.
When John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor’s (Mitchell) identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother’s identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts. John has never married, never had a family and never really ventured further than his own front door. Without a computer, mobile phone or even a television, he lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of ‘Ludwig’.
However, filling the shoes of your identical twin is one thing – when your twin also happens to be a successful DCI leading Cambridge’s busy inner-city major crimes team the stakes are much higher. John may be a master of all things cryptic, but can he crack the biggest puzzle of his life?
Joining David Mitchell in the detective comedy-drama is Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland, Line of Duty), as Lucy Betts-Taylor, John’s sister-in-law and wife of his missing brother James.
“I’m delighted to be working in a genre of television that I have loved ever since, at the age of 10, I started watching the Miss Marple adaptations, starring Joan Hickson, with my parents, said Mitchell. “Sometimes the only thing that can bring the whole family together is murder.”
Also joining the cast are Dipo Ola (Landscapers, We Hunt Together), Gerran Howell (Catch-22, Suspicion), Izuka Hoyle (Boiling Point, Big Boys), Dylan Hughes (Malory Towers, Maternal), and Dorothy Atkinson (Mum, The Gold).
The six-episode-hour-long series is a Big Talk Studios in association with That Mitchell And Webb Company production. It is written and created by Mark Brotherhood (‘Mount Pleasant’, ‘Shameless’, Benidorm’), and directed by Robert McKillop (‘Guilt’, ‘Then You Run’) and Jill Robertson (‘The Diplomat’, ‘Pennyworth’).
‘Ludwig’ was commissioned by Jon Petrie, Director of Comedy Commissioning at the BBC. The Executive Producers are Kenton Allen, Mark Brotherhood, Saurabh Kakkar, David Mitchell, Kathryn O’Connor and Chris Sussman, the Producer is Georgie Fallon. The BBC Commissioning Editor is Tanya Qureshi. It is produced in association with ITV Studios, which will distribute the series internationally.
‘Ludwig‘ Season 1 does not yet have a premiere date but will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. If you want to keep track of this or any other show, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
