The BBC has announced Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger are set to return in ‘Strike: The Ink Black Heart‘, an adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crime novel written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, co-produced by HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery.
When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott (Grainger) doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.
Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this – and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.
Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike (Burke) become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches them to their limit.
Alongside Burke and Grainger, this season’s cast includes David Westhead (Enola Holmes 2, Bodyguard), Christian McKay (Rivals, Dangerous Liaisons), Emma Fielding (Sanditon, Van der Valk), Tupele Dorgu (The Full Monty, Ridley) and James Nelson-Joyce (Time, Industry) amongst others.
Returning cast includes Ruth Sheen (Unforgotten, It’s A Sin) will return as Pat, Strike’s office manager, Jack Greenlees (The Trial of Cristine Keeler, Payback) as Sam Barclay, Natasha O’Keeffe (Peaky Blinders, The Wheel of Time) as Charlotte, and Caitlin Innes Edwards (Hanna, Black Mirror: Smithereens) as Ilsa.
‘Strike: The Ink Black Heart’ is adapted for the screen by writer Tom Edge (Vigil, You Don’t Know Me) who also adapted previous instalments ‘Troubled Blood’, ‘The Silkworm’, ‘Career of Evil’ and ‘Lethal White’. Sue Tully returns to direct the drama, her third time working on ‘Strike’. Her credits include ‘Strike: Troubled Blood’, ‘Too Close’, ‘Strike: Lethal White’, ‘Line of Duty’, Tin Star’, ‘The A Word’ and ‘The Musketeers’.
Jenny van der Lande (Too Close, You Don’t Know Me) is story producer and Alex Rendell returns as producer. Executive producers are J.K. Rowling (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Strike, The Casual Vacancy), Neil Blair (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Strike, The Casual Vacancy) and Ruth Kenley-Letts (Too Close, Strike, You Don’t Know Me) alongside Nick Lambon for the BBC.
‘Strike: The Ink Black Heart‘ (Season 6) does not yet have a premiere date but will air on BBC One in the UK and HBO in the USA. If you want to keep track of this or any other shows, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when they get a UK premiere date.
