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Gray’s Anatomy Kevin McKidd will star in a new thriller on ITV. The only suspectquoted from Trigger pointSimon Ashdown from the novel by Louise Candlish.
It’s the first round for the Scot after-ashen’s, in which he served as director and cast member. McKidd joined the long-running medical drama in 2008 and confirmed his departure only last month.
Produced by Red Planet Pictures, a Fremantle company, the series is set in a leafy London suburb, and follows devoted couple Alex and Beth, whose picture-perfect lives hide a devastating reality. “Jumping between present-day Camden and the mid-1990s – in the heyday of Britannia’s fantastic – the story begins during the hot summer of 1995, when a young man buries a body during a violent storm,” the plot synopsis says.
He continues: “30 years later, another heat wave sweeps through a very different world. The abandoned railroad track where the body was hidden, which runs behind Alex and Beth’s street, turns into a nature trail, led by Beth herself. What is a triumph for the neighborhood instead threatens disaster for Alex. Because Alex is the young man who buried the body.”
The only suspect It is said to explore obsession, deception, betrayal, the consequences of youthful recklessness, and the secrets that refuse to stay hidden.
McKidd, also known as Discover trainssaid the project feels like “coming home.” He continued: “As an actor, it’s exciting to explore the complex and multi-layered role Alex plays and I can’t wait to collaborate with Farren, the whole team at Red Planet Pictures and an amazing group of great British actors.”
The four-part drama will be produced by Belinda Campbell and Tom Mullins on behalf of Red Planet Pictures, and Polly Hill and Hugh Kinnear-Jones for ITV.
The series will be distributed internationally by Fremantle, with filming set to begin in London this spring.
