Overview
- BritBox commissions a six-episode contemporary adaptation of Agatha Christie’s detective duo, moving the series into active preproduction.
- BBC Studios will handle international distribution, with Lookout Point producing in association with Agatha Christie Limited.
- Fergus O’Brien is set to direct episodes 1–4 and Ellie Heydon will direct episodes 5–6, with Stella Merz producing.
- Official descriptions cast Antonia Thomas’s Tuppence as a determined actress, Josh Dylan’s Tommy as a meticulous crime writer, and Imelda Staunton’s Aunt Ada as a wry retired private detective.
- Variety characterizes the project as the first contemporary English-language television adaptation of the Tommy and Tuppence material.