Overview

• The six-part series premiered on U&Alibi on July 16 with weekly double bills each Wednesday evening.
• All episodes are currently available to stream on Sky, Virgin, BT and TalkTalk in the UK.
• Mark Gatiss stars as Gabriel Book, an antiquarian bookseller who uses a mysterious Churchill letter and his encyclopedic library to solve three two-part poisoning cases.
• The show explores postwar themes of LGBTQ+ concealment through Book’s lavender marriage to Trottie and the rebuilding of community in 1946 London.
• U&Alibi renewed the drama for a second season in May, with filming set to begin in summer 2025.