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Channel 5 Greenlights Cooper and Fry, a Four-Part Peak District Detective Drama

Channel 5’s commission underscores its drive to build regionally rooted crime dramas based on best-selling novels.

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Overview

  • The network has officially commissioned Cooper and Fry, adapting Stephen Booth’s bestselling detective series for television.
  • The drama will span four two-hour episodes adapting Booth’s early novels, including Black Dog, Dying to Sin, Blind to the Bones and Dancing with the Virgins.
  • Robert James-Collier will star as affable local detective Ben Cooper, while Mandip Gill plays guarded newcomer Diane Fry.
  • Set in the Peak District, the storyline follows the mismatched duo as they investigate a string of mysterious deaths that draw their personal lives together.
  • Production is slated to begin with no public release date announced yet.