Overview

• Channel 5 released a first look and official synopsis for the Canon Clement mystery adaptation, confirming Nick Hicks-Beach as writer and David Moore as director.
• Matthew Lewis leads as Canon Daniel Clement, a rector whose parish is fractured by church modernisation plans before a body is discovered in the church.
• The ensemble features Amit Shah, Amanda Redman, Adam James, Meghan Treadway, Marion Bailey, Tamzin Outhwaite, Francis Magee, Nina Toussaint-White and newcomer Alexander Delamain.
• Production was completed in the West Midlands, with support from the West Midlands Production Fund, according to the announcement coverage.
• Drawn from Reverend Richard Coles’s Sunday Times bestselling debut, the series launches potential for further instalments from the five-book Canon Clement Mysteries.