Overview

• ITV has officially greenlit The Dark, a six-part adaptation of G.R. Halliday’s From the Shadows.
• The series follows DI Monica Kennedy as she hunts a serial killer after a young man’s body is found staged in the Scottish wilderness.
• Playwright Matt Hartley will adapt the screenplay and Gilles Bannier is attached as lead director and executive producer.
• Ben Stephenson’s Poison Pen is producing with executive producers Preethi Mavahalli, Luke Woellhaf and Fern McCauley, and Matt Brown as producer.
• ITV Studios will distribute the series internationally and the source novel’s trilogy structure leaves room for future seasons.