David Tennant will star in a new detective drama for ITV1 called Broadchurch. 

 

The eight-part series, which starts filming this summer, is being produced by Kudos Film and Television and written by Chris Chibnall (Doctor Who and Torchwood).

 

Tennant will play DI Alec Hardy, a newly promoted detective who arrives in a seaside town to investigate the death of a young boy. However, there is friction with a local colleague who believes she should have been handed the case.

 

Broadchurch has been commissioned for ITV1 by Laura Mackie and Sally Haynes. Haynes says:  “Broadchurch tells the story of a small community and the devastating emotional repercussions for everyone caught up in the death of a young boy. It”s not a whodunit or a traditional police drama.”

 

The drama will be filmed on location near Bristol and Dorset.