The latest in the run centres on a religious cult

Filming is underway on a new series of Strike, starring Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger.

Strike – The Running Grave centres on a well-to-do family who enlists Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott to gather evidence against a religious cult that has indoctrinated their estranged son Will and siphoned off his trust fund.

The 5 x 60’ run is written by Tom Edge, based on the crime novels by JS Rowling penned under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is produced by Bronte Film and TV for the BBC as a co-production with HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Alex Rendell returns as producer; the executive producers are Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts alongside Nick Lambon for the BBC. Sue Tully returns to direct Strike – The Running Grave, her fourth time working on the detective drama.

Ruth Sheen will return as Pat, Strike’s office manager, alongside fellow returning cast members Jack Greenlees as Sam Barclay, Tupele Dorgu as Midge, Natasha O’Keeffe as Charlotte, Sarah Sweeney as Lucy, Ben Crompton as Shanker, Stephen Hagan as DCI Richard Murphy, and Caitlin Innes Edwards as Ilsa.