[Brighton] Roy Grace coming to ITV next year

[Paskman]

Peter James's Brighton based police detective is coming to national TV. Filming is due to start in Brighton early in the New Year. John Simms be playing the lead.

Loved the books, so interested in seeing what scrip writer Russell Lewis ( Endeavour) will do with them. Fingers crossed they don't cock it up, the last TV police drama filmed in the town was dire.

https://www.itv.com/presscentre/pre...ing-john-simm-acclaimed-screenwriter-russell#

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[studio150]

Great news

 

[vegster]

Peter James's Brighton based police detective is coming to national TV. Filming is due to start in Brighton early in the New Year. John Simms be playing the lead.

Loved the books, so interested in seeing what scrip writer Russell Lewis ( Endeavour) will do with them. Fingers crossed they don't cock it up, the last TV police drama filmed in the town was dire.

https://www.itv.com/presscentre/pre...ing-john-simm-acclaimed-screenwriter-russell#

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Wow ! John Simm in the lead role !, should be eminently watchable.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

just read about it. looks enormously promising.

 

[whitelion]

Sister sent me his latest Roy Grace novel "Dead At First Sight" for Xmas.

I can't put it down.

 

[Easy 10]

Great news. Hope they do Dead Mans Footsteps (the 9/11 one). That was a cracking read.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Got start with Dead Simple,just to frame the background.

Who’s playing Glenn Branson?


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[bobbab5]

Good to see them adapting the only one i've actually read. Bloody good story!

 

[catfish]

Got start with Dead Simple,just to frame the background.

Who’s playing Glenn Branson?


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I'll be more interested to see who plays Norman Potting and whether or not they sanitize his character.

 

[Norman Potting]

Wow ! John Simm in the lead role !, should be eminently watchable.

But who is playing me

 

[Wilka]

I presume they aren't going to mess around with the setting and film in Brighton?

 

[Gwylan]

I'm interested to see whether John Simm can do a Brighton accent, not an easy one to do

 

[Is it PotG?]

I'm interested to see whether John Simm can do a Brighton accent, not an easy one to do

I haven't read the books.

Does it say Grace is a local lad?

Whatever the case, won't be as odd as Cillian Murphy's Irish/Brummie/Scouse melange in PB.

 

[Gwylan]

I haven't read the books.

Does it say Grace is a local lad?

Yes. His dad was a Brighton copper too

 

[darkwolf666]

I'm interested to see whether John Simm can do a Brighton accent, not an easy one to do

If Sean Connery can do a Russian submarine captain, I’m sure Simm can pull off a Brighton copper (so to speak)... oh!

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Not sure that is great casting.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

If Russell Lewis's scripts for this series, are anything like as good as the ones he writes/wrote for Endeavour, this sounds really promising.

I do wonder though if this means that there won't be a seventh series of Endeavour, now he seems to have turned his attention from Oxford to Brighton. It will be such a shame if that's the case.

 

[SAC]

I think I gave up the Roy Grace books after the first 12 as they became too formulaic. Will be interesting to see how ITV do with it for the telly, Roy Grace didn't look anything like John Simm in my mind. I imagined him looking more like Paul Whitehouse.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I think I gave up the Roy Grace books after the first 12 as they became too formulaic. Will be interesting to see how ITV do with it for the telly, Roy Grace didn't look anything like John Simm in my mind. I imagined him looking more like Paul Whitehouse.

Me too

 

[Easy 10]

Whenever I was reading the novels, I always pictured Roy Grace as Gene Hunt (Philip Glennister), the DCI in Life on Mars - who played opposite John Simm.

Weird.