David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin are joined by an all-star forged in a Ludwig Christmas special, together with Sir David Suchet, Jason Flemyng, Joe Wilkinson, Cathy Tyson, Alexandra Roach and Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
With collection two of the International Emmy Award-winning detective collection Ludwig at the moment airing to nice success on BBC iPlayer and BBC One, and with collection three now in manufacturing, the has BBC introduced a Ludwig Christmas special for this coming festive season.
It will see the actor behind one in every of tv’s most well-known detectives, Hercule Poirot, having the tables turned, with Sir David Suchet taking over the function of a homicide suspect on this Christmas episode.
The smash hit detective collection is created and written by Mark Brotherhood, and produced by Big Talk Studios (a part of ITV Studios) in collaboration with That Mitchell and Webb Company, in co-production with BritBox and ZDF.
David Mitchell (John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor), Anna Maxwell Martin (Lucy Betts-Taylor), Dylan Hughes (Henry Betts-Taylor), and Dipo Ola (DCI Russell Carter) are joined within the Christmas special by a stellar line-up of visitor stars: Sir David Suchet, Jason Flemyng, Joe Wilkinson, Cathy Tyson, Alexandra Roach, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Rebekah Staton, Claire Price, Ariella Glaser, and George Rainsford.
Set in Yorkshire, the Christmas episode (1×60) sees John, Lucy and Henry arrive at a distant Christmas themed resort for what ought to have been a much-needed escape, when a sudden blackout turns the festivities right into a locked-room homicide thriller. Trapped by a blizzard and minimize off from the skin world, the friends should spend the night time with a killer of their midst. With John reluctantly pulled into one in every of his strangest puzzles but, the race is on for the Taylors to unravel the crime earlier than Christmas.
On working with Sir David Suchet, David Mitchell stated: “I have long been a huge admirer of Sir David Suchet’s work and have watched every episode of Poirot several times, so it was a dream come true for me when he agreed to appear in the Ludwig Christmas Special. He was an absolute joy to work and spend time with – funny, interesting and generous – and his performance in the programme is wonderful.”
Sir David Suchet says: “It was an absolute pleasure to work alongside David Mitchell and the wonderful ensemble cast. It made quite the refreshing change to be playing a suspect rather than the detective, and to sit comfortably in my armchair while David delivered the denouement. I had a thoroughly enjoyable time.”
Ludwig is a Big Talk Studios manufacturing in affiliation with That Mitchell And Webb Company, in co-production with BritBox and ZDF, for the BBC. The Ludwig Christmas episode is written by Mark Brotherhood, and the director is Chris Foggin, who can be at the moment directing collection three of Ludwig. The government producers are Kenton Allen and Toby Welch for Big Talk Studios, Mark Brotherhood, David Mitchell, Kathryn O’Connor and Chris Sussman; Robert Schildhouse and Stephen Nye for BritBox; Claus Wunn and Frank Seyberth government produce for ZDF. The producer of the Christmas episode is Georgie Fallon, with Anya Wilson serving as co-producer. The Christmas episode was commissioned by Jon Petrie, BBC Director of Comedy Commissioning*. The commissioning editor for the BBC is Gregor Sharp. Ludwig is produced in affiliation with ITV Studios, which additionally handles worldwide distribution.
Episodes 1-3 of Ludwig Series 2 are at the moment out there on BBC iPlayer, episodes 4-6 can be out there from Thursday 10 September. Episodes are going out weekly on BBC One, Thursdays, 9pm. The Ludwig Christmas episode kinds a part of the Ludwig collection 2 fee.
*The Ludwig Christmas special was commissioned previous to Jon Petrie, the previous BBC Director of Comedy, confirming his new place at Hat Trick Productions.
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