David Suchet will go from hunter to hunted in Ludwig‘s newly introduced Christmas particular, with the famed Poirot actor set to play a homicide suspect.
David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin, who lead the cosy crime sequence for the BBC and BritBox, will return, alongside co-stars Jason Flemyng, Joe Wilkinson, Cathy Tyson, Alexandra Roach and Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
With sequence two of the Emmy-winning Ludwig presently airing to nice success on BBC iPlayer and BBC One — and with sequence three now in manufacturing — the Christmas particular comes as welcome information to followers of Mark Brotherhood’s present.
Suchet, the English star behind considered one of tv’s most well-known detectives in Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989-2013), joined Mitchell for a festive picture op, launched on Wednesday to have fun the announcement.
Set in Yorkshire, the hour-long Christmas episode 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 lower off from the surface world, the company should spend the night time with a killer of their midst. With John reluctantly pulled into considered one of his strangest puzzles but, the race is on for the Taylors to resolve the crime.
“It was an absolute pleasure to work alongside David Mitchell and the wonderful ensemble cast,” stated Suchet about becoming a member of the particular. “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,” he added.
Actor-comedian Mitchell, identified for Peep Show and varied British panel present appearances, stated he has watched each episode of Suchet’s Poirot a number of occasions. “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.”
The smash hit detective sequence 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.
The Ludwig Christmas episode is written by Mark Brotherhood, and the director is Chris Foggin, who can also be presently directing sequence 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 international distribution.