BBC opens A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
FIRST LOOK: Wednesday star Emma Myers heads the cast of BBC drama A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, which is based on Holly Jackson’s novel of the same name and is due to air later this year.
Five years ago schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh. Case closed. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But smart and single-minded Pip Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure and she’s determined to prove it. If Sal Singh isn’t a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?
Myers and Zain Iqbal play Pip and Ravi, with Anna Maxwell-Martin as Pip’s mum Leanne. The cast also includes Gary Beadle and Mathew Baynton, alongside Asha Banks as Cara, Yali Topol Margalith as Lauren, Jude Morgan-Collie as Connor and Raiko Gohara as Zach
A co-production with ZDFneo in Germany, the six-part series is produced by Moonage Pictures (Bodies). Poppy Cogan is the lead writer and Florence Walker is the producer.
Executive producers are Matthew Read, Matthew Bouch and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures, with Lucy Richer and Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, and Dolly Wells, Holly Jackson and Poppy Cogan. BBC Studios is handling international distribution of the series.
A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder was filmed in the South West of England and will air on BBC Three and iPlayer later this year.
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