[Brighton] Roy Grace coming to ITV next year

Paskman

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• Dec 19, 2019

• #1

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

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On the Border

• Dec 19, 2019

• #2

Great news

 

vegster

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May 5, 2008

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• Dec 19, 2019

• #3

Paskman said:

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

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• Dec 19, 2019

• #4

just read about it. looks enormously promising.

 

whitelion

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• Dec 19, 2019

• #5

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

I can't put it down.

 

Easy 10

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Jul 5, 2003

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• Dec 19, 2019

• #6

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

 

Lower West Stander

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• Dec 19, 2019

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

Who’s playing Glenn Branson?


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bobbab5

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• Dec 19, 2019

• #8

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

 

catfish

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Worthing

• Dec 19, 2019

• #9

Lower West Stander said:

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

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• Dec 20, 2019

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vegster said:

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

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But who is playing me

 

Wilka

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• Dec 20, 2019

• #11

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

 

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Gwylan

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• Dec 20, 2019

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

 

Is it PotG?

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Sussex by the Sea

• Dec 20, 2019

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Gwylan said:

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

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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.

 

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Gwylan

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• Dec 20, 2019

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Is it PotG? said:

I haven't read the books.

Does it say Grace is a local lad?

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Yes. His dad was a Brighton copper too

 

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darkwolf666

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• Dec 20, 2019

• #15

Gwylan said:

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

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

 

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• Dec 20, 2019

• #16

Not sure that is great casting.

 

Cowfold Seagull

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• Dec 20, 2019

• #17

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.

 

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SAC

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• Dec 20, 2019

• #18

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?

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• Dec 20, 2019

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SAC said:

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.

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Me too

 

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Jul 5, 2003

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• Dec 20, 2019

• #20

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.