After a house explosion in a quiet suburb shocked by the disappearance of a little girl, her neighbor begins to torment herself with the idea of finding her, ending up asking a private investigator for help. Down Cemetery Road, is the new thriller starring and produced by Oscar winner Emma Thompson, also winner of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy (The Pleasure Is All Mine, Sense and Sensibility), who plays Zoë Boehm, a private investigator from Oxford in difficulty. Apple TV+ announces where the series will be distributed. The series is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mick Herron, taken from the Oxford series. Alongside Thompson, the winner of two Golden Globes and an Olivier Award, Ruth Wilson (Luther, The Affair, His Dark Materials – These His Dark Materials) as Sarah Tucker, a woman who becomes obsessed with the fate of a little girl she believes is missing. Morwenna Banks (Funny Woman, Miss You Already, Slow Horses) is screenwriter and executive producer. ‘Down Cemetery Road’ has all the hallmarks of Mick Herron’s funny, biting writing and I’m delighted we’ll be bringing it to life for Apple TV+ with a stellar cast,” said Jay Hunt, Creative Director of Apple TV+ Europe. When a house explodes in a quiet suburb of Oxford and a little girl disappears, neighbor Sarah Tucker becomes tormented by the idea of finding her, to the point of asking private investigator Zoë Boehm for help. Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves embroiled in a complex intrigue that reveals that people long thought dead are still among the living, while the living are rapidly joining the dead. The series is executive produced by Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta and Tom Nash of 60Forty Films, along with executive producers Morwenna Banks, Emma Thompson and “Down Cemetery Road” writer Mick Herron. Natalie Bailey (“Audrey”, “Bay of Fires”, “Run”) is the main director of the series. “Down Cemetery Road” joins “Slow Horses,” the multi-BAFTA-nominated spy dramedy starring Oscar© winner Gary Oldman, recently renewed for a new season of which Banks also wrote, based on the celebrated book series by Mick Herron “Slough House”. Born in London in 1959, Emma Thompson has a thirty-year career behind her. And five Oscar nominations. She took the statuette home for “Howard House”, a film that also earned her the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama, but she also won the coveted statuette as a screenwriter for Sense and Sensibility, it will be in fact she adapted Jane Austen’s novel for the film version directed by Ang Lee, for which she was also nominated as an actress, but there are many awards that – since her debut – she has obtained. Her golden year? 1993. When she, fresh from the success of ‘Howard House’ alongside Anthony Hopkins, starred in “Much Ado About Nothing”, ‘In the Name of the Father’ and ‘The Remains of the Day’. On the private front, Thompson married the actor and director Kenneth Branagh in 1989, who however cheated on her with Helena Bonham Carter; in 2003 she got married to Greg Wise, whom she met on the set of Sense and Sensibility (he played the role of Willoughby), father of her daughter Gaia. The two often like to spend long periods in Venice, a city of which they are honorary citizens. In 2022 she is the protagonist of The Pleasure is All Mine by Sophie Hyde and What’s Love? by Shekhar Kapur. Emma Thompson is one of the most talented English actresses, capable of moving from the comic to the dramatic register with great naturalness, and she has always been able to choose auteur films,
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