Apple TV+ lines up next Mick Herron adaptation with Down Cemetery Road 

Emma Thompson (left) and Ruth Wilson will star in Down Cemetery Road

Apple TV+ has commissioned a series adaptation of British novelist Mick Herron’s Down Cemetery Road, starring Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You) and Ruth Wilson (The Affair).

London-based 60Forty Films is producing the series, which follows a struggling Oxford private eye who becomes obsessed with the whereabouts of a child she believes to have gone missing.

Morwenna Banks (Funny Woman, Miss You Already, Slow Horses) is lead writer and is executive producing alongside Thompson, Herron and 60Forty’s Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta and Tom Nash. Natalie Bailey (Audrey, Bay of Fires) is lead director.

This marks the second time Apple TV+ has adapted one of Herron’s literary properties after the Slough House book series, which was brought to the screen as Slow Horses. The series debuted in early 2022 and was most recently renewed for a fifth season. Banks was also a writer on the show.

“Down Cemetery Road has all the hallmarks of Mick Herron’s funny and acerbic writing, and I’m delighted we will be bringing it to life for Apple TV+ with such a stellar cast,” said Jay Hunt, creative director, Europe, Apple TV+.

“Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson will make it an unmissable companion piece for ‘Slow Horses’ on our service.”