Looking Good Dead: Volume 2 (Roy Grace)

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Learning that Tom has made a statement to Grace’s team, the killers have to act. But when they plan the murder of the Bryce family, it’s not just revenge – it’s entertainment. In LOOKING GOOD DEAD Grace has a love interest and starts to wonder how he can move his life along again. But you can guarantee, without giving anything away, that it won’t be plain sailing and will leave enough loops open for the next in the series. First pictures of Grace filming on location, 16 September 2020". Brighton & Hove News . Retrieved 7 March 2021. Peter James happens to be my second favourite author, after the queen that is Val McDermid of course. So I was ecstatic to learn his second novel in the Roy Grace series has been adapted into a stage play.

Following strong viewing figures for the opening episode, a second series of three films was then commissioned in 2021, with broadcasting beginning in May 2022. [5] A third series was subsequently commissioned in 2022, with filming beginning in August 2022 and broadcasting starting in March 2023. [6] Production [ edit ] John Simm: from Life on Mars to death in Brighton, 6 March 2021". The Times . Retrieved 7 March 2021.Grace, the adaptation of the Roy Grace novels, premiered on ITV in March 2021 to widespread critical acclaim, and with 8.8m viewers making it instantly one of the most successful TV dramas of 2021. A second series commissioned, which will broadcast in 2022. The series stars John Simm as Roy Grace and Richie Campbell as Glenn Branson. Peter is an executive producer on the series. A third series was subsequently commissioned in May 2022, adapted from the novels Dead Like You, Dead Man's Grip and Not Dead Yet. For this series, Russell Lewis stepped down as showrunner and principal writer, with former Whitechapel writers Ben Court & Caroline Ip penning two episodes, and prolific screenwriter Ed Whitmore penning the other. The series also features Sam Hoare as a new ACC, following the departure of Rakie Ayola at the end of series two. [14] Daily Express James dreams up a horrific intersection of extreme perversion and Internet technology in his frightening, expertly constructed second Det. Supt. Roy Grace novel . . . the rapid-fire suspense builds to a terrifying, graphic conclusion that leaves tantalizing room for future installments in the series

John Simm to star in adaptation of Peter James' Grace for ITV, 19 December 2021". Radio Times . Retrieved 6 March 2021. A group of friends on a stag night are involved in a road accident and are killed except the groom, a wealthy Brighton property developer who has vanished. Detective Superintendent Grace is called upon by colleague Detective Sergeant Branson to help. The search and investigation uncover lines of inquiry which involve his bride and his best friend and business partner.

Unfortunately, as is likely the case with any crime story which makes its way to the stage, any character introduced to the audience is likely to have a significant part to play in the rest of the show. So, when American investor Jonas Kent (Ian Houghton) offers Bryce a solution to his cash flow problems, the convenience of it all is so obvious and stark – like a lot of this production – that the idea that he isn’t involved in the criminal deeds is extremely hard to believe.

TV and film include The Crooked Man, Like Father Like Son, Great West End Theatres, three series of Heartbeat, Doctors and in development, Agent 160 and Oscar’s Boys. Film includes Boxing Day (Boxing Day Productions), Gold (Bollywood feature – Eros International), A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life (Forward Motion Pictures). Eighteen million people across the globe are familiar with the character of crime writer Peter James’ Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace: a complex man haunted by the disappearance of his own wife, now hell-bent on solving seemingly unsolvable murders and wrongdoings on his own East Sussex coast beat. James penned 18 books in the Roy Grace series, and both the first ( Dead Simple, 2005) and this one, the second in line published in 2006, have been adapted into feature-length films for ITV in the popular Grace series of crime dramas. The journey of popular contemporary fictional detective flitting from book to TV screen to stage can be a complicated case to follow. Some do it with skill, flair and aplomb ( Inspector Montalbano; Grantchester; Vera; et al), others take the ‘two out of three ain’t bad’ route (the 2016 film version of British writer Paula Hawkins’ edgy 2015 psychological thriller The Girl on the Train was pretty much universally panned, but the 2018 stage adaptation was a theatre-world hit) and several deserved to die a horrible, lonely death (Dan Brown’s 2003 epic mystery thriller The Da Vinci Code, for example, was a huge, highly acclaimed lit-hit, but the 2006 film version tops multiple ‘worst book-to-film adaptation’ charts; watch this space for a forensic examination of the stage version, coming to Theatre Royal Bath early next year). And my point, your honour, is….? Overall, Looking Good Dead feels a little more lighthearted than I’m guessing James intended it to be, and a bit more school-play than you’d want from a serious thriller. When the serious thrills within the tale are allowed to come to the fore, they look good indeed; elsewhere, though, the production tends to overdo the Scooby-Doo in terms of inspiration for breathing theatrical life into this menacing drama.Roy Grace (Harry Long) was as tall and calm as I imagined with a strong sense of authority. His colleague and best mate Glenn Branson (Leon Stewart) brought the humour we love him for but maybe I was expecting more energetic charm. And Bella Moy (Gemma Stroyan) balanced the hard kindness with ease. Film includes Daniel in Limit of the Land, Danny in Love Does Grow on Trees, Robert in Cheerful Weather for the Wedding. Theatre includes The House On Cold Hill (National Tour) Nell Gwynn (Shakespeare’s Globe and Tour); Not Moses (Arts Theatre); Catalina (Oval House); Still I Pray (St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Barbican); The Colour of Justice (The National Theatre and Tour); Work Life (Toucan Theatre); Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet (Toucan Theatre)