Filming has begun on David Mitchell’s new six-part BBC One genre-bending detective series ‘Ludwig’, and you can see the first image above.
When John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor’s identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother’s identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts. John has never married, never had a family and never really ventured further than his own front door. Without a computer, mobile phone or even a television, he lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of ‘Ludwig’.
However, filling the shoes of your identical twin is one thing – when your twin also happens to be a successful DCI leading Cambridge’s busy inner-city major crimes team the stakes are much higher. John may be a master of all things cryptic, but can he crack the biggest puzzle of his life?
Mitchell stars John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor alongside Anna Maxwell Martin (‘Motherland’) who plays Lucy Betts-Taylor, John’s sister-in-law and wife of his missing brother James.
David Mitchell says: “I’m delighted to be working in a genre of television that I have loved ever since, at the age of 10, I started watching the Miss Marple adaptations, starring Joan Hickson, with my parents. Sometimes the only thing that can bring the whole family together is murder.”
Also joining the cast are Dipo Ola (‘Landscapers’, ‘We Hunt Together’), Gerran Howell (‘Catch-22’, ‘Suspicion’), Izuka Hoyle (‘Boiling Point’, ‘Big Boys’), Dylan Hughes (‘Malory Towers’, Maternal’), and Dorothy Atkinson (‘Mum’, ‘The Gold’).
‘Ludwig’ is written and created by Mark Brotherhood. The Executive Producers are Kenton Allen, Mark Brotherhood, Saurabh Kakkar, David Mitchell, Kathryn O’Connor and Chris Sussman, the Producer is Georgie Fallon.
An air date for ‘Ludwig’ will be announced at a later date.
