ITV has commissioned a new six-part murder mystery thriller “Loch Ness,” starring “Breaking Bad” thesp Laura Fraser, Variety reports.
The Scotland-set drama, which is penned by “Fortitude” scribe Stephen Brady, “Follows the story of local detective Annie who is search for a serial killer in a community nourished and sustained by myth. When the body of a local man is found at the foot of the Carn Mohr Mountain and an isolated human heart on the loch shore, the town’s normality is shattered and the nightmare begins.”
“Loch Ness” also stars Siobhan Finneran (“Happy Valley”) and John Sessions (“Florence Foster Jenkins”) alongside Don Gilet (“Holby City”), Gray O’Brien (“The Daniel Connection”) and William Ash (“The Tunnel”).
The program, overseen by ITV Studios creative director for drama and executive producer Tim Haines (“Beowulf”), began lensing in June in the Scottish Highlands and received £200,000 ($258,135) in funding from Creative Scotland’s Production Growth Fund.
Alan J Wands (“Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell”) will produce alongside exec producer Tim Haines with Brian Kelly (“Downton Abbey”) as lead director.
Cilla Ware (“Double Act,” “The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle”) will also direct the series, which was commissioned by ITV controller of drama Victoria Fea and head of drama series Jane Hudson.
“Serial killers are monsters that lie beneath the surface of normal happy communities,” said Haines in a statement. “Where better to hunt for one than in a place that has thrived off its own monster myth for centuries – Loch Ness.”
ITV Studios Global Entertainment will distribute “Loch Ness” internationally.