Strike: The Ink Black Heart starts tonight at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer
Strike: The Ink Black Heart starts tonight at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger are returning to our screens for the sixth story of the BBC’s hit crime drama in co-production with HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery and adapted from J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crime novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Souvenir) as Cormoran Strike and Holliday Grainger (The Capture, Animals) as Robin Ellacott lead a cast of acclaimed British actors including David Westhead (Enola Holmes 2, Bodyguard), Christian McKay (Rivals, Dangerous Liaisons), Emma Fielding (Sanditon, Van der Valk), Tupele Dorgu (The Full Monty, Ridley) and James Nelson-Joyce (Time, Industry) amongst others.
Ruth Sheen (Unforgotten, It’s A Sin) is returning as Pat, Strike’s office manager, alongside fellow returning cast members Jack Greenlees (The Trial of Cristine Keeler, Payback) as Sam Barclay, Natasha O’Keeffe (Peaky Blinders, The Wheel of Time) as Charlotte, and Caitlin Innes Edwards (Hanna, Black Mirror: Smithereens) as Isla.
When frantic, desperate Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.
Robin informs Edie that the agency is too busy to take on her case and thinks nothing more of it until a few weeks later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.
Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches them to their limit.
Strike is one of the UK’s most watched dramas, with the most recent instalment: Strike – Troubled Blood – averaging 8.4 million viewers across its run in 2022 (28-day figures).
Sue Tully returns to direct Strike – The Ink Black Heart, her third time working on the series. Her credits include Strike – Troubled Blood, Too Close, Strike – Lethal White, Line of Duty, Tin Star, The A Word and The Musketeers.