The BBC has released more details about its new Scottish crime drama, Rebus.
It will star Richard Rankin (Outlander, The Replacement) in the title role, Brian Ferguson (The Ipcress File, Spanish Princess) as John’s brother, Michael, and Lucie Shorthouse (Line of Duty, Ten Percent) as Rebus’s investigation partner, Detective Constable Siobhan Clarke.
Based on the best-selling Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin, the series will launch on Friday 17 May.
Written for screen by Gregory Burke (’71, Six Four), the drama will reimagine Rebus as a younger Detective Sergeant in Edinburgh.
“Shaken after a violent encounter with gangster Ger Cafferty, Edinburgh detective John Rebus finds himself at a psychological crossroads. At odds with a job increasingly driven by corporate technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter’s life by his ex-wife’s wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play – either as a family man or a police officer.”
The 6 x 45 minute series is directed by Niall MacCormick (Complicit, The Victim, Wallander) and Fiona Walton (Shetland, Annika) and is produced by Angela Murray. Eleventh Hour Films’ Paula Cuddy, Jill Green and Eve Gutierrez are the Executive Producers of the series, alongside Tomas Axelsson and Isabelle Hultén for Viaplay, director Niall MacCormick, writer Gregory Burke and author Ian Rankin. Rebus
It has been supported by Screen Scotland.
