Agatha Christie’s new adaptation will be on BBC One, giving us an explosive love triangle and a house party full of enemies
Towards Zero is the BBC’s new Agatha Christie drama, with plenty of twists and turns in store for viewers.
The adaptation of the novel sees tennis star Nevile Strange and his ex-wife Audrey make the unfathomable decisionto spend a summer together at their childhood home on a coastal estate.
They aren’t along either, was a volatile mix of guests including Nevile’s new wife Kay, a mysterious gentleman’s valet, an exiled cousin with a grudge, a family lawyer, an orphan and a French con man.
And of course, there’s a murder to solve.
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The series starts tonight (Sunday, March 2) on BBC One at 9pm – here’s what else you need to know about the new thriller set to have us on the edge of our seats.
Plot
The strange mix of fuests are spending the summer at Gull’s Point, the coastal estate of Nevile’s aunt, Lady Tressilian.
When a murder is committed, a troubled detective who is struggling with his own issues has to recover his sense of purpose and solve the mysterious crime.
Episodes
Tonight’s episode is the first of three, with the second airing next Suday on BBC One at 9pm again.
Each episode is set to be an hour long.
Full cast
There’s a great cast for the series, led by American actress, director and model Anjelica Huston, who is playing tennis star Nevile’s aunt Lady Tressilian.
The Academy Award and Golden Globe winning actress had her breakthrough with her performance as a mobster moll in Prizzi’s Honor, directed by her father, and achieved further critical and popular recognition for playing a mistress in Crimes and Misdemeanors, a con artist in The Grifters, the Grand High Witch in The Witches and Morticia Addams in the Addams Family films.
Nevile is played by Oliver Mansour Jackson-Cohen, known for playing Luke in the Netflix horror television series The Haunting of Hill House, as well as appearing in The Haunting of Bly Manor.
Viewers will also recognise him for his role as Adrian Griffin in the horror film The Invisible Man.
His new wife Kay is played by Mimi Keene, known for her roles as Cindy Williams on EastEnders, Ruby Matthews on the Netflix comedy Sex Education and Nathalie in the film After Everything.
Nevile’s ex wife Audrey played the lead in Amazon Prime Video’s tennis-based drama series Fifteen-Love, and appeared in Black Doves, a Keira Knightley-led series for Netflix.
She also has a role in Steven Knight’s historical drama series A Thousand Blows.
Lady Tressilian – Anjelica Huston
Inspector Leach – Matthew Rhys
Thomas Royde – Jack Farthing
Louis Morel – Khalil Gharbia
Mac – Adam Hugill
Audrey Strange – Ella Lily Hyland
Nevile Strange – Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Kay Elliot – Mimi Keene
Frederick Treves – Clarke Peters
Mary Aldin – Anjana Vasan
Mr Coles – Peter Forbes
Mr Taylor – Jack Staddon
Mrs Barrett – Jackie Clune
Sylvia – Grace Doherty
Vogue reporter – Tristan Beint
Judge – Michael Culkin
Where was Towards Zero filmed?
Towards Zero was filmed in and around Bristol and the scenic Devon cost.
Bristol Film Office, who supported the filming last summer, explained the different locations that had been used to bring the series to life.
The nave of Bristol Cathedral became the outside of the Westminster’s Royal Courts Of Justice for the BBC show.
The inside of the courts was a mixture of Sessions House in Usk, South Wales, paired with corridors and walkways at Grittleton House, a former boarding school in Chippenham.
The team also shot in Bristol city centre, turning the bustling city into a busy 1930s London street, meanwhile they filmed scenes of Nevile Strange’s flashy apartment at Goldney Hall, one of the University of Bristol’s buildings.
Producers even worked with the VXF company to create a full-scale replica of the Wimbledon court as it was in the 1930s.
The court was built in the Bath & West Showground in Shepton Mallet, but the team filmed scenes in the changing room in Bristol Masonic Hall on Park Street.
Two properties make up Gull’s Point, a private country house in Wiltshire and Tyntesfield House, a National Trust property on the outskirts of Bristol.
In Devon, the Burgh Island Hotel near Kingsbridge became the Easterhead Bay Hotel for the show and the beaches at Bantham, where the Avon meets the sea, and the more sheltered cove at Thurlestone, served as the fictional beaches around Saltcreek and Gulls Point.
Towards Zero starts on BBC One on Sunday, March 2 at 9pm.