BBC One Sets Premiere Date The Pale Horse

BBC One has set a premiere date for The Pale Horse, with the two-part Agatha Christie adaptation to begin on Sunday February 9th and conclude the following Sunday.

Written by Sarah Phelps, it is her fifth adaptation of an Agatha Christie work for the BBC, following The ABC Murders, And Then There Were None, Ordeal by Innocence and Witness for the Prosecution. Directed by Leonora Lonsdale, the drama is produced by Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited, and was filmed in and around Bristol.

Rufus Sewell stars as Mark Easterbrook, a man who finds his own name on a list discovered in the shoe of a dead woman. His attempt to understand how it got there leads him to the village of Much Deeping and a trio of women rumoured to be witches. Kaya Scodelario, Bertie Carvel and Sean Pertwee co-star, with Rita Tushingham, Sheila Atim and Kathy Kiera Clarke as the women of The Pale Horse.

The adaptation departs significantly from Christie’s 1961 novel, as Phelps’s previous Christie dramas have done. It went on to air in the United States on Amazon Prime Video the following month.