A sixth season of the crime series Strike is in the works, based on the novels of Robert Galbraith, JK Rowling’s pseudonym.
It’s been over a year since the last season premiered on the BBC based on Rowling’s books and 2024 will see her novel The Ink Black Heart adapted for screens.
Strike season 6: Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger have led the way of the first 5 seasons
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“It’s been a fun day,” Rowling posted along with a series of ominous emojis besides a snap of the scripts.
Rowling is collaborating with writer Tom Edge once more after he’d written on the past four seasons of the drama.
The Ink Black Heart promises to strike a chord with several of Rowling’s fans who’ve followed her recent activities as it focusses very much on the culture war.
The storyline follows a successful video animator, Edie Ledwell, who suddenly finds herself the subject of online vitriol which soon leads to her brutal murder.
Some of the abuse levelled at Ledwell includes cries of transphobia, although Rowling has spoken out previously to deny she based the character on any aspect of her own life.
Rowling said of the novel, via Deadline: “I wasn’t clairvoyant… it was just one of those weird twists. Sometimes life imitates art more than one would like.”
A release date for the sixth season of Strike is yet to be announced and the BBC confirmed to GB News that the series had been renewed.
It’s believed the show’s leading stars, Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger, will both be back to reprise their roles as Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, respectively.
JK Rowling penned the Cormoran Strike series of novels
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Burke is a British actor who recently appeared on the small screen in Sky’s mind-bending drama The Lazarus Project as well as Netflix’s The Crown and the BBC’s The Musketeers.
On the big screen, he’s enjoyed stints in True Things alongside Ruth Wilson, Mank, The Souvenir, Only God Forgives and Donkey Punch.
Grainger’s CV, meanwhile, boasts big-screen roles in Tulip Fever, Tell It to the Bees, Home, Cinderella and The Riot Club.
As well as Strike, her TV credits include The Capture, Patrick Melrose, Electric Dreams and The Borgias.
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