BritBox, the subscription streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV, offering the biggest collection of streaming British television in North America, is expanding its impressive library to include a brand new series The Tower featuring Game of Thrones star Gemma Whelan, The Haunting of Bly Manor’s Tahirah Sharif, and Kate & Koji lead Jimmy Akingbola. BritBox will release all episodes of The Tower simultaneously which will debut on December 1.
The Tower is based on the acclaimed debut novel Post Mortem by Kate London, a former detective in the Metropolitan Police’s homicide command. Detectives Sarah Collins (Gemma Whelan, Game of Thrones) and Steve Bradshaw (Jimmy Akingbola, Kate & Koji) are called to a shocking incident at Portland Tower in south London. Two people have fallen to their deaths from the tower: a veteran police officer and a teenage Muslim girl. On the roof, Sarah finds a traumatized five-year-old boy and a rookie police officer, Lizzie Adama (Tahirah Sharif, The Haunting of Bly Manor) – the only witnesses to what happened. Within hours, Lizzie has disappeared. Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth behind the grisly deaths and track down Lizzie. The investigation will take her into the dark heart of policing in London and cast a shadow over her and Lizzie’s lives. The Tower will bring this thrilling, intelligent crime story to life on screen with an incredible cast also featuring Emmet J. Scanlan (The Fall) and Nick Holder (London Road).
The Tower is a three-part series adapted by Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson and produced by Windhover Films and Mammoth Screen in association with ITV Studios. Harbinson (Fearless, 24, ER) executive produces the drama alongside Mammoth Screen’s founder and CEO Damien Timmer (The Serpent, Endeavour) and Karen Thrussell (Poldark, And Then There Were None). Paul Testar (The Serpent) is producer, Sherie Myers (I May Destroy You) is co-producer, and Jim Loach (Save Me Too) is director.