New three-part drama starring Anna Maxwell Martin, based on the books by Phil Rickman, and adapted by screenwriter Stephen Volk (Afterlife, The Awakening, Ghostwatch).
Maxwell Martin plays Merrily Watkins, a single mother who is also a vicar who’s trained to be an exorcist, “a job increasingly mistrusted by the modern Church and rarely talked about, and one that puts her faith and family to the test...”
David Threlfall (Code of a Killer, Shameless, Tommy Cooper; Not Like That, Like This) plays Rev Huw Owen, a deliverance ministry tutor and Merrily’s mentor. With Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley, O’Brien in Downton Abbey), Ben Bailey Smith (The Four O’Clock Club, Law and Order: UK), Leila Mimmack (Home Fires, Becoming Human) and Kate Dickie (Red Road, Game of Thrones).
Midwinter of the Spirit, 23 September, ITV
