A Pair of Previews

Nicola Walker, who starred as beleaguered Detective Chief Inspector Cassie Stuart in the first four seasons of the British series Unforgotten, will soon be returning to PBS-TV’s Masterpiece in a rather different role. She will lead the cast of Annika, a six-part crime drama that finds her playing Detective Inspector Annika Strandhed, the head of Glasgow, Scotland’s new Marine Homicide Unit.

Mystery Fanfare explains that Annika “will have a special premiere on PBS Passport, an added member benefit which provides extended access to a digital, on-demand library of PBS programs, and on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on April 17, 2022. The series will have a television broadcast on Masterpiece in Fall 2022.”

That blog also features a 30-second trailer for the coming serial.

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While we’re on the subject of small-screen trailers, also take note that The Killing Times has posted a terrific, two-minute preview of Slow Horses, the six-part Apple+ TV spy thriller based on Mick Herron’s 2010 novel of that same name. In the series, Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, the arrogant and habitually offensive head of “a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House.”

Slow Horses will debut on Apple TV+ on Friday, April 1.