Apple TV+'s 'Down Cemetery Road' has set Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson as its leads, with Morwenna Banks as lead writer and exec producer.

Love Actually star Dame Emma, 65, will play struggling private detective Zoe Boehm and star opposite Luther actress Wilson as Sarah Tucker, a woman who becomes obsessed with the whereabouts of a child she believes to be missing.

Apple TV+ has ordered an adaptation of Mick Herron’s Down Cemetery Road, starring Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande; Sense and Sensibility) and Ruth Wilson (Luther, The Affair, His Dark Materials).

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are to star in a new Apple TV+ thriller called Down Cemetery Road set in an Oxford suburb.

Emma Thompson ( Harry Potter films, Cruella ) and Ruth Wilson ( Luther , His Dark Materials ) have signed on to star in the Apple TV+ series Down Cemetery Road , based on the novel by Mick Herron . The project comes to Apple following the streamer’s work with Herron on Slow Horses ,

British actors Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson will topline "Down Cemetery Road", an upcoming thriller series for streamer Apple TV+.