The first photo has been released of Sherlock star Mark Gatiss as Major Benjy in BBC One’s upcoming adaptation of EF Benson’s comic drama Mapp and Lucia.

Adapated by Inside No 9‘s Steve Pemberton, the three-part series is currently filming in Rye, Sussex.

Set in the summer of 1930, Mapp and Lucia stars Miranda Richardson (Parade’s End, Blackadder) and Anna Chancellor (The Hour, Spooks) as notorious small-town social rivals Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Mrs Emmeline ‘Lucia’ Lucas.

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