BBC One has announced the commission of From Darkness, a new drama written by Katie Baxendale (Sugar Rush).

The four-part serial “explores what sustains our souls and questions whether you should you do something that you’re good at, even if it’s bad for you”.

BBC One Controller Charlotte Moore commented: “From Darkness brings new writing talent to BBC One – Katie Baxendale’s first original commission is a powerful and provocative new serial.”

The official synopsis reads: “When Clare Church left the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) in the mid-90s, she turned her back on a world of misogyny and chauvinism, where it seemed you had to think and act like a man to succeed in a man’s world. Ignored in the office and second place in her relationship with her married DI, Clare found solace instead on the remote island of Canna, with her new man, Norrie, and daughter Megan.

“Now, as four bodies from Clare’s past investigations are unearthed, Clare finds herself getting pulled back in to a world she’d long since left behind and a case that only she can solve. Battling her own demons, Clare feels the dual pull of a vocation that sustained her and a man she once loved… but can she protect herself from the darkness this time?”

From Darkness begins filming in the North of England early next year.

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