Created by Declan Croghan, the six-part series will open with a 90-minute special and begins filming this spring.
Keith Allen plays Detective Inspector Hale, who calls upon Dr Eve Lockhart and her private forensics facility to help solve crimes and find justice for the victims.
Allen says: “I’m delighted that the BBC has given me the chance to delve into the murky world of The Body Farm.”
Eve’s team is made up of Rosa, Mike and Oggy. Wunmi Mosaku (Moses Jones, Silent Witness) plays Rosa, who is young and eager to put her research into practice, Mark Bazeley (The Bourne Ultimatum) plays Mike, Eve’s right-hand man, and Finlay Robertson (How Not To Live Your Life) is Oggy, a hardcore science geek who has had his head buried in his studies so long that he has begun to fear the real world.
Kate Harwood, Controller, Drama Series and Serials, says: “We are tremendously excited to have such a wonderful cast line-up and to be following the character of Eve Lockhart into a new job as she leads her pioneering forensic team out to fight crime; Eve will face her challenges in the same way that she did in Waking The Dead, with cool professionalism and quiet compassion.”
The series will be made by BBC Drama Production in association with Trevor Eve’s company Projector Productions.