The BBC commissions The Hairdresser Mysteries starring Sally Phillips

As part of its West Midlands drive, the BBC has announced The Hairdresser Mysteries. It’s yet another cozy crime series, the appetite for which is still strong, as per the recent renewal of Death Valley.

What is The Hairdresser Mysteries about?

The press release linked above tells us:

…is an original, homegrown drama created by playwright and screen writer Jim Cartwright (multi award winning television works include, Road Johnny Shakespeare, Vacuuming completely Nude In Paradise, King of the Teds), and is a nostalgic nod to the 70s which sees a high-end hairdresser, Lily Petal, opt out of the competitive city scene to buy a small village hairdressers at the top of a cobbled street. Everyone tells their hairdresser everything and soon she is at the hub of her new village’s secrets and revelations, and with her own brand of uncannily highly developed, hairdressing intuitive empathy and understanding, solves the village mysteries.

So who’s in the new show?

Filming for The Hairdresser Mysteries will begin this September across the West Midlands and will see Sally Phillips take the lead-role of Lily Petal. Will Trotter (Father Brown, Sister Boniface Mysteries) and Oliver Kent (Sanditon, The Burning Girls) act as executive producers for Mill Bay Media, with Herbert L. Kloiber (The Bombing of Pan Am 103, Fallen) and James Copp (Catch Me A Killer, This Time Next Year) for Night Train Media. Jim Cartwright, Mark Catley and David Semple serve as writers on the series with Paul Gibson, Jermain Julien and Tracey Larcombe directing. Grainne O’Boyle (Doctors) will produce.

It’s a 6×45 series, and we expect the show on screens in 2026. With filming due soon, we might expect more news on casting before the end of the year.