All3media revealed PBS plans to debut "Annika’s" six episodes on PBS Passport and PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on 17 April, 2022. The series, starring Nicola Walker, will also be broadcasted on television this Fall. “I am absolutely delighted to see this hit Scottish show arrive stateside,” Arabella Page Croft, producer for Black Camel Pictures said. “We are thrilled to bring our irrepressible marine homicide squad chief Annika, played by the amazing Nicola Walker, to a new audience who we hope will delight in her literary life-musings and crime-solving prowess as much as the UK audience have loved it.”
Walker will be joined by Jamie Sives, who will play DS Michael McAndrews, Annika’s old colleague. The character resents being passed over for the DI job but performs at full throttle as her second-in-command; Katie Leung as DC Blair Ferguson, the forensic brains behind the unit; and Ukweli Roac as DS Tyrone Clarke, the new cop at the station, who requested a posting with the legendary Annika. “The dialogue is so droll and the performances so charming I’m in for what fisherfolk call the long haul,” a reviewer commented. "Annika allows Walker to let loose a warm sense of humor.”
Silvie Furneaux will also appear in the series as Morgan, Annika’s rebellious teenage daughter, and Paul McGann as Morgan’s therapist Jake Strathearn, who becomes very close to the single mom. “Annika is a terrifically complicated, funny, one-of-a kind character brought brilliantly to life by Nicola Walker,” “Masterpiece,” Executive Producer Susanne Simpson said. “Fans of Unforgotten and Last Tango in Halifax have a lot to look forward to in Annika.”
Walker’s interpretation of Annika is based on the popular radio drama "Annika Stranded," which aired in 31 episodes on BBC Radio 4 between 2013 and 2020. Walker was the one-woman star of that series, with scripts by Nick Walker. The two Walkers are now collaborating again to showcase the character's complexity, vulnerability, and eccentricness on television. “I’ve been Annika a long time now,” Walker said. “And if there was a chance of getting her fully fleshed out in a real-world environment, I wanted to be part of it."
I am absolutely delighted to see this hit Scottish show arrive stateside. We are thrilled to bring our irrepressible marine homicide squad chief Annika, played by the amazing Nicola Walker, to a new audience who we hope will delight in her literary life-musings and crime-solving prowess as much as the UK audience have loved it.” Arabella Page Croft Producer, Black Camel Pictures
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