ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive clip from BritBox’s newest mystery series The Long Call, starring Ben Aldridge (Fleabag, Pennyworth) and Pearl Mackie (Doctor Who, Tom Jones). The crime drama premieres Thursday, October 28, on the streamer with all four episodes.
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In this scene, Venn (Aldridge) catches up with Barum Brethren leader Dennis Stephenson (Martin Shaw, Inspector George Gently) and his wife Grace (Anita Dobson, Eastenders) upon his return to North Devon and comes upon a surprising revelation tied to his past.
Check out the exclusive clip from The Long Call below:
“Rejected by his family and the Evangelical religious community known as ‘The Barum Brethren,’ Matthew Venn (Aldridge) walked away from his hometown of North Devon twenty years ago,” reads the official series synopsis. “Now a detective, he returns to the small and deceptively sleepy community with his husband, Jonathan, both to mourn his father (at a distance) and take charge of his first major murder case. Although the more Venn investigates, the more he finds his worlds colliding as he’s slowly drawn back into the same web he tried to escape decades earlier.”
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The Long Call is created by Ann Cleeves (Vera, Shetland) and directed by Lee Haven Jones (Doctor Who, The Bay). Juliet Stevenson (Riveria, The Hour) also stars.
