Channel 5 to premiere Murder Before Evensong on Oct 7 at 9pm

Channel 5 will premiere Murder Before Evensong, a six-episode murder mystery adapted from Reverend Richard Coles's novel, on Tuesday, October 7 at 9pm, with subsequent episodes airing weekly. Set in 1980s England in the fictional village of Champton, the series follows Canon Daniel Clement, the village rector, as a routine parish dispute spirals into a homicide investigation after a parishioner is found dead in the church.

The first episode introduces Daniel, an introverted rector whose plan to install a lavatory in the church divides the parish and exposes simmering tensions. He soon discovers the body of parishioner Anthony Bowness, identified in the story as a cousin of Lord de Floures and a researcher of local wartime history. The corpse is found stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs. As police move in and further fatalities are suggested, Daniel must probe beneath the village surface to determine who to trust while trying to hold his fractured community together.

Matthew Lewis stars as Canon Daniel Clement. Amanda Redman plays his widowed, outspoken mother Audrey, whose unresolved resentments and volatile relationship with her son add domestic pressure to the...