Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson lead Apple TV series Down Cemetery Road

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson will lead Down Cemetery Road, an eight-episode crime drama that premieres on Apple TV on October 29, 2025. The series begins with a house explosion in a quiet Oxford suburb that kills two people and leaves a young girl missing, drawing Thompson’s private investigator Zoë Boehm and Wilson’s neighbor Sarah Tucker into an unraveling conspiracy that reaches into powerful circles.

The official trailer frames the mystery as both perilous and oddly playful. Zoë is introduced as a PI who defies the conventional hardboiled archetype, and Sarah arrives at her doorstep convinced her husband is unfaithful before revealing a far graver concern. As the investigation progresses, the pair encounter evidence suggesting that some people long believed dead may still be alive while others among the living are dying under suspicious circumstances. The trailer also hints at antagonists who appear to know more about the disappearance than they disclose.

Down Cemetery Road is adapted from Mick Herron’s 2003 novel, the first of four featuring Zoë Boehm. Herron, who created the novels that inspired another recent Apple TV spy series, is among the executive producers on the...