The Edinburgh International TV Festival is underway and with it comes the usual flurry of big British TV announcements. The latest of these is a brand new commission for Sky, thriller Temple.
Due to go into production this September, Temple is set “deep below the streets of London, descending past Temple tube in the beating heart of the city” where there “lies a dark secret. An illegal clinic has been set up in an abandoned subterranean network of tunnels.” Spooky.
Kingsman‘s Mark Strong will play lead Daniel, “a surgeon driven by personal tragedy to treat anyone who is willing to pay for medical help outside the system.”
Strong is joined by Line Of Duty‘s Daniel Mays as “a disgruntled transport employee” and Game Of Thrones‘ Carice Van Houten as “a guilt-ridden medical researcher”. Together, the trio treat “a variety of increasingly desperate and highly dangerous patients, as Daniel’s morality is tested to the limit.”
Temple is based on the Norwegian drama Valkyrien, and has been adapted by Boy A writer Mark O’Rowe. Expect to see this twisting, darkly comic morality tale at some point in 2019.
More news on Temple as it arrives.