'Gracepoint' Premiere Date Spoilers, Cast News: 'Broadchurch' UK TV Remake to Air This Thursday
In hopes to bring the successful U.K. TV series "Broadchurch" to the U.S. airwaves, show creator Chris Chibnall and executive producer Dan Futterman brought forth the 10-episode crime drama "Gracepoint" that will cast the stars of Anna Gunn as Detective Ellie Miller and David Tennant as Detective Emmet Carver.
To premiere this coming Thursday, Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. on FOX, "Gracepoint" is said to start off in a different beat from the original.
"We did consider different starting places, different ideas for the first episode," exec producer Carolyn Bernstein revealed via TV Line. "The way that the story was told [in Broadchurch] was so well done, why would we contort ourselves? It really felt like the smartest, best launching pad."
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However, when the season progresses in the third or fourth episode, it will "diverge in significant ways from the original," she said. Further reports went to add that "Gracepoint" will certainly have a different ending.
"A young boy, Danny Solano (guest star Nikolas Filipovic), is found dead on an idyllic beach in the small seaside town of Gracepoint, spurring a major investigation lead by Detective Emmet Carver who has just arrived in Gracepoint to fill a high position in the town's police force," the official synopsis reads. "That job previously had been promised to Detective Ellie Miller who, in light of the tragedy, must put any resentment aside and work the case with her prickly new boss."
"Danny's parents Mark (Michael Peña, 'End of Watch') and Beth Solano (Virginia Kull, 'Boardwalk Empire'), and his older sister, Chloe (newcomer Madalyn Horcher) are devastated by the news, which carves a powerfully dark wake through the town as friends become suspects," it continued.
See the trailer here below.
