Houdini & Doyle Are Debuting Soon On Fox, Here’s The Facts
Houdini & Doyle is a mystery adventure drama following two great men of the 20th Century – Harry Houdini (Michael Weston, House, Six Feet Under), master magician, escape artist and paranormal debunker; and Arthur Conan Doyle (Stephen Mangan, Episodes), prolific writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes and paranormal aficionado – who grudgingly join forces with New Scotland Yard to investigate unsolved and inexplicable crimes with a supernatural slant.
Canadian actress Rebecca Liddiard (Man Seeking Woman) stars as Constable Adelaide Stratton, whose character is the first female constable ever to work for the London Metropolitan Police Force.
In the series, Houdini, Doyle and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will face cases that appear to involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder. The 10-episode drama was inspired by true events and is commissioned straight to series for ITV Encore in the U.K., and by Global in Canada, and licensed in the U.S. on FOX. Acclaimed director Stephen Hopkins (24, Californication) directed the pilot.
Houdini & Doyle is executive-produced by David Shore, creator and executive producer of the network’s long-running and award-winning medical drama, House; and written and co-created by his longtime collaborator, David Hoselton (House, Chicago P.D.) and leading Canadian screenwriter David Titcher (The Librarians), who are also executive producers. The series is distributed by Sony Pictures Television.
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