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Strike

Based On “Cormoran Strike”

Strike (also known as C. B. Strike internationally) is a British crime drama television programme based on the book series Cormoran Strike by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The programme was first broadcast on BBC One on 27 August 2017, after receiving an advance premiere at the British Film Institute on 10 August 2017. The programme follows Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London's Denmark Street, who uses his unique insight and his background as a Special Investigation Branch investigator to solve complex cases that have eluded the police along with his assistant, subsequently business partner, Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger). Nineteen episodes across six series have been broadcast to date, each series adapting a novel: The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014), Career of Evil (2015), Lethal White (2018), Troubled Blood (2020), and The Ink Black Heart (2022) respectively.

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Release date:
August 27, 2017
Cast:
Holliday Grainger, Leo Bill, Tom Burke, Ben Crompton, Natasha O'Keeffe
Genre:
Crime, Detective
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

Book vs Film

Cormoran Strike 2013
The Book · 2013

Cormoran Strike

Poster for Strike
The TV Series · 2017

Strike

Charles Sturridge, Michael Keillor

★ 7.9 / 10 32,899 votes · IMDb

Reached the screen 4 years after publication.

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