Period Mystery Series 'Dead Still' to Premiere in May on Acorn TV
Mark your calendars, mystery fans. The darkly comic period new mystery series Dead Still has an official premiere date at last.
The new Acorn TV original series will officially premiere on Monday, May 18. Two new episodes will hit the streaming platform that day, with episodes premiering weekly thereafter, through June 15.
From its description alone, the six-part series sounds like a very different sort of British procedural mystery. There will still be murders to solve, of course, but the series' setting and premise are intriguingly different, making the show an instant standout in a crowded field of similar stories. Set in Ireland in the 1880s, Dead Still takes place during the peak of the “postmortem photography” craze. This process, in which people commissioned photos of their dead relations to commemorate their lives, generally featured disturbingly elegant posed photos of the recently deceased, sometimes also involving their living family members.
The series will follow a renowed memorial photographer named Brock Blennerhasset as he investigates the murders of his recently deceased subjects. Brock is played by Luther's Michael Smiley, joined by My Mother and Other Stranger's Eileen O'Higgins as his niece Nancy Vickers and Victoria's Kerr Logan as his assistant Conall Malloy.
