Acorn TV and Paramount's Channel 5 are co-producing an adaptation of Reverend Richard Coles' bestselling novel Murder Before Evensong. Deadline reported that Acorn has been developing the series for around two years alongside Sky Studios-backed producer the Lighthouse. The streamer will take U.S. rights, while Channel 5 will broadcast the drama in the U.K.
Murder Before Evensong was published in 2022 and introduces Canon Daniel Clement, a rector of Champton who becomes embroiled in a murder case. He has gone on to feature in three other of Coles's "cozy crime" novels, including Murder at the Monastery and A Death in the Parish.
Writer Nick Hicks-Beach (Midsomer Murders) is attached to the adaptation. Coles will be an executive producer alongside Hicks-Beach and Lighthouse co-founder Radford Neville.