Film Music Reporter

Adrian Johnston has been tapped to score the upcoming BBC limited series Cormoran Strike. The show is based J.K. Rowling’s bestselling crime novels, which she wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, and stars Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger. The drama centers on a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. The series comprises of The Cuckoo’s Calling, with three hour-long episodes and The Silkworm and Career of Evil, both with two hour-long episodes. Rowling is also executive producing the project with Neil Blair (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), Ruth Kenley-Letts and Elizabeth Kilgarriff (Poldark, Call the Midwife). Ben Richards (The Tunnel, Outcasts) wrote the scripts for The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm and Tom Edge (Lovesick) wrote Career of Evil. Cormoran Strike will premiere later this year in the BBC and will air in the U.S. on HBO.