Filming has started on a new episode of Jonathan Creek. This latest mystery will mark the 20th anniversary of the crime-cracking series starring Alan Davies.
The 90-minute special, entitled Daemon's Roost and written by David Renwick, will also feature Sarah Alexander (The Worst Week of My Life, Coupling) as Jonathan's wife Polly and Warwick Davis (Star Wars, Life’s Too Short), Emun Elliot (The Paradise, Game of Thrones), Ken Bones (Dr Who, Atlantis), Rosalind March (Calendar Girls, The Evermoor Chronicles), Jason Barnett (Agatha Raisin, Bad Education) and Jo Martin (Still Open All Hours, Doctors).
According to legend, a 19th century sorcerer named Jacob Surtees would summon the powers of Hell to terrorise and subjugate his victims at his home, ‘Daemons’ Roost’. A hundred and fifty years after his death the house is occupied by another, equally macabre, figure: veteran horror film director Nathan Clore. With his health now failing he has summoned home his stepdaughter Alison, to share with her the chilling truth of what happened to her family there.
However, just days before her arrival Nathan Clore has suffered a stroke, rendering him paralysed and unable to communicate the very truth that she has come to learn. After assisting Alison’s husband in the past, Jonathan Creek is called upon to help again but as the story unfolds, with ever more sinister twists and turns, the gruesome rituals that were once enacted in the dungeon of Daemons’ Roost are frighteningly revived with horrifying consequences.
Alan Davies says: “Jonathan Creek finds himself in real danger. It’s the spookiest episode ever."
The episode will probably go out on BBC1 later this year.
