Strictly's Rose Ayling-Ellis lands lead role in new crime drama
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Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis has landed her next leading role in a new crime drama.
Deadline reports that the EastEnders actress will star in and be an executive producer for an adaptation of Will Dean's Dark Pines, the first novel in The Tuva Moodyson Mysteries. The TV version currently has the working title TUVA.
The series follows a deaf reporter who, in the first novel, moves back to her hometown in rural Scotland and gets a job working for a small local paper.
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Her wish to find a story that will make a name for herself might come true, in the worst way possible, as a serial killer has seemingly returned to do more serial killing after 20 years away.
The TV adaptation is being developed by Red Planet Pictures, the company behind Death in Paradise. Ayling-Ellis will be executive producing alongside Caroline Skinner (Doctor Who, Our Girl), Belinda Campbell (Death in Paradise, Beyond Paradise) and the scriptwriter Charlotte Jones (The Halcyon).
Ayling-Ellis is quoted as saying: "As soon as I read Charlotte's scripts and then dived further into Will's books, I just knew this was a role I wanted to play and a world I wanted to explore."
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The actress revealed back in 2022 that she was working on a comedy-drama about dating in London as a deaf woman, as well as a crime drama for ITV called Code of Silence, which is about a catering worker who is asked to use her lip-reading skills to uncover the conversations of dangerous criminals.
She said at the time that writer Catherine Moulton had written an authentic character based on her first-hand experiences, which made her incredibly excited to take the project on.
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