Sarah Phelps lands sixth Agatha Christie adaptation

Sarah Phelps has landed her sixth Agatha Christie adaptation, with Endless Night heading to BBC1 and BritBox in the US and Canada.

Coming shortly after its most recent Christie adaptation, Towards Zero, Mammoth Screen will once again produce the series with Agatha Christie Limited.

The 3 x 60-minute Endless Night will be set in the English countryside in 1967 where a man moves into a beautiful house with his new lover, ignoring warnings of a curse that dates back centuries. As increasingly chilling events occur, they must decide if the curse is real and means to destroy them or if someone is intent on torturing them.

Phelps, who is also the writer of BBC1’s Bafta-winning drama The Sixth Commandment, has previously adapted Christie’s And Then There Were None, Bafta-nominated The Witness For The Prosecution, Ordeal By Innocence, The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse.

She said: “One of Agatha Christie’s last novels, this is a chilling story of love, sex, deceit and death, of how far we’ll go to get our hearts desire and what we’ll do when night falls and the wolves start circling.”

As she has done on her five previous adaptations, Phelps will exec produce alongside Rebecca Durbin and Damien Timmer for Mammoth Screen, James Prichard for Agatha Christie Limited, Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, and Robert Schildhouse, Jon Farrar and Stephen Nye for BritBox.

Timmer and Durbin said: “In 2015 Sarah Phelps won great acclaim for her adaption of And Then There Were None, which launched a new series of standalone Agatha Christie titles for the BBC, and we’re beyond delighted that she’s returning to take on Endless Night, Christie’s late masterpiece from 1967.”

Filming will take place later this year, with casting yet to be announced. Fifth Season is set to handle distribution.

Episode one of Towards Zero amassed 5.3m UK viewers in 28 days since it launched in March, with the three parter averaging 3.5m after 28 days according to Barb data from overnights.tv.

According to BritBox, Towards Zero is one of its biggest launches to date in the US, with the largest first week viewership and engagement of any premiere on the platform.