'Strike' Season 2 Release Date News: Adaptation of J.K. Rowling's 'Career of Evil' to Come Out Next Year
"Strike" has just started airing its first episodes, and BBC One has already ordered a quick follow-up, this time based on J.K. Rowling's "Strike - Career of Evil" original. The new "season" is expected to air later next year.
Rowling is best known over in the U.S. for her "Harry Potter" series, but over in the U.K., her gritty, unbalanced detective Cormoran Strike is rapidly becoming a household name. Strike is a veteran turned private detective, and he is hopelessly disorganized until Robin comes to his rescue, as summed up by Elite Daily.
The "Strike" series was written by J.K. Rowling under her pen name Robert Galbraith, and "Career of Evil" will be her third work on the detective that's been taken up by BBC One to be adapted for TV. The first two, "The Cuckoo's Calling" and "The Silkworm," aired over the U.K. starting Aug. 26 for a total of five one-hour episodes, as recapped by their press release.
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Rowling's latest material is good for two episodes of "Career of Evil," which will air later in 2018. British actor Tom Burke stars as Cormoran Strike, alongside Holliday Grainger's Robin Ellacott as the duo takes on another disturbing case from their cramped office in London's Denmark Street.
Grainger, who began in "The Cuckoo's Calling" as Strike's reluctant assistant, will see a bigger role in the detective's new cases as she begins to get a glimpse of her own potential in solving crimes. This new case, however, is something else, and it all begins when a severed leg is sent to Strike's office one day.
Their partnership was tested as the two confront the worst aspects of their pasts, even as Robin deals with an upcoming wedding. Will the pair get through their latest case? Viewers over the U.S. can find out when Cinemax, who acquired the U.S. and Canada airing rights for "Strike," airs the show by 2018.
