BBC confirms return date of hit drama Strike for gripping new series

BBC transgression fans volition beryllium capable to ticker the latest thrilling play successful the Strike bid arsenic it returns successful December.

The detective transgression brings backmost Tom Burke arsenic Cormoran Strike and Holliday Grainger arsenic Robin Ellacott for the latest series.

The Ink Black Heart has been confirmed to beryllium returning to the BBC and volition aerial connected Monday 16 December and Tuesday 17 December astatine 9pm connected BBC1.

The caller bid volition absorption connected the publication The Ink Black Heart, which is the sixth publication successful the play bid adapted from J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crime novels written nether the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

At the extremity of play 5 successful 2022, Cormoran failed to confess his existent feelings for Robin arsenic she navigated her mode after divorce.

Yet it remains to beryllium seen whether bid six volition spot a romance oregon a blessed ending for the detective pair.

In pictures from the caller series, which were released earlier this month, Cormoran and Robin tin beryllium seen moving alongside each different arsenic their 'will they/won't they' chemistry hangs successful the balance.

The caller bid promises to beryllium arsenic thrilling arsenic ever with caller twists and turns according to the BBC synopsis.

The synopsis reads: "When frantic, hopeless Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to talk to her, backstage detective Robin Ellacott doesn't cognize rather what to marque of the situation.

"The co-creator of a fashionable cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online fig who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie.

"Edie is hopeless to uncover Anomie's existent identity.

"Robin informs Edie that the bureau is excessively engaged to instrumentality connected her lawsuit and thinks thing much of it until a fewer weeks later, erstwhile she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and past murdered successful Highgate Cemetery, the determination of The Ink Black Heart.

"Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike go drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's existent identity.

"But with a analyzable web of online aliases, concern interests and household conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled successful a lawsuit that stretches them to their limit."

Strike is 1 of the UK's astir watched dramas with the astir caller instalment, Strike -Troubled Blood, averaging 8.4 cardinal viewers crossed its tally successful 2022.

Strike was archetypal broadcast on BBC One in August 2017, with consequent bid airing successful 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022.

The Ink Black Heart airs connected Monday 16 December and Tuesday 17 December astatine 9pm connected BBC1.