Airdate: Mr. Mercedes

2017 US mystery thriller Mr. Mercedes, will screen on Showcase in early September.

The series based on a novel by Stephen King centres around a demented serial killer who taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again.

The cast features Brendan Gleeson, Harry Treadaway, Jharrel Jerome, Robert Stanton, Breeda Wool, Mary Louise-Parker and Holland Taylor.

Excitingly, the 10 part series is adapted for television and executive produced by David E. Kelley (The Practice, Big Little Lies, Boston Legal) it is directed by Jack Bender (Lost, Under the Dome).

The AT&T series debuted in the US last August to good reviews with a second season due later this month.

Retired detective Bill Hodges, played by Brendan Gleeson, is still haunted by the unsolved case of “Mr. Mercedes,” who claimed sixteen lives when he drove a stolen Mercedes through a line of job-seekers at a local job fair. Meanwhile, brilliant young psychopath Brady Hartsfield, played by Harry Treadaway, the real Mr. Mercedes, re-emerges to focus his attention on Hodges. What begins as an online cat-and-mouse game between the two soon has deadly real-life consequences as an increasingly desperate Hartsfield becomes bent on leaving his mark on the world.

Monday September 3 at 9:30pm on Showcase.