Airdate: Suspect

8 part UK crime drama Suspect screens this week on SBS.

This comes with a topline cast including James Nesbitt, Sacha Dhawan, Anne-Marie Duff, Sam Heughan, Niamh Algar, Richard E. Grant, Ben Miller, Antonia Thomas and Joely Richardson.

It is based on the Danish series Face to Face and premiered in the UK in June.

SBS premieres with a double episode.

When veteran detective Danny Frater (James Nesbitt) turns up at a hospital mortuary for a routine ID check, he’s devastated to discover the corpse of his estranged daughter Christina (Imogen King). Danny refuses to accept the coroner’s report that points to suicide, and sets out on a dangerous, agonising mission to uncover the events that led to her death.

Danny refuses to accept the coroner’s report that points to suicide, and sets out on a dangerous, agonising mission to uncover the events that led to her death. Taking its cue from Christoffer Boe and Miso Film’s acclaimed series Face To Face, each episode sees Danny conduct a separate cross examination with a different suspect or witness, keeping viewers in suspense as they engage with the investigation in real time. As Danny pieces together Christina’s relentless descent into criminality, he’s also forced to come to terms with his own failings as a father and the part he himself may have played in her downfall. Exquisite cinematography captures all the iconic and conflicting facets of contemporary London, where beauty, wealth and excess collide with ugliness, violence and corruption: a challenging backdrop that mirrors the moral maze at the heart of Danny’s journey to uncover the truth.

9:30pm Thursday on SBS.