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Strike (also known as C. B. Strike internationally) is a British crime drama television programme based on the book series Cormoran Strike by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. [1] The programme was first broadcast on BBC One on 27 August 2017, after receiving an advance premiere at the British Film Institute on 10 August 2017.
Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. K. Rowling, under the pen name Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the cases of the fictional British private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott.
Cormoran Strike – A private detective. He is a minor celebrity, thanks in part to his rock star father and his solving of high-profile murders. He is also a war veteran who lost his leg in an explosion. Throughout the book, Strike suffers extreme pain in his stump due to weight-gain as a result of his unhealthy lifestyle, forcing him to diet.
The Strike series continues to have an old-school charm about it. Most detective dramas these days strive to be realistic, serious and brooding – it can all be very exhausting.
J.K. Rowling has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to Cormoran Strike, the limited series based on the Harry Potter author's crime novels
Troubled Blood begins in August 2013 and ends on Robin's 30th birthday on 9 October 2014. While visiting his terminally ill aunt Joan in Cornwall, Strike is approached by a woman who wants to hire Strike's firm to investigate the disappearance of her mother, Margot Bamborough, a general practitioner in Clerkenwell, London, almost 40 years previously, on 11 October 1974.
The SAG-AFTRA strike has shut down scores of film and TV productions as actors hit the picket line. While many sets had already shut down as a result of the WGA writers strike, the actors strike ...
Strike is fond of the middle son, Jack. Lucy reveals a terrible secret to Strike about their time in the Aylmerton Community as children. Ted Nancarrow – Strike and Lucy's maternal uncle, who is developing traits of dementia, later diagnosed as Alzheimer's disease. Prudence Donleavy – Strike's paternal half-sister. Works as a therapist from ...