A new comedy drama is coming to the BBC starting this week
comic plays a pair of identical twins, one of which assumes the other’s identity as a detective to investigate his brother’s disappearance.is about an hour long, with the remainder of the series airing on the channel in the same timeslot every Wednesday after that.is a detective drama that sees David Mitchell’s reclusive, puzzle-obsessed character John “Ludwig” Taylor pulled into a world of crime and mystery in an attempt to track down his missing twin brother.
“Drafted in by his sister-in-law Lucy , John reluctantly assumes his brother’s identity as a detective in the Cambridge Police Authority in order to find clues to his brother’s whereabouts.”: “John has never married, never had a family and never really ventured further than his own front door. Without a computer, mobile phone or even a television, he lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of ‘Ludwig’.
“However, filling the shoes of your identical twin is one thing – when your twin also happens to be a successful DCI leading Cambridge’s busy inner-city major crimes team the stakes are much higher.
Mitchell is well acquainted with the Cambridge area, having studied history at Peterhouse from 1993. There, he also performed with the Cambridge Footlights and met Webb – who he would go on to establish a long-running comedy partnership with – during his first year of university.
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