Harry Potter Alum Matthew Lewis to Star in Acorn TV Mystery Murder Before Evensong

Acorn TV is conjuring up a new murder mystery, and a Harry Potter cast member is onboard.

Matthew Lewis will star in the new series Murder Before Evensong, based on the bestselling novel by the Reverend Richard Coles, TVLine has learned. The series, which has earned a six-episode order from Acorn TV, features Lewis as Canon Daniel Clement, who shares the rectory with his widowed mother and two dachshunds. Daniel’s plan to install a lavatory at the church leads to a bitter divide within the parish… and then a man is found stabbed to death in the back of the church.

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“As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together… and catch a killer,” per the official synopsis. Nick Hicks-Beach (Midsomer Murders) will pen the series, which is expected to air late next year, with David Moore (Outlander) set to direct.

Lewis is best known for playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film franchise, appearing in all eight films, which ended with 2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2. Since then, he’s appeared in British TV series like Happy Valley and All Creatures Great and Small.

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