First look at David Mitchell as Ludwig

As Anna Maxwell Martin joins cast of the quirky crime comedy-drama.

Filming has begun on BBC One’s new detective series Ludwig, starring David Mitchell – with producers today releasing this first-look image.

It has also been announced that Anna Maxwell Martin is joining the cast of the six-part series.

Mitchell says: ‘I’m delighted to be working in a genre of television that I have loved ever since, at the age of 10, I started watching the Miss Marple adaptations, starring Joan Hickson, with my parents. Sometimes the only thing that can bring the whole family together is murder.’

In the show, Mitchell plays John Taylor, a loner who does not own a computer, mobile phone or even a television, but lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of Ludwig.

But when his brother James – a successful DCI leading Cambridge’s busy major crimes team – goes missing, John takes over his brother’s identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts.

Motherland and Line of Duty star Maxwell Martin plays Lucy, James’s wife, in the 'case-of-the-week’ crime comedy-drama. Also joining the cast are Dipo Ola, Gerran Howell, Izuka Hoyle, Dylan Hughes and Dorothy Atkinson.

No broadcast date has yet been announced.

Ludwig production credits

Made by: Big Talk Studios in association with That Mitchell And Webb Company
Written and created by: Mark Brotherhood.
Executive producers: Kenton Allen, Mark Brotherhood, Saurabh Kakkar, David Mitchell, Kathryn O’Connor and Chris Sussman
Producer: Georgie Fallon
Directors: Robert McKillop and Jill Robertson
Commissioned by: Jon Petrie, director of comedy commissioning at the BBC
Commissioning editor: Tanya Qureshi