Doctor Who uberfan and Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss is creator, writer and, for the first time in his career, lead actor in new murder mystery Bookish, where he plays gay antique book store owner Gabriel Book, who solves crimes while living in a 'lavender' marriage with a woman, Trottie (Polly Walker) Set in the post-World[...]
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Mark Gatiss is a very busy man: he's the writer and star of the upcoming 1940s detective series Bookish and currently playing Sir John Gielgud in The Crown creator Peter Morgan's play The Motive and the Cue in London's West End, where he has won Best Actor at the Olivier Awards He's known for many[...]
Mark Gatiss will write and star in Bookish, a new detective drama for British crime channel Alibi. Gatiss, best known for co-creating Sherlock with Steven Moffat, writing for and occasionally guest-starring on Doctor Who, and various genre projects for British television, will star as the "erudite and unconventional" Gabriel Book, who helps the police to solve[...]