{"id":573798,"date":"2026-08-19T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573798\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:22:10","slug":"mark-gatiss-drama-bookish-returning-for-third-chapter-xmas-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573798\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Gatiss Drama ‘Bookish’ Returning For Third Chapter & Xmas Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere\u2019s a third chapter coming for Gabriel Book.<\/p>\n

\n\tMark Gatiss<\/a>\u2018s cozy crime drama, Bookish<\/a>, has landed a Season 3 order at UKTV<\/a>\u2018s U&Alibi channel, and a two-part Christmas special for this year. The third season will run to six episodes and is set to launch in 2027. <\/p>\n

\n\tBookish: The Crown of Destiny, the festive special, will see bookkeeper Book (Gatiss) involved in a seasonal mystery, while the third season will go into production later this year. More details will come over the next few months.<\/p>\n

\n\tEagle Eye Drama<\/a>, which is part of ITV Studios, makes Bookish \u00a0in association with Happy Duck Films<\/a>, and with supported from the Belgian Tax Shelter. Germany-based Beta Film<\/a> handles world sales as international distributor and PBS Distribution holds North American rights.<\/p>\n

\n\tInternationally,\u00a0Bookish has shopped\u00a0to over 100 territories<\/a>, including to Radio-Canada in Canda, HBO Max in Australia, RAI in Italy and AMC Networks in Latin America.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show follows Gatiss, who created the format, as unconventional bookshop owner Book, who helps police solve crimes in the years after World War II. He has a lavender marriage with Trottie (Polly Walker), which helps hide his sexuality during an era when homosexuality was illegal in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a third chapter coming for Gabriel Book. Mark Gatiss\u2018s cozy crime drama, Bookish, has landed a Season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[118847,126501,282780,156,282781,282782,111,139,69,437,152844],"class_list":["post-573798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-beta-film","tag-bookish","tag-eagle-eye-drama","tag-entertainment","tag-happy-duck-films","tag-mark-gatiss","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv","tag-uktv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}