BritBox Lands Two Highly-Anticipated Series 'The Sixth Commandment' & 'This England'

BritBox has scooped up two series for Fall 2023. One is The Sixth Commandment, a critically-acclaimed hit from the BBC; the other, This England, is a highly-anticipated title heading to Sky UK. Both come headlined by some of the biggest names in British acting, with Timothy Spall (Spencer) and Anne Reid (Sanditon) headlining The Sixth Commandment as real-life neighbors Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin, while Kenneth Branagh (Death on the Nile) takes on the role of now-ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson in This England.

The Sixth Commandment, which ran on the BBC in July 2023, is a dramatization of the Maids Moreton murders, which is considered one of the most complex criminal cases of the 21st century so far. In 2018, unemployed church deputy warden Ben Field was arrested by Thames Valley Police for the murders of teacher Peter Farquhar and his profoundly religious neighbor, Ann Moore-Martin, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He was convicted of manipulating, seducing, and murdering Farquhar, but not Moore-Martin, of whom he was convicted of fraud.

Made with the full cooperation of the Farquhar and Moore-Martin families, the four-part series was written by Sarah Phelps (A Very British Scandal) and directed by Saul Dibb (The Salisbury Poisonings), with Spall and Reid co-starring alongside Éanna Hardwicke (Normal People) as Field. Sheila Hancock (Unforgotten), Annabel Scholey (Doctor Who: Flux), and Ben Bailey Smith (Andor) also co-star. The U.K. press highly praised the series upon its release. The series will premiere on BritBox on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, and run on a weekly release schedule.