Suspect FIRST LOOK: James Nesbitt and Richard E. Grant star in new Channel 4 ...

Suspect FIRST LOOK: James Nesbitt and Richard E. Grant star in new Channel 4 ...
Suspect FIRST LOOK: James Nesbitt and Richard E. Grant star in new Channel 4 ...

James Nesbitt is set to star as a veteran detective alongside Richard E. Grant and Ben Miller in a new Channel 4 drama. 

The Cold Feet star, 56, will star in the leading role called Danny Frater who identifies his daughter's body when he thinks he's doing a routine ID check.  

It is then when Danny is left distraught when he realises the young woman in the mortuary is his young estranged daughter Christina. 

First look: James Nesbitt, 56, is set to star as a veteran detective alongside Richard E. Grant, 64, and Ben Miller in a new Channel 4 drama

First look: James Nesbitt, 56, is set to star as a veteran detective alongside Richard E. Grant, 64, and Ben Miller in a new Channel 4 drama

The post mortem then reveals that Christina has committed suicide, leaving Danny utterly devastated and seeking answers.

Danny and Christina had a complicated father-daughter relationship in recent years, but he refuses to accept that she would have ended her own life. 

He then set out on a mission for the truth and retraced the last days and hours of her life to discover what happened to his child.   

Danny then comes investigates those closest to his daughter including her partner Nicola (Niamh Algar), and her best friend, Maia (Antonia Thomas). 

New: The Cold Feet star will star in the leading role called Danny Frater who identifies his daughter Christina's body when he thinks he's doing a routine ID check; pictured 2019

New: The Cold Feet star will star in the leading role called Danny Frater who identifies his daughter Christina's body when he thinks he's doing a routine ID check; pictured 2019

He also gets in contact with her business partner, Jaisal (Sacha Dhawan), her godfather, Ryan (Sam Heughan), her mentor, Harry (Richard E. Grant) and finally her mother, Susannah and Danny's ex-wife (Anne-Marie Duff). 

 It is after these intense exchanges that he learns about her descent into delinquency. 

The story then follows Danny have to confront his own failings as a father while trying to make sense of the contradictory evidence.   

He has to then decided who, if anyone is responsible for Christina's death. 

Ensemble cast: Richard (pictured, 2021) plays Christina's mentor in the new show

Ensemble cast: Richard (pictured, 2021) plays Christina's mentor

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