Rebus

The compelling new story is set in contemporary Scotland and follows police detective John Rebus (Richard Rankin), in his late thirties, who finds himself at a psychological crossroads.

Directors: Niall MacCormick, Fiona Walton

Writer: Gregory Burke

Executive producers: Jill Green, Paula Cuddy, Eve Gutierrez, Isabelle Hultén, Tomas Axelsson, Sir Ian Rankin, Gregory Burke

Cast: Richard Rankin, Brian Ferguson, Amy Manson, Lucie Shorthouse, Thoren Ferguson, Caroline Lee-Johnson, Sean Buchanan, Michelle Duncan, Stuart Bowman, Noof Ousellam

Production company: Eleventh Hour Films

Commissioner: Viaplay

Episodes: Six-part series

Screen Scotland funding: Rebus accessed £400,000 through Screen Scotland’s Production Growth Fund to support the production to film in Scotland and provide vital training opportunities for local talent from diverse backgrounds to gain industry experience.

Synopsis

The compelling new story is set in contemporary Scotland and follows police detective John Rebus (Richard Rankin), in his late thirties, who finds himself at a psychological crossroads. At odds with a job increasingly driven by corporate technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter’s life by his ex-wife’s wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play – either as a family man or a police officer. In a world of divisive politics and national discord, does the law still have meaning, or is everyone reverting to an older set of rules? And if so, why shouldn’t Rebus do so too?