{"id":12169,"date":"2022-03-14T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1602632"},"modified":"2022-03-14T10:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T09:38:33","slug":"holdings-conleth-hill-says-lead-character-has-none-of-the-cliches-of-tv-detectives","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/holdings-conleth-hill-says-lead-character-has-none-of-the-cliches-of-tv-detectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding\u2019s Conleth Hill says lead character has \u201cnone of the clich\u00e9s\u201d of TV detectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Flora Carr\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 14 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Conleth Hill has teased that his character in upcoming ITV murder mystery series Holding, adapted from Graham Norton\u2019s novel, has \u201cnone of the clich\u00e9s that\u2019s you\u2019d expect from a leading detective\u201d on TV.<\/p>\n

In the new series, Hill (best known for playing Varys in Game of Thrones) plays the lead role, local police officer Sergeant PJ Collins, who lives in a sleepy town and relies on comfort food.\u00a0<\/span>However, his mundane routine of half-hearted police work is interrupted following the mysterious death of a long-lost local legend.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a> for his extended\u00a0Big RT Interview<\/a>, Hill revealed that he first read Graham Norton\u2019s novel before being offered the role of PJ, and the \u201canti-hero\u201d aspect of the character appealed to him \u201cas a reader, not not even as an actor\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just love the ordinariness of the mundanity \u2013 of the non-achievement outsider aspect of him that doesn\u2019t matter how long he\u2019s here, [he\u2019ll] always be an outsider,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just thought he was a really multi-faceted character, but none of the kind of clich\u00e9s that you\u2019d expect from a leading detective and something. So yeah, [that anti-hero aspect] did appeal to me. And I think it was developed from the novel as well\u2026 so it was just a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Karen Cogan adapted the novel, with Dominic stating: \u201cIt\u2019s so exciting to be able to bring Graham\u2019s beautiful novel to the screen with the creative powerhouses that are Kathy Burke and Karen Cogan, with the brilliant Martina Niland producing.<\/p>

\u201cTo be writing my first scripts alongside Karen and to film with Conleth and such a talented Irish cast and crew in West Cork \u2014 where my father was from and my family still are \u2014 makes this even more special.\u201d<\/p>\n