{"id":26835,"date":"2022-12-08T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1753058"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:51:08","slug":"strike-producer-cracks-appear-in-cormoran-and-robins-relationship","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/strike-producer-cracks-appear-in-cormoran-and-robins-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike producer: \u2018Cracks appear\u2019 in Cormoran and Robin\u2019s relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Patrick Cremona\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 08 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Strike returns to BBC One this weekend with its new season <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/strike-season-five-troubled-blood\/&quot;\">Troubled Blood<\/a> \u2013 and one of the show\u2019s producers has teased that viewers can expect cracks to appear in the working relationship between Cormoran (Tom Burke) and Robin (Holliday Grainger).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s an element of continuation from previous seasons but in this season both go through parallel emotional journeys,\u201d explained producer Alex Rendell. \u201cRobin is dealing with her impending divorce, she\u2019s also running the office while Strike is away and she\u2019s got some new staff that she has to deal with, which is quite taxing at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cStrike is dealing with his very ill aunt, so there\u2019s an emotional squeeze on him there. His estranged father Jonny Rokeby is also trying to contact him, so there\u2019s an emotional vice on Strike and some cracks start appearing.\u201d<\/p> <p>Meanwhile, Tom Edge \u2013 who has once again adapted the script from a novel by JK Rowling (published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith) \u2013\u00a0 added that \u201cthere\u2019s a lot going on\u201d with both characters under the surface, even if their agency initially seems to be in a settled period.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Robin\u2019s divorce was \u201cproving really taxing\u201d and that Matthew (Kerr Logan) was \u201cbeing extremely difficult and using it as an opportunity to punish her\u201d.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Strike\" troubled=\"\" blood=\"\" trailer=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ffF0s5h7VJc?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p dir=\"&quot;auto&quot;\">Regarding Cormoran, he added: \u201cHis aunt Joan has just been diagnosed with a very aggressive and fast-moving cancer and for Strike this really begins to open some old wounds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"&quot;auto&quot;\">\u201cHe is somebody who doesn\u2019t want to be needed by family and prefers to keeps things emotionally at an arm\u2019s length and the diagnosis and the obligation to be close and to help out really brings to the surface some challenging questions for him.\u201d\u200c<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;editor-content\" mb-lg=\"\" hidden-print=\"\" js-piano-locked-content=\"\" data-placement=\"&quot;Body&quot;\">\n<p><strong>Strike: Troubled Blood will premiere on BBC One on Sunday 11th December, while Strike seasons 1-4 are available now on\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/b093ypxy\/strike&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">BBC iPlayer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking for something else to watch? 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For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0<a title=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-safelink=\"&quot;true&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;1&quot;\">Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Cremona Published: Thursday, 08 December 2022 at 12:00 am Strike returns to BBC One this weekend with its new season Troubled Blood \u2013 and one of the show\u2019s producers has teased that viewers can expect cracks to appear in the working relationship between Cormoran (Tom Burke) and Robin (Holliday Grainger). \u201cThere\u2019s an element [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26836,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/strike-producer-cracks-appear-in-cormoran-and-robins-relationship-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/strike-producer-cracks-appear-in-cormoran-and-robins-relationship-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/strike-producer-cracks-appear-in-cormoran-and-robins-relationship-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/strike-producer-cracks-appear-in-cormoran-and-robins-relationship-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/strike-producer-cracks-appear-in-cormoran-and-robins-relationship-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/strike-producer-cracks-appear-in-cormoran-and-robins-relationship-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/strike-producer-cracks-appear-in-cormoran-and-robins-relationship-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Patrick Cremona Published: Thursday, 08 December 2022 at 12:00 am Strike returns to BBC One this weekend with its new season Troubled Blood \u2013 and one of the show\u2019s producers has teased that viewers can expect cracks to appear in the working relationship between Cormoran (Tom Burke) and Robin (Holliday Grainger). \u201cThere\u2019s an element&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/26835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}