Release date confirmed for the BBC’s new crime drama

The Haidresser Mysteries has been created and co-written by Jim Cartwright and stars Sally Phillips as the main character Lily Petal, a hairstylist in London who leaves the city for a small town.

The cast also features Charlotte Jordan, who played Daisy Midgeley in Coronation Street, starring as Clary.

After Sally’s character moves up north, a series of murders occurs, and she gets Clary involved to help investigate.

When will The Hairdresser Mysteries be released?

It has been confirmed that the series will premiere on Friday, July 17, with all six episodes being made available to watch on BBC iPlayer and the first episode airing on BBC One at 2 pm.

The cast of the show will also feature Ben Castle-Gibb, Clive Rowe, and Sunetra Sarker, who is best known for her role in Casualty as Dr Zoe Hanna.

Lily’s intuition and detail-oriented nature, thanks to her job as a hairdresser, make her quite the detective, and the show follows her going around trying to solve each case.

Speaking about what drew Sally to the project, she said: “It was Jim Cartwright’s writing.

“He is an actual icon.

“There’s a poetry to his writing – I remember one line I said was ‘I gave a mammoth’s trim to a hairy old shaman type.’

“He just has those funny bones that comes from a love of the peculiarities of humans.

“You don’t turn down a Jim Cartwright thing in a hurry.

“He loves the people he writes about and for.

“I also think a hairdresser detective is the gift that keeps on giving – there’s an inherent comedy of the idea of hairdressers at a crime scene.

“But I think it makes sense because people tend to just naturally open up when someone’s having a haircut.”

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