BOOKISH: Creator and actor Mark Gatiss on new PBS detective series – Interview
The British period investigative procedural BOOKISH has its U.S. premiere on Sunday, January 11, on PBS. A second series is already in the making. BOOKISH creator Mark Gatiss stars as Gabriel Book, proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop in 1946 England. With his wide-ranging knowledge from all his establishment’s tomes, Book helps the police with their inquiries when murders occur. Book is also a gay man at a time when simply existing as such could lead to arrest and imprisonment, so he is married for the sake of appearance to his childhood best friend Trottie (Polly Walker). Gatiss is famed for […]Read On »


