For season six, the murders are going overseas—and casting appropriately. Deadline brings the news that among the cast for the next season of Only Murders in the Building are David Tennant, Jodie Whittaker, Jim Broadbent, Richard Ayoade, Nicola Coughlan, and Kathryn Hunter. Or, in other words, the Tenth Doctor, the Thirteenth Doctor, Bridget Jones’s dad, Maurice Moss, a Derry Girl, and Syril Karn’s terrifying mother.
These actors have all played so many incredible roles that I could have summed them up using entirely different properties! But these seemed fun. Also joining the cast is Adrian Lukis, who has crossed over with several of the aforementioned performers in spirit if not in spacetime: he’s in the Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea (which maybe we’ll be able to see someday) and has had numerous appearances on British TV.
This powerhouse lineup of actors join stars Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, and a recurring cast that includes Jennifer Saunders, Sean Teale, Simone Ashley, Amar Chadha-Patel, Rhea Norwood, Matthew Beard, Sharon Horgan, and recently announced new recurring castmembers Martin Freeman, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Jamie Demetriou, Anjana Vasan, Jane Horrocks, Derek Jacobi, and Lesley Nicol. This is a LOT of murderers and/or suspects.
The sixth season of Only Murders in the Building is presently in production, and continues the story begun in the season five finale, as the three sleuths/podcasters work to solve the murder of Cinda Canning (Tina Fey). The show is co-created and written by Martin and John Hoffman; you can catch up on all the murdery fun (?) on Hulu.
