Telemystery: BBC Orders Murder, a BAFTA-Winning Drama, to Series

Last night the single episode drama Murder was honored with a BAFTA Award and today BBC has announced that it will be expanded into a series.

"We have always felt that Murder had the potential to re-invent the crime series," said executive producer Rob Pursey. "With the new BBC commission we will strive to make that a reality. We are really grateful to the BBC for supporting this radical new drama."

The series premise is an unusual one: with conflicting stories about what happened prior to, during, and just after a murder, where does the truth lie?

Here's the synopsis of the episode that won the BAFTA: "A woman lies dead in a Nottingham flat, her terrified sister barricaded in the bathroom. At 2.00am a young man in a bloodstained shirt is pulled over for speeding. The three only met that afternoon — what happened in those fatal hours? All there is to go on is what the two survivors say."