Telemystery News: New Trailer for HBO's The Casual Vacancy

A new trailer for the adaptation of J. K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy has been released by HBO (below). The book is the first written by Rowling after completing her series of Harry Potter young adult novels. Not a mystery per se, but there are elements of suspense in the storyline.

In the teleplay, as the Pagford Parish Council prepares for a vote on what will become of Sweetlove House — a town institution and community center serving the poorer residents — Chairman Howard Mollison and his wife Shirley, who want to turn it into a tourist-destination spa, look to neutralize the threat of everyman council member Barry, a solicitor and defender of the current Sweetlove House mission. When Barry's sudden death leaves a "casual vacancy" on the council, the race to fill his seat, and determine the fate of Sweetlove, stirs up drama among residents. While Howard and Shirley push their submissive son Miles to run for election, Barry's friend and doctor, Parminder, rallies behind reluctant school headmaster Colin, while Barry's bullying brother Simon looks to capitalize off of family tragedy. Elsewhere, Terri, Barry's former neighbor and a struggling meth addict, finds it hard to stay clean while her troubled daughter Krystal takes drastic measures to help. Later, Simon's teenaged son Andrew, a.k.a. Arf, looks to expose the hypocrisy in Pagford by bringing his Uncle Barry back from the dead.

Directed by Jonny Campbell from a script by Sarah Phelps, the HBO miniseries aired earlier this year in the UK. The first two of its three parts premieres on Wednesday, April 29th, 2015, with the third and final part airing Thursday, April 30th.