Rejected by his family and the Evangelical religious community known as ‘The Barum Brethren,’ Matthew Venn (
Ben Aldridge) walked away from his hometown of North Devon twenty years ago.
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British streamer BritBox has shot The Long Call in four episodes
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Now a detective, he returns to the small and deceptively sleepy community with his husband, Jonathan (
Declan Bennett), both to mourn his father (at
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Ben Aldrigde takes the lead role as detective inspector Matthew Venn
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a distance) and take charge of his first major murder case. Although the more Venn investigates, the more he finds his worlds colliding as he’s slowly drawn
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The series is based on a book by Ann Cleeves
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back into the same web he tried to escape decades earlier. And then his husband gets implicated in a murder case. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:
