JK Rowling's hard-boiled Cormoran Strike detective books will make the jump to telly in just a few weeks' time.

BBC One is in the midst of adapting the crime thrillers that Rowling wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, starting first with Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling beginning on Sunday, August 27 at 9pm.

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The Musketeers' Tom Burke stars in the series as Cormoran Strike, a mentally-scarred soldier-turned-private-detective who takes on dangerous cases from his dingy West End office.

This first story revolves around Strike's hiring to investigate the supposed suicide of supermodel Lula Landry — a case that quickly unravels into a deeper conspiracy and puts his life at risk.

The Borgias' Holliday Grainger co-stars with Tom Burke as Strike's partner Robin Ellacott. EastEnders' Elarica Gallacher and Taboo's Leo Bill play the doomed model Lula Landry and her brother John Bristow.

Gallacher has previous experience with JK Rowling projects, having had a small role in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince as a waitress at Surbiton Station.

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The BBC first announced back in 2014 that it planned to adapt the Strike series — The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil — as three "event dramas".

Rowling's The Casual Vacancy was previously turned into a three-part BBC One drama starring Keeley Hawes, Sir Michael Gambon and Emilia Fox back in 2015.

Their latest collaboration, Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling, has been adapted for television by Outcasts scribe Ben Richards and The Crown's Tom Edge.

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