Watch an exclusive clip from Gemma Whelan’s new cop series The Tower

Game of Thrones wasn’t set in Great Britain, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the cast. The show was a who’s who of great English talent, and many of them have moved on to star in other shows made in merry old England.

That includes Gemma Whelan, who played the fierce Yara Greyjoy on Game of Thrones. She leads a new cop show called The Tower, which is coming to BritBox, the streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV. Here’s the synopsis:

"Grounded in the terrifying realities of life on the beat, The Tower revolves around a shocking event in London’s East End in which a veteran cop and teenage girl are killed and a rookie cop goes missing…their seemingly only connection, the tower where the incident took place. Charged with figuring out what happened is DSI Sarah Collins (Gemma Whelan, Game of Thrones, Killing Eve), whose investigation takes her into the dark heart of policing in a complex and diverse city. Based on the novel by Kate London, a former detective who spent eight years in the Metropolitan Police’s homicide squad, the series co-stars Jimmy Akingbola (Kate & Koji, upcoming Bel-Air), Emmett J Scanlan (Peaky Blinders, Gangs of London) and Tahirah Sharif (Casualty, The Haunting of Bly Manor). Patrick Harbinson (Homeland, 24) serves as an executive producer in addition to writing the three-part drama based on the book by former UK detective Kate London. All episodes premiere on 12/1."

Below, Whelan’s character prods the seedy underbelly of society in a scene WiC has the pleasure of debuting exclusively:

See Game of Thrones alumni do their thing on BritBox

Naturally, plenty more Game of Thrones turn up on BritBox shows. See Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont) like you’ve never seen him before on Reyka:

"Reyka follows a flawed but brilliant South African criminal profiler, Reyka Gama (Kim Engelbrecht, The Flash, Dominion) who is haunted by her past. Having been abducted as a child by a farmer named Angus Speelman (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones), Reyka is traumatized by the experience – but this also helps her enter the minds of the world’s most notorious criminals and turn them inside out. In the drama, she returns home to investigates a string of brutal murders committed by a serial killer in the sugar cane fields of Kwa-Zulu-Natal."

And Sean Bean (Ned Stark) gets embroiled in the criminal underworld in Time:

"Mark Cobden is a husband and father who one night makes a horrible mistake that leads to the death of an innocent man. Tortured by his actions, Mark welcomes his four-year sentence as penance for his crime. Eric McNally is a dedicated prison officer who does his best to protect those in his charge.  However, when a dangerous convict gains leverage over Eric and threatens to hurt his family, a genuinely honest man is faced with an impossible choice. Two men on different sides of the bars in a UK prison, both trying to atone for their past actions while questioning is redemption is actually possible. Written by Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, Moving On, Broken) and starring Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, Snowpiercer) as Cobden and Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire, The Irishman) as McNally, Time is a powerful depiction of prison life and a raw study of punishment and penitence. The three-part limited run BritBox original is now streaming."

Even Rory McCann (the Hound) has a detective show coming up. There’s work for everybody!

You can learn more about BritBox here.

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