Midwinter of the Spirit

A major ITV series based on Phil Rickman's much-loved character Reverend Merrily Watkins is due on air in autumn 2015, featuring a BAFTA award-winning cast.

The second instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: Merrily's new role as Diocesan Exorcist is not plain sailing, as signs of evil appear around the old city of Hereford...

THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES

'They'll follow you home... breathe down your phone at night... a prime target for every psychotic grinder of the dark satanic mills that ever sacrificed a chicken...'

Diocesan Exorcist: a job viewed by the Church of England with such extreme suspicion that they changed the name.

It's Deliverance Consultant now. Still, it seems, no job for a woman. But when the Bishop offers it to Merrily Watkins, parish priest and single mum, she's in no position to refuse.

It starts badly for Merrily and gets no easier. As an early winter slices through the old city of Hereford, a body is found in the River Wye, an ancient church is desecrated and signs of evil appear in the cathedral itself, where the tomb of a medieval saint lies in pieces.