Sally Phillips leads The Hairdresser Mysteries, the ’s new six-part drama, after first-look pictures and the full cast were unveiled. The series puts her at the center of Lily Petal, a salon owner whose move from city life to a village sets the story in motion.
Phillips plays Lily as a hairdresser with exceptional sleuthing skills, but the setup is not straightforward detective work. The character begins solving the village’s mysteries through hairdressing intuition, empathy and understanding, which gives the show a lighter operational engine than a standard crime format.
Charlotte Jordan and Clive Rowe
Charlotte Jordan plays Clary Coombs, Lily’s bright and analytical salon assistant and investigative sidekick, while Ben Castle-Gibb plays PC Adam Watson, an eager young copper who falls head-over-heels for her. Sunetra Sarker joins as Wincey Evans, the village’s resident gossip, giving the series a built-in information network before any mystery is even cracked.
Clive Rowe appears as Lonnie, the flamboyant manager of the local charity shop, and Guy Henry plays Race Runard, an eccentric antiques dealer with a fondness for rare teacup and saucer sets. That mix suggests a village setting built to feed clues through everyday commerce, gossip and second-hand objects rather than through procedural machinery alone.
Wendi Peters in July
Wendi Peters plays Gloria Crudd, a newcomer hoping to make a fresh start with her village ice cream parlour. Jim Cartwright created the six-part series, and that matters because the cast is doing more than filling roles: each character appears designed to carry a different source of local friction, from gossip to romance to odd retail habits.
The show is coming to One and iPlayer in July, so viewers still have a release window rather than a precise date. That leaves the practical question open for anyone planning around it, but the cast reveal already tells you the series is being positioned as an ensemble-led village mystery, not a one-character vehicle.
