Cumberbatch's Parade's End, Elisabeth Moss drama, 'Hour' 2: First look

The first footage of Benedict Cumberbatch's World War One drama Parade's End, Elisabeth Moss's Top of the Lake and series two of The Hour has been released in a new BBC Drama trailer.

All three new shows feature in the broadcaster's impressive slate of big name stars and highly-anticipated series coming in late 2012 and 2013.



Cumberbatch's new miniseries, which is a co-production with HBO, is based on Ford Madox Ford's books and is written by Tom Stoppard. It will be the first of the new BBC drama commissions to air this year.

Mad Men star Moss will star alongside Holly Hunter in Top of the Lake, which is a six-part series about a missing girl in the New Zealand mountains.

Meanwhile, The Hour's second run is the follow-up to writer Abi Morgan's critically acclaimed 2011 series, which stars Romola Garai, Dominic West and Ben Whishaw.

Earlier today, the BBC confirmed that it would be giving a second series to hit BBC Two police drama Line of Duty.