Professor T's Ben Miller reveals ITV show's big mystery is finally solved
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Professor T star Ben Miller has teased that the new series will see the show's longest-running mystery finally solved.
The ITV crime drama, which has been on air since 2021, follows Professor Jasper Tempest (Miller), a brilliant University of Cambridge criminologist. For a long time there has been the question of whether the character killed his own dad.
The show is now back for a third series. And during an appearance on The One Show, Miller said viewers would finally get answers.
What, how, and why?
He explained: "The fascinating thing about the show is that the character of the professor himself… There are two mysteries in Professor T. There is a mystery every week, the whodunnit, every week. The bigger mystery is this sort of trauma that happened in his past.
"He has these really strange visions of being a child and holding a shotgun to his father’s chest. And there is some question – did he kill his own father? Was he somehow involved in his father’s mysterious death?"
Miller went on: "In this season, season three, we get the answers finally to those questions. They have been sort of teased all the way through. All through the previous two seasons they have been teasing... What was it? How did his father die? And we finally get the solution to that.”
What else happened on The One Show?
Miller also told how one of the similarities between him and the professor is that they both have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), which the NHS says is "a mental health condition where a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours".
“I myself have OCD,” said the actor. “I think one of the things… My OCD is not like his, it doesn’t show in the same way I suppose, but what I did feel would be really the most authentic way to do it was to sort of play the same feeling that I have when I am doing OCD behaviours, what’s going through my mind and have that kind of process."
He continued: "I have seen OCD done with other characters before, but it always seems to me to be from the outside in, rather than it being, you know, for the person who has OCD, the reason that we do the behaviours is that they provide some comfort in the moment.”
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