At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Celia Imrie, Ian Richardson, Neve McIntosh, Christopher Lee, Richard Griffiths, Lynsey Baxter, June Brown, Fiona Shaw, Spike Milligan, Warren Mitchell, Eric Sykes, Steve Pemberton, Stephen Fry, Gregor Fisher, Zoë Wanamaker, John Sessions, Andrew N. Robertson, Olga Sosnovska, Mark Williams, Windsor Davies, James Dreyfus, Sean Hughes, Cameron Powrie, George Antoni, Andrew Robertson