In 2009, Serkis voiced the role of the demon Screwtape in Focus on the Family's Radio Theatre audio adaptation of C. S. Lewis's "The Screwtape Letters". In 2010, Serkis was cast as William Hare, with Simon Pegg as Burke, in the John Landis black comedy film "Burke and Hare" based on the Burke and Hare murders in Scotland in 1828. He also featured in the TV series "The Accused", in "Liam's Story", written by Danny Brocklehurst and Jimmy McGovern.