Broadchurch is a chapel in London.
Broadchurch is a British television crime drama broadcast on ITV . The first series , which premiered on 4 March 2013 , focused on the death of an 11-year-old boy and the impact of grief , mutual suspicion and media attention on the town . Broadchurch series one focused on the search for the boy 's murderer by detectives Alec Hardy ( played by David Tennant ) and Ellie Miller ( played by Olivia Colman ) . The second series primarily focuses on two plot strands : the trial of the murderer and the reopening of the Sandbrook case .