The Queen of Crime Novels
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In the first episode of the BBC and BritBox miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, there was an abundance of table setting (literally and figuratively) to introduce Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), her assistant Mary (Anjana Vasan) and the ensemble of family and friends who orbit her bed
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The world of Agatha Christie – spread over dozens of novels and decades of big and small screen adaptations – has such a distinct tonal and structural language that you can spend an entire hour inside one of her mysteries and only clock by the end that the inciting murder hasn'
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The Welsh cultural resurgence in the U.K. is one of the feel-good stories of the 2020s, but most Americans have no idea which of the "British" actors they've seen are actually Welsh. (Michael Sheen may be the big exception to this rule, simply because
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Ever since the early 1980s BBC debut of Miss Marple, starring Agatha Christie's handpicked star Joan Hickson in the titular role, adaptations of the celebrated English author have been a reliable ratings draw. The BBC's Partners in Crime followed in the mid-1980s before ITV struck
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BritBox and Channel 4 initially announced they would team up to produce Travels with Agatha Christie with David Suchet in June 2024. The five-part docuseries features David Suchet, the man who became a household name playing the author’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, paying it back by uncovering
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The first images from the star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero have arrived, and this year's annual mystery adaptation promises escapism alongside its whodunit. We've got coastal views, heated summer soirees, and what looks like a visit to Wimbledon Centre Court. The
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It was the end of March when we first reported that Netflix was stepping up from doing modern Agatha Christie-style mystery knock-offs like the Knives Out mystery series of films, and were getting into the real-deal Christie works, aiming to out-BBC the BBC by doing its
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that of the series that debuted on PBS’ Mystery! in the 1980s, three are considered the defining adaptations of iconic British sleuths: Jeremy Brett in Sherlock Holmes, Joan Hickson in Miss Marple, and David Suchet in Poirot, which eventually was rebranded as Agatha Christie’
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Standalone Agatha Christie adaptations are usually high-profile affairs, full of A-list British names, but the latest limited series from the BBC and BritBox, Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero, may have outdone itself. Then again, it has a lot to live up to, as the project was confirmed in
Lucy Worsley
Popular historian Lucy Worsley’s first TV appearance was in 2009 for the documentary Inside the Body of Henry VIII, joining a medical doctor and a biographer in a special that examined the king’s physical condition on the 500th anniversary of his ascension to the throne. Worsley commented that
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Netflix continues to spend 2024 as a dominant force in the streaming landscape, while traditional production companies race to catch up any way they can with evolving technologies. On the same day that the BBC released its annual plan that would put the public broadcaster in a £492m deficit hole,
Murder Is Easy
In the newest Agatha Christie adaptation, Murder is Easy, Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) and Bridget Conway (Morfydd Clark) put their amateur sleuthing skills to use investigating murders in the small English town of Wychwood. Initially released in December 2023 in the UK, this nimble reworking of a lesser-known classic