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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? isn't anywhere close to the most popular of Agatha Christie's 66 novels. It came out the same year as Murder on the Orient Express and it didn't star one of her regularly scheduled detectives of Hercule Poirot,
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For the third and fourth episodes of Acorn TV’s The Chelsea Detective, director Darcia Martin and writer Liz Lake take over, but the format—leisurely plots, a crowd of likely suspects. and red herrings by the dozen—remains unchanged. That said, it’s great to see Max (Adrian Scarborough)
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AMC Networks is doubling down on series by Peter McKenna. The writer-producer behind AMC+'s hit series Kin has another new series coming to American shores. Hidden Assets, the six-episode series he developed (and wrote three episodes for), is heading to Acorn TV this Spring. The series — a co-production
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The more things change on Killing Eve, the more they stay the same. Villanelle is behind bars, but Eve has merely found herself a new high-heeled hurricane to fill the hole. This one has a bit more money, is technically one step higher than Villanelle on the food chain, and
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Odd couples solving mysteries is one of TV's most popular tropes, right after "people who solve mysteries in quint English villages." Put the two together, and you get some of TV's longest-running shows: Grantchester, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Inspector Morse, its spin-off, Inspector Lewis,
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In the opening episode of Acorn TV’s The Chelsea Detective, we saw how DI Max Arnold’s persistence, powers of observation, and intuition serve him well on a murder case but don’t help at all when it comes to his relationship with his ex-partner Astrid. Following the grand
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Unforgotten shocked viewers at the end of Season 4 by killing off lead DCI Cassie Stuart, played by actor Nicola Walker. The death came as a shock for multiple reasons, not the least of which was both the character and the actor had become synonymous with the series. That Cassie
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A long time ago — three seasons to be exact — seeing Villanelle walking down the hall pushing a hotel cart was the beginning of the thrill of the hunt, another creative killing by the world's silliest assassin. But Killing Eve is tired, exhausted in fact, as is our killer,
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PBS' new spring lineup, arriving on Sunday, March 20, brings a double dose of period drama heavy-hitters. At 8 p.m. ET Call The Midwife will begin its second decade with Season 11, returning to the springtime berth it typically occupies after last year's Fall edition. At
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Acorn TV is getting deeper into the business of picking up shows that do well for it when the initial network that greenlit it drops the ball. The streamer, well-known among fans of shows like Ms. Fisher and Agatha Raisin, which Acorn rescued from oblivion, has announced it is taking
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Grantchester Season 6 may have arrived late in the fall of 2021, but Season 7 isn't going to make us wait that long. Though there is no release date yet for the U.S., the series is gearing up for its return to British television later this month,
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As the name implies, Acorn TV's The Chelsea Detective is set in the Borough of Chelsea, a Thames-side area in west London that is now associated with elite billionaires, who are the only ones who can afford the area’s historic houses. But although the setting and some