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It's been over 120 years since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes and his constant companion and scribe, Dr. Watson, but the continuing mileage his story generates is remarkable. So is the success these endless adaptations have; from Robert Downey Jr. to Benedict Cumberbatch, there seems to
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Taking Miss Scarlet & The Duke as a holistic whole, the series' first season feels as if it could be properly divided into two parts. The first four episodes — the bulk of the season's story — was the struggle Eliza has in being at the forefront of women
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Between the success of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, Jed Mercurio has become one of the U.K.'s leading purveyors of thriller television. His latest, Bloodlands, is the first produced under his own company, Hat Trick Mercurio Television. The series is referred to as an "Irish noir&
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Miss Scarlet & The Duke began with the disappearance of Henry Scarlet, Eliza's father. Despite knowing her father's drinking habits, a gut instinct drove her to tell Duke, only to have him scoff at her concerns. Eliza's instincts were right; her father was dead,
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It's official: Popular female-led mystery series Agatha Raisin will officially return for a fourth season on streaming service Acorn TV. Based on MC Beaton’s best-selling novels, the series follows a London PR whizz turned amateur sleuth, who becomes entangled in mischief, mayhem, and murder when tries to
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This week's Miss Scarlet & The Duke kicks off a mere day or so after the events of "Deeds Not Words" and Eliza's successful bringing down of a bomb plot to take out Parliament. It's also the moment when she realizes that
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When Miss Scarlet & The Duke premiered, it seemed to be following the stereotypical format of any period piece "lady detective" series. The character arrives and forthwith finds herself in need of solving a crime. Despite lots of people saying "A lady detective!?" in shock and
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Stream the entire series now with WETA Passport. In the Miss Scarlet & The Duke premiere, Eliza did all the things a lead character does in shows like this. She managed to solve a case with her own ingenuity, and then she managed to correct her rookie mistake in solving
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Fans of female detectives have a brand new series to look forward to. Magpie Murders, a new mystery series coming to Masterpiece in the not-too-distant future has cast Lesley Manville (The Crown) in the lead role. Deadline first announced the series back in June of 2020, when PBS boarded the
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Stream the entire series now with WETA Passport. When someone mentions private detectives in Victorian London, the first things that spring to mind are deerstalker hats, three pipe problems, and all-male casts. Sherlock Holmes has been the British detective default standard for a century. Perhaps that's why the
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Fans of the long-running mystery series Vera will be excited to learn that ITV has plans to adapt another of author Ann Cleeves' works, a mystery entitled The Long Call. The Long Call follows the story of Detective Inspector Matthew Vwenn, an intriguing and flawed protagonist, who returns with
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Mystery series Baptiste will return to Masterpiece for a second season, one which will apparently look quite a bit different from the first. The BBC has released a series of first-look images from Season 2, which show us a much-changed detective Julien Baptiste, along with a look at new incoming