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When Agatha Christie's Poirot finally finished its run in 2013, it was a watershed moment, as British TV struggled to figure out how to continue to tap into one of its most celebrated (and prolific) writers, following the conclusion of such a genre-defining series. The eventual decision was
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This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries cold open is the most gruesome yet, featuring a female factory worker thrown into a machine. It's horrible enough to upset the unflappable Dr. Mac, who turns up at Phryne's house first thing the next morning,
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The period mystery series Vienna Blood recently wrapped up its first season on Masterpiece, but the fate of the show remains uncertain. The series stars Matthew Beard and as a doctor and a detective inspector who solve crimes in 1900s Vienna. Beard stars as Max Liebermann, a 20-something middle-class British-Jew
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Mark your calendars, The Missing fans. Spin-off series Baptiste is officially headed to Masterpiece this spring. The six-part series will feature Turkish-born French actor Tchéky Karyo reprising his role as as the insightful and stubborn French detective Julien Baptiste in a story that takes place two years after the events
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This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries cold open gets straight to the point, as the body of a young girl washes up on the beach in the dark. She's one of the disadvantaged girls Phryne is teaching social graces to, along with Jane and
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Last week, Vienna Blood left the mystery as background noise to the lives Max Liebermann and Oskar Reinhardt are living in the final years of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. This week continues that trend, opening with Max at the hospital, where he's openly growing weary of Professor Gruner and
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The Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' cold open begins with a lady dunking her paintbrushes in water as she finishes work for the day. She starts up a music box to keep her bird company as she gets ready to leave. But the bird dies, and then she
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The final mystery of Vienna Blood starts with a cold open of a young man in a military uniform, running through a forest. It's short-lived, as the series cuts back to the Liebermann household, who have gathered to celebrate patriarch Mendel's birthday. Max is there, sans
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In its seventh episode, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries abandons the seemingly-unrelated cold open for a round at the pub with Bert. He's drinking it up with his war vet pals Thommo (Chris Davis) and Ronnie Cliff (Ben Prendergast). But tragedy strikes when Thommo is deliberately hit
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Last week's Vienna Blood ended on the revelation that Reinhardt and Max are chasing a serial killer. They have some clues as to who it is already. He's a soldier, a nationalist, who is either part of or inspired by the Brotherhood of Primal Fire. His
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In the sixth episod of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' first season, the cold open starts backstage at the play Miss Fisher is attending with Dot for her birthday, Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddygore (or The Witch's Curse). Actor Walter Copland (Peter Cousens), who stars
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Get ready, mystery fans, an all new season of Grantchester will be here sooner than you think. The popular period series will return for its fifth season - and first full run without original star James Norton - beginning on Sunday, June 14. If that feels a bit on the