Magpie, Moonflower, and Marble Hall Murders
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Spooky season is a time for murder, mayhem, and blood, and since airing Grantchester and Baptiste back to back last year, Masterpiece has been getting in on the action. For 2022, the station is going all out on witches, killers, and death; oh my! Everything that's coming to
The Susan Ryeland Mysteries
PBS is presenting an all-female detective lineup this Fall, and the show firmly ensconced at the center of this block of mystery programming is the highly anticipated new series Magpie Murders. Based on the 2016 novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and adapted by the same, the story is
The Susan Ryeland Mysteries
The summer TV season is here, and with it, the usual "Summer of Mysteries" that PBS has been reliably airing for the better part of a decade, save last year when pandemic delays upended the schedule. But 2021 wasn't short on mystery series; instead of the
The Susan Ryeland Mysteries
While Masterpiece certainly has no shortage of prestige mystery series in its stable (see also: Endeavour, Grantchester, Van Der Valk, Vienna Blood, Baptiste and many more) there are markedly fewer shows that feature a female lead taking charge of solving crimes. There's Miss Scarlet & the Duke, of
The Susan Ryeland Mysteries
Ever since the debut of Sherlock Holmes, murder mysteries have tended to skew towards an all-male cast of characters. From Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings to Endeavour Morse and Fred Thursday, most of these series are male-centric stories, viewpoints, and attitudes. But with mystery audiences tending to skew
The Susan Ryeland Mysteries
Though it does not have an announced release date yet, Masterpiece's Susanne Simpson confirmed in January that Magpie Murders was planned for a 2022 release, probably in the second half of the year. The series stars Lesley Manville (World On Fire) as Susan Ryeland, mystery author Alan Conway&
Magpie Murders
The Lesley Manvilleaissance is officially in full swing. The actress hit the Masterpiece drama lotto with her turn as one of the headlining members of the World on Fire ensemble, followed by landing the position of Princess Margaret in the final two seasons of The Crown over on Netflix. Now
Magpie Murders
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