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Monday - True Detective, Sky Atlantic at 9pm
True Detective has come in for plenty of flak in its second season, but is the whole thing just one massive slow burn? That's what overnight reviews from the Us seem to be suggesting.
After steadily improving in recent weeks, the moody HBO drama's latest outing 'Black Maps and Motel Rooms' seems to have won over critics - maybe it's time to tune back in?
Tuesday - New Tricks, BBC One at 9pm
It's the end of an era as BBC One's long-running Golden Oldie crime drama is finally being pensioned off - though not before one last 10-part series.
Series 12 begins with the first of a two-parter in...
Monday - True Detective, Sky Atlantic at 9pm
True Detective has come in for plenty of flak in its second season, but is the whole thing just one massive slow burn? That's what overnight reviews from the Us seem to be suggesting.
After steadily improving in recent weeks, the moody HBO drama's latest outing 'Black Maps and Motel Rooms' seems to have won over critics - maybe it's time to tune back in?
Tuesday - New Tricks, BBC One at 9pm
It's the end of an era as BBC One's long-running Golden Oldie crime drama is finally being pensioned off - though not before one last 10-part series.
Series 12 begins with the first of a two-parter in...
- 8/3/2015
- Digital Spy
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The BBC has released a trailer for an upcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence stories, starring Jessica Raine (Hide) and David Walliams (The God Complex) in the lead roles. The series will cover two adventures for the husband-and-wife detective team across six episodes, beginning with The Secret Adversary and followed by N Or M?, and...
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The BBC has released a trailer for an upcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence stories, starring Jessica Raine (Hide) and David Walliams (The God Complex) in the lead roles. The series will cover two adventures for the husband-and-wife detective team across six episodes, beginning with The Secret Adversary and followed by N Or M?, and...
The post BBC Debuts Trailer for Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
- 7/14/2015
- by Philip Bates
- Kasterborous.com
Agatha Christie's novels could be adapted into modernised TV shows, says the company who owns the rights to the stories.
Acorn Productions has revealed plans to give the crime tales the "Sherlock treatment", following the success of the BBC's contemporary adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective novels.
Managing director Hilary Strong told Broadcast: "We are looking contemporary.
"We're in discussions at the moment about how we can do that. We can absolutely see the opportunity for bringing the plotlines into the modern day."
Sherlock has enjoyed great success since it started in 2010, with last month's third series finale pulling in 8.8 million viewers for BBC One.
The series - which is set in the modern day - has gathered a cult following and has spawned an official convention and a smartphone app.
BBC One has recently announced a traditional adaptation of Christie's books The Secret Adversary and N or M.
Acorn Productions has revealed plans to give the crime tales the "Sherlock treatment", following the success of the BBC's contemporary adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective novels.
Managing director Hilary Strong told Broadcast: "We are looking contemporary.
"We're in discussions at the moment about how we can do that. We can absolutely see the opportunity for bringing the plotlines into the modern day."
Sherlock has enjoyed great success since it started in 2010, with last month's third series finale pulling in 8.8 million viewers for BBC One.
The series - which is set in the modern day - has gathered a cult following and has spawned an official convention and a smartphone app.
BBC One has recently announced a traditional adaptation of Christie's books The Secret Adversary and N or M.
- 3/6/2014
- Digital Spy
David Walliams is set to star in a new crime series on BBC One. The comedic star will take a lead role as one half of married detective duo Tommy and Tuppence in 'Partners in Crime', a six-part series based on novelist Agatha Christie's two books, 'The Secret Adversary' and 'N or M'. David - who also co-wrote the series - said: ''In bringing these thrilling stories to the screen, it is our ambition for Tommy and Tuppence to finally take their rightful place alongside Poirot and Marple as iconic Agatha Christie characters.'' The programme is the first in a string of...
- 2/28/2014
- Virgin Media - TV
David Walliams is set to star in a new Agatha Christie adaptation to be shown on BBC One.
The comedian will take on the lead role in six-part series Partners in Crime, based on two Christie books, The Secret Adversary and N or M.
Walliams - who also wrote the adaptation - will appear as one half of married detective duo Tommy and Tuppence.
"In bringing these thrilling stories to the screen, it is our ambition for Tommy and Tuppence to finally take their rightful place alongside Poirot and Marple as iconic Agatha Christie characters," the 42-year-old said.
The adaptation is the first of several Christie programmes scheduled to appear on the BBC, to celebrate the author's 125th anniversary of birth. A series of documentaries about the famous crime writer - who died in 1976 - are also in the pipeline to mark the occasion.
Later in 2015, the channel will show...
The comedian will take on the lead role in six-part series Partners in Crime, based on two Christie books, The Secret Adversary and N or M.
Walliams - who also wrote the adaptation - will appear as one half of married detective duo Tommy and Tuppence.
"In bringing these thrilling stories to the screen, it is our ambition for Tommy and Tuppence to finally take their rightful place alongside Poirot and Marple as iconic Agatha Christie characters," the 42-year-old said.
The adaptation is the first of several Christie programmes scheduled to appear on the BBC, to celebrate the author's 125th anniversary of birth. A series of documentaries about the famous crime writer - who died in 1976 - are also in the pipeline to mark the occasion.
Later in 2015, the channel will show...
- 2/28/2014
- Digital Spy
David Walliams is set to star in a new crime series on BBC One. The comedic star will take a lead role as one half of married detective duo Tommy and Tuppence in 'Partners in Crime', a six-part series based on novelist Agatha Christie's two books, 'The Secret Adversary' and 'N or M'. David - who also co-wrote the series - said: ''In bringing these thrilling stories to the screen, it is our ambition for Tommy and Tuppence to finally take their rightful place alongside Poirot and Marple as iconic Agatha Christie characters.'' The programme is the first in a string of...
- 2/26/2014
- Virgin Media - TV
There's much to enjoy in Agatha Christie. Here's a selection of five of her best moments
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Although it's widely viewed as her masterpiece, the critics initially accused Christie of not playing fair. Breaking previous rules of detective fiction, the novel sees Hercule Poirot investigate Ackroyd's murder and slowly and spectacularly unravelling the mystery of the suicide of the woman Ackroyd loved. We won't spoil the twist for you.
The Body in the Library (1942)
"You've been dreaming, Dolly," Colonel Bantry tells his wife. "Bodies are always being found in libraries in books. I've never known a case in real life." Christie wrote in her foreword to this Miss Marple mystery that she wanted to do a variation on a well-known theme, with "a highly orthodox and conventional library" but "a wildly improbable and highly sensational body". She provides the reader with red herrings galore before Marple works out whodunnit.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Although it's widely viewed as her masterpiece, the critics initially accused Christie of not playing fair. Breaking previous rules of detective fiction, the novel sees Hercule Poirot investigate Ackroyd's murder and slowly and spectacularly unravelling the mystery of the suicide of the woman Ackroyd loved. We won't spoil the twist for you.
The Body in the Library (1942)
"You've been dreaming, Dolly," Colonel Bantry tells his wife. "Bodies are always being found in libraries in books. I've never known a case in real life." Christie wrote in her foreword to this Miss Marple mystery that she wanted to do a variation on a well-known theme, with "a highly orthodox and conventional library" but "a wildly improbable and highly sensational body". She provides the reader with red herrings galore before Marple works out whodunnit.
- 10/1/2010
- by Alison Flood
- The Guardian - Film News
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