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  • ‘The ABC Murders’ with John Malkovich is the Boxing Day highlight on BBC One
    December 12, 2018

    ‘The ABC Murders’ with John Malkovich is the Boxing Day highlight on BBC One

    The tradition of having some of the best telly on telly continues this holiday season with a number of specials coming to the UK courtesy of BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

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  • Q&A: Ashley Jensen Talks ‘Agatha Raisin’ Series 2
    November 18, 2018

    Q&A: Ashley Jensen Talks ‘Agatha Raisin’ Series 2

    “Apart from the fact that it looks absolutely stunning, it’s bolder, braver and funnier.”

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  • Here’s the first image from ‘Miss Fisher & The Crypt of Tears,’ headed to the big screen in 2019!
    October 28, 2018

    Here’s the first image from ‘Miss Fisher & The Crypt of Tears,’ headed to the big screen in 2019!

    The exploits of The Hon. Phryne Fisher in 1920s Melbourne, Australia, will lead her to murder, mystery and mayhem from London to British Palestine.

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  • ‘Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators’ heads to public television in 2019
    October 24, 2018

    ‘Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators’ heads to public television in 2019

    ‘Shakespeare & Hathaway — Private Investigators’ looks to be another gem of a series from the mind palace of Will Trotter, who also heads the BBC Daytime Drama Department in his spare time.

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  • DCI Vera Stanhope set for Northumberland return in 2019 for series 9
    September 17, 2018

    DCI Vera Stanhope set for Northumberland return in 2019 for series 9

    2-time Academy Award nominee Brenda Blethyn will don her trademark floppy fishing tackle shop hat to make the Northumberland countryside safe once again as Vera S9 is set for a 2019 premiere. Based on the bestselling Inspector Stanhope books by award-winning writer Ann Cleeves, series 9 will see DCI Vera Stanhope and her team are drawn into […]

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  • Preview the visually stunning ‘Maigret’ + the brilliant Rowan Atkinson
    September 9, 2018

    Preview the visually stunning ‘Maigret’ + the brilliant Rowan Atkinson

    Given his trademark pipe, fondness of fine alcohol and reliance on godlike intuition in solving cases, the character of Jules Maigret is frequently referred to as the Sherlock Holmes of France. Having first appeared in print in 1931, Maigret is the creation of Belgian author Georges Simenon who wrote 75 Maigret novels and is considered […]

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  • There’s more murder in the Cotswolds as new series of ‘Agatha Raisin’ returns
    August 9, 2018

    There’s more murder in the Cotswolds as new series of ‘Agatha Raisin’ returns

    Judging from the storylines of Agatha Raisin, Father Brown and Death in Paradise, seemingly quiet places one should never go if you love living would be the fictional villages of Carsley and Kembleford in the Cotswolds or the picturesque fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie. Based on the best-selling novels of M.C. Beaton, Agatha Raisin stars Ashley Jensen who packed up her London […]

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  • ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ becomes next John Le Carré novel headed to BBC1
    July 31, 2018

    ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ becomes next John Le Carré novel headed to BBC1

    Based on the 1983 John Le Carré spy novel, The Little Drummer Girl, BBC1 will follow up their earlier adaptation of another Le Carré novel, The Night Manager, with a 6-part series starring Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies, True Blood) as Israeli intelligence officer Becker. Florence Pugh (The Falling, Marcella) will star as ‘Charlie’, an unsuspecting young actress who strikes up an […]

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  • ‘Baptiste’ adds ‘Call the Midwife’ alum, Jessica Raine, to cast as filming begins
    July 29, 2018

    ‘Baptiste’ adds ‘Call the Midwife’ alum, Jessica Raine, to cast as filming begins

    As production filming begins in Antwerp, Ghent, Amsterdam and Deal in Kent on Baptiste, Call the Midwife alum Jessica Raine has been added to the cast alongside the recently added Tom Hollander (Rev, The Night Manager). The series, which is a spin-off of the BBC1 series The Missing, is set to focus on investigator Julien Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo). Hollander will play […]

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  • Filming begins as Endeavour’s Morse returns to make streets of Oxford safe in series 6
    July 26, 2018

    Filming begins as Endeavour’s Morse returns to make streets of Oxford safe in series 6

    As U.S. viewers settle in for Sundays series 5 finale of Endeavour on PBS, Shaun Evans is back at it both in front of and behind the camera as filming has begun on series 6. Sporting a new look complete with sunglasses and a moustache befitting of 1969, Evans will put his directorial mark on the […]

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