With returning series set to premiere later this year from Grantchester, Father Brown, Death in Paradise, Shakespeare & Hathaway, Shetland, Midsomer Murders, Vera and, of course, Endeavour, 2020 is shaping up to be another banner year from a drama standpoint for the BBC, ITV, PBS and your local public television station. With Endeavour, Shaun Evans reprises his role as […]
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While I have been a huge fan of BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra for a number of years, I had somehow never heard of the Charley Paris Mystery series. A friend who was in town recently turned me on to it and once he said that it starred Bill Nighy, I was all in.
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When the 7th series of Endeavour premieres at 8p this coming Sunday on ITV, it will be without an integral member of the cast. Shaun Evans (Endeavour Morse) has revealed to RadioTimes.com that Joan Thursday, the daughter of Endeavour’s boss, Fred Thursday and played by Sara Vickers, would not be a part of the forthcoming series. But…she’ll be back!
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As UK fans of Endeavour make plans to settle in next month (9 February to be exact) for the premiere of series 7, Shaun Evans (DS Endeavour Morse) has teased that tensions may hit breaking point between the two during the upcoming series. Set in 1970, writer Russell Lewis told the press recently that “…Oxford’s Finest will head into […]
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Popular Father Brown character Sister Boniface will be getting her own spin-off series following the announcement that BritBox North America has commissioned a drama based on the character who first appeared in episode 6 of series 1 of Father Brown, “The Bride of Christ”. The initial 10-part series has been created and written by Jude Tindall (Father […]
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Miss Fisher & The Crypt of Tears, the film version of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries starring Essie Davis as the Hon. Phryne Fisher will make it’s way to theaters in Australia and New Zealand in the coming weeks with a North America release not long after. Hopefully, it will soon find a home on public television stations across America in the not-too-distant future.
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Unforgotten, starring the brilliant Nicola Walker (MI5, Last Tango in Halifax, Scott & Bailey) and the equally as brilliant Sanjeev Bhaskar (Goodness Gracious Me, Kumars at No. 42, Yesterday) in the lead roles as DCI Cassie Stuart and DS Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan, has become one of the mainstays of the PBS Masterpiece series line-up since its premiere […]
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While public television fans of the ‘little engine that could’ British mystery series, Midsomer Murders, are getting set for the series 16 premiere within the next couple of months (March 2020 to be exact), UK viewers are settling in for the ITV’s series 21 premiere at 8p on the 21st of January. In the era […]
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Known throughout the world as the creator of the much loved fictional detectives Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth, author Marion Chesney Gibbons, a.k.a. MC Beaton, died Monday at the age of 83 after a short illness.
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Once again, there is joy in Mudville as Shetland, the murder mystery drama starring Douglas Henshall (Primeval), will return for two more series. Henshall will return as DI Jimmy Perez who will continue to investigate what seems to be an endless string of murders for the Shetland police force. As series 5 is set to premiere on public […]
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