Our favorite 5 interviews of all time, British mystery edition!
Tellyspotting is 15 years old, so we’re sharing our 15 favorite interviews – five each in mystery, comedy and drama.
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‘Inspector Lynley’ getting reboot based on Elizabeth George novels
In a bit of a nod to validate the mindset that there are no new ideas, the brilliant Inspector Lynley Mysteries is getting a reboot courtesy of BritBox. The original series, which premiered in 2001, was close to perfection featuring the aristocratic (as in the 8th Earl of Asherton) Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathanial Parker) and […]
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Honoré Police Department welcomes DI Mervin Wilson to ‘Death in Paradise’ for S14 this Christmas!
When DI Neville Parker’s time on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie as head of the Honoré Police Department came to a close, the search was on once again for a new DI to solve what seems to be an endless array of weekly murders on the tiny fictional picturesque island of Saint Marie. DI Parker’s time […]
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‘Shakespeare & Hathaway’ to return for S5!
At long last, the BBC has confirmed that Shakespeare & Hathaway will return for a 5th series. Filming is currently underway in Stratford-upon-Avon with Jo Joyner, Mark Benton and Patrick Walshe McBride reprising their roles as Luella, a.k.a. Lu, Shakespeare, Frank Hathaway and Sebastian Brudenell. Expressing what can easily be categorized as youthful exhuberance, the cast […]
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‘Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs Doyle’ headed to PBS this December!
Lucy Worsley Holmes vs Doyle. Photo: BBC Studios/PBS Unfortunately, it’s not a new series of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman but, for my money, it’s the next best thing as the brilliant Lucy Worsley will tackle the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and his literary creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an upcoming 3-part documentary […]
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Masterpiece announces new ‘Maigret’ adaptation on PBS
Photo courtesy: PBS Masterpiece and Playground Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, the first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector (Police Judiciaire detective Commissaire) Jules Maigret has gone into production in Budapest which, once again, doubles for post-WWII France. According to Masterpiece and Playground, the Golden Globe […]
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‘Moonflower Murders’, ‘Magpie Murders’ sequel, premieres Sunday on PBS!
Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) and Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan). Courtesy of Eleventh Hour Films and MASTERPIECE. Lesley Manville as editor turned sleuth Susan Ryeland and Timothy McMullan as fictional detective Atticus Pünd reprise their roles when the Magpie Murders band gets back together for Anthony Horowitz 2020 sequel, Moonflower Murders, premiering this Sunday on Masterpiece. In addition to […]
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Shipton Abbott streets not quite yet safe as filming begins on 3rd series of ‘Beyond Paradise’.
Kris Marshall as Humphrey, Isaac Vincent-Norgate as Ryan and Sally Bretton as Martha in Beyond Paradise. Red Planet Pictures/Joss Barratt DI Humphrey Goodman (a.k.a. Kris Marshall) spent three years in ‘paradise’ on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie. Remember, it was DI Goodman who initially arrived to investigate the death of his predecessor, DI Richard Poole, […]
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Nothing says ‘Midsomer Murders Mayhem’ like a mysterious death in “Strangler’s Wood”
Midsomer Murders Mayhem continues to showcase the idea that things aren’t always that rosy when living in a picturesque small English village. In this weeks episode, it’s the town of Midsomer Worthy, which appears to be home to a strangler who was never caught, evidently.
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Nothing says ‘Midsomer Murders Mayhem’ like death and crop circles in “The Electric Vendetta”
Midsomer Murders Mayhem continues to showcase the idea that things aren’t always that rosy when living in a picturesque small English village. This week, we begin “The Electric Vendetta” when the body of a criminal is found in a crop circle, and the locals blame extra-terrestrial activity for the death. Barnaby, however, is not convinced.
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