Ardal O’Hanlon (Father Ted, My Hero) reprises his role as detective Jack Mooney, the current resident fish-out-of-water on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, as filming has begun on series 9 of Death in Paradise.
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With a premise of, “Something investigation-worthy happens somewhere rural and two policemen turn up to find out what’s gone on,” Neil Dudgeon, who plays DCI John Barnaby in Midsomer Murders, says that “the show can go on and on.”
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When filming begins in April, two-time Academy Award nominee Brenda Blethyn will reprise her role as DCI Stanhope to make the Northumberland countryside safe for another year.
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Series 4 is about to change life for the town’s charismatic, jazz-loving clergyman, Sidney.
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Clergyman Will Davenport, played by Tom Brittney of ‘Outlander’ fame, becomes DI Geordie Keating’s new crime-solving partner in 1950s Grantchester.
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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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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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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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After two series (four episodes total), ITV has announced a cunning plan that makes about as much sense as one of Baldrick’s in revealing that there are ‘no current plans’ for more episodes of Maigret, starring Rowan Atkinson. It’s not like there isn’t enough material to base additional episodes on as only 4 of author Georges […]
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In celebration of Sherlock Holmes Day on Tuesday, an ‘intercepted transmission’ of a seemingly innocent exchange between Whitehall grandee Mycroft Holmes and his consulting detective younger brother Sherlock hints that the British government is considering enlisting the help of members of the public in a mysterious project. Exactly what this ‘mysterious project’ might entail remains to be […]
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