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The new Dalgliesh reboot with Bartie Carvel was initially commissioned in October 2020 as a joint production between the U.K.'s Channel 5 and Acorn TV, which holds the rights to air most places outside of the U.K. and Ireland. Though the series wasn't a
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Acorn TV's new period-set mystery series Dalgliesh may feel fairly familiar to Anglophile audiences, given that it's based on a series of novels by P.D. James that originally began publishing in 1962 and continued for over four decades afterward. These books have spawned multiple small
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Following the bizarre and illogical "The Black Tower," the final installment of Acorn-TV’s Dalgliesh, A Taste for Death, mostly delivers, pulling together Dalgliesh’s great loss, his poetry, and his skills as a detective. "A Taste for Death" is set in the infamous Winter of
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As a mystery, The Black Tower is full of plot holes, a disappointment after the first book dramatized in Acorn TV’s Dalgliesh series, Shroud for a Nightingale, which was tightly and deftly plotted. The Black Tower, however, is troubling. The big reveal is a surprise — the genre demands it,
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Poet detective Adam Dalgliesh has returned in a new series called, obviously enough, Dalgliesh. It’s the first remake since the acclaimed and long-lived ITV/Masterpiece series aired from 1983 –1998 with Roy Marsden as Dalgliesh. This latest adaptation tackles three of the novels by the late P. D. James
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The Mr. Darcy of Crime is heading to AcornTV. Dalgliesh, P.D. James' famous detective, is getting a new series from the streaming service in conjunction with the U.K.'s Channel 5. James wrote the 14 or so Dalgliesh novels from 1962 to 2008; the ones adapted