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'Agatha Christie's Seven Dials' Introduces Superintendent Battle
The trailer for 'Agatha Christie's Seven Dials' introduces Christie's long-ignored fourth detective, who will finally get his due.
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The trailer for 'Agatha Christie's Seven Dials' introduces Christie's long-ignored fourth detective, who will finally get his due.
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BritBox's rise from the nichiest-niche afterthought of a streaming service to the destination for British programming has been a slow climb since it was first announced seven years ago. However, having made three successful standalone Agatha Christie miniseries in partnership with the BBC, the streaming service is now
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BritBox's commitment to continuing the Agatha Christie adaptation legacy is commendable, and more importantly, one that has been so successful that even Netflix is trying to create its own Agatha Christie Universe (the ACU, if you will). Up until now, BritBox has been partnering with the BBC to
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Be still my heart! While no one at BritBox has responded to queries about this, Deadline reports that BritBox and the BBC are set to expand their current co-produced line-up of Agatha Christie shows with a brand-new series starring the author herself. The fictional mystery-of-the-week series revolves around a mysterious
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It is accepted conventional wisdom that Agatha Christie has three major sleuths in her canon: Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and Tommy & Tuppence Beresford. Poirot and Marple are obvious candidates, as both appear in upwards of dozens of novels and short stories; however, Tommy & Tuppence's popularity
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It only took the BBC five years and three Agatha Christie adaptations before it returned to its most recent primary adaptor of Christie novels, Sarah Phelps (The Sixth Commandment). Phelps made herself into something of a U.K. household name after she did a run of five Christie adaptations in
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As is often the case in murder mysteries, a man behaved very badly and everyone in his proximity paid dearly. In the BBC and BritBox’s miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, the collateral all told is two murders — Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston) and her estate barrister,
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Credit to Towards Zero, a good murder mystery solution should feel, in retrospect, inevitable, even if we didn’t necessarily see them coming. Granted, the small number of suspects in Towards Zero meant that the grand reveal of Neville Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) as the killer was pretty likely. Purely numerically,
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In the first episode of the BBC and BritBox miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, there was an abundance of table setting (literally and figuratively) to introduce Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), her assistant Mary (Anjana Vasan) and the ensemble of family and friends who orbit her bed
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The world of Agatha Christie – spread over dozens of novels and decades of big and small screen adaptations – has such a distinct tonal and structural language that you can spend an entire hour inside one of her mysteries and only clock by the end that the inciting murder hasn'
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The Welsh cultural resurgence in the U.K. is one of the feel-good stories of the 2020s, but most Americans have no idea which of the "British" actors they've seen are actually Welsh. (Michael Sheen may be the big exception to this rule, simply because of
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Ever since the early 1980s BBC debut of Miss Marple, starring Agatha Christie's handpicked star Joan Hickson in the titular role, adaptations of the celebrated English author have been a reliable ratings draw. The BBC's Partners in Crime followed in the mid-1980s before ITV struck gold