David Walliams and Jessica Raine star as Agatha Christie’s married couple Tommy and Tuppence in BBC One’s Partners in Crime. Adapted for the screen by award-winning author, playwright and director Zinnie Harris (Spooks) and Claire Wilson (Twist), the six-part adventure series has espionage and humour at its heart. > Buy Partners in Crime on DVD … >
Somehow, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford’s first amateur detective experience wasn’t enough to deter them from getting involved in a further round of investigative shenanigans. Thus, the further adventures of BBC One’s Partners In Crime began tonight with the opening part of ‘N or M?’ and our plucky heroes somehow find themselves still not having been … >
Everyone loves a good sleuth. But that’s the point, everyone loves a good sleuth. Your Poirots, your Marples. It’s hard to love one who is barely competent. It’s even harder to love two of them. Tommy and Tuppence aren’t sleuths, they’re a nosy married couple being knocked about from mystery to mystery, clue to clue, … >
BBC One’s new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None has started shooting. Based on the best-selling crime novel of all time, the three-part drama has been adapted for TV by Sarah Phelps (The Casual Vacancy, Great Expectations). The all-star ensemble cast includes Aidan Turner (Poldark) as Philip Lombard, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) … >
Much like its heroes Tommy and Tuppence, Partners in Crime gets much right, but also makes niggling errors in its enthusiastic execution of duties. It makes the whole endeavour feel slightly more amateurish than it clearly should be. There’s some dark, engaging stuff in Part 2 of ‘The Secret Adversary’, and at times a tremendous … >
It all starts on a train. A setting that’s unmistakeably Dame Agatha. There’s the smoky whiff of The Orient Express, Le Train Bleu, and the 4:50 from Paddington as we commence the latest in BBC One’s Sunday night syllabus of bestseller adaptations. This year more than ever, Auntie Beeb is determined to borrow everything on … >
Partners in Crime, BBC One’s new Agatha Christie adaptation which begins this weekend, will surprise many. Firstly, it shares more of a style with Doctor Who than Miss Marple and secondly, David Walliams switches up his usual act to become something of a Sunday evening action hero. The six episodes will comprise of two stories, … >
Robert Powell (Holby City, The Detectives) will star as Hercule Poirot in a new production of Agatha Christie’s first ever play, Black Coffee, later this month at Theatre Royal Brighton. Presented by the Agatha Christie Company, Black Coffee will run from Tuesday 27 May to Saturday 31 May at 7.45pm, with matinee performances on Wednesday, … >
Acorn Media have an awesome selection of classic TV shows available on DVD this Christmas and to celebrate we’re got three boxsets (including Foyle’s War: Complete Series 1-7, Inspector George Gently: Complete Series 1-5 and Agatha Christie’s Murder & Mystery Collection) to give away to one of our Twitter followers!
The world’s longest running stage production, The Mousetrap, arrives in Brighton next week for a 6-day run.