David Walliams (Little Britain) and Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife) lead the cast of BBC One’s new six-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime novels as husband and wife detective duo, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. > Buy Partners in Crime on DVD on Amazon. To celebrate the show’s release on DVD on Monday 31 … >
The tensions mount in the fifth instalment of Partners in Crime, as our plucky mister and missus find themselves descending further into a dangerous investigation indeed. Oh dear. If Thomas and Tuppence Beresford really were Britain’s last hope, I despair for us all. The thing is, there’s no reason a bumbling amateur sleuth story is … >
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, … >
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, … >
Oh, blessums, The Boy In The Dress really is an utterly sweet tale. Based on the book of the same name (and whose author, David Walliams, makes a brief appearance as a drama teacher turned football referee), BBC One’s one-off Boxing Day film tells the story of twelve-year-old Dennis (played with masses of understated, genuine … >
BBC One has released a trailer for The Boy in the Dress, based on David Walliams’ first children’s book Following the success of Gangsta Granny and Mr Stink, the one-hour special stars Jennifer Saunders, Meera Syal, James Buckley, Tim McInnerny, Felicity Montagu, David Walliams and Kate Moss as herself. The Boy in the Dress airs … >