Brand New Agatha Christie Series
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a554508/david-walliams-to-star-in-new-agatha-christie-series-on-the-bbc.html
Brand new version of Partners in Crime!
Lots of other documentaries planned too. It's great BBC are doing all these shows, but I am a little disappointed ITV are doing nothing. After all the Agatha Christie work they have done.. I still want them to do more Marple.
Brand new version of Partners in Crime!
Lots of other documentaries planned too. It's great BBC are doing all these shows, but I am a little disappointed ITV are doing nothing. After all the Agatha Christie work they have done.. I still want them to do more Marple.
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I think success will depend on who is cast as Tuppence - I couldn't see it mentioned in that article ?
Also looking forward to And Then There Were None - although I don't think that the atmosphere of the one with Dennis Price & Wilfred Hyde White can be beaten. It being in black & white did add to the atmosphere.
I remember reading it as a teenager and picturing Tommy and Tuppence as being really old from the descriptions of them feeling written off, their kids being grown up etc. When I read it again years later I was shocked to discover they were only in their forties.
I agree, the casting of Tuppence will be important. Francesca Annis was great in the role. Greta Scaachi was all wrong in the recent adaptation of By The Pricking of my Thumbs. I think Keeley Hawes would be good. I know she's only in her late thirties but with a war time hair do and make up I'm sure she could look a bit older.
I hope the new version follows the original ending in the book as opposed to the reworked one that Agatha Christie wrote for the stage in 1943
I don't think I've ever seen the Ollie Reed version but in all of the three film versions I've seen the 1943 ending is followed... in other words
There are other Golden Age crime writers whose works have never adapted for television that the BBC could commission - what about Josephine Tey or Patricia Wentworth? Or if they want cosy crime, something more contemporary like M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin or anything by Simon Brett?
At least four of Joephine Tey's books have been on the radio, many years ago. But I'd love to see TV versions of The Franchise Affair (so much easier to see the major clue without merely having a description), Brat Farrar, The Singing Sands and A Shilling for Candles.
Similarly, Simon Brett's Charles Paris stories would make ideal TV - if you find the crime too easy to solve (and most did have an identical pattern) then just concentrate on the story - a behind the scenes look at the theatre or TV.
Tuppence Middleton would be great. She's gorgeous.
Yes - that's the same as the Oliver Reed version.
I do hope they don't cast Tuppence to be a glamorous young actress! Can't really see Walliams as Tommy either but I suppose since he wrote it..... pity though.:(
YES!!!! To all of your post! Why on earth haven't they done Josephine Tey's thrillers???
Such brilliant stories - even Daughter of Time which is an unconventional 'thriller' seeing as how Richard III was such a huge story last year.
The Daisy Dalrymple stories by Carola Scott would make good adaptations for TV, too. Although written now, they have the right feel.
I've got all the Agatha Raisin stories from the radio with Penny Keith. Love them!
They didn't do that many, compared to how many stories there are.
I've listened to a couple of them and loved them. Penelope Keith plays Agatha superbly and it's a shame they've not done any more. I'm quite surprised, judging by their global popularity, that they've not been adapted for TV yet!
I think the Carola Dunn books with Daisy Darlymple would make for great TV as well. There is another excellent wartime crime series by Jacqueline Winspear about Maisie Dobbs, that would be good as well.
Me too would love to see Penelope Keith in a TV adaptation of Agatha Raisin.;-)
I might be mis-remembering but I am sure some of Josephine Teys stories have been dramatised. Might have been back in the 70's. The Franchise Affair and Brat Farrar were done as serials I think.
Franchise Affair certainly was. It is good too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304036/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Just read in the Radio Times that the T&T adaptations are going to be set in the 1950s. How on earth could you move N orM to the 1950s? The second world war is an essentai element of that story.