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Old 16-08-2016, 14:35
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News and pic here of David Suchet joining Doctor Who S10:

http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/ar...-who-series-10
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Old 16-08-2016, 14:40
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I might watch that episode!
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Old 16-08-2016, 14:55
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That's brilliant. Suchet is such a good actor. Looking forward to it.


I might watch that episode!
Am I right in thinking you're a Christie fan, chuff? Suchet was ideal in the part of Poirot, imo. I've seen him in other stuff as well, and always admired him.
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Old 16-08-2016, 16:45
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That's brilliant. Suchet is such a good actor. Looking forward to it.




Am I right in thinking you're a Christie fan, chuff? Suchet was ideal in the part of Poirot, imo. I've seen him in other stuff as well, and always admired him.
I'm a huge Christie fan, Granny. Even though they changed some of the books beyond recognition for TV, Mr Suchet was bang-on throughout. I've seen him on stage a couple of times, and he's always amazing. I can't think of much else that would get me watching DW in the next year-or-so.
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Old 16-08-2016, 18:44
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So cool!
LOVE his Hercule pirot.
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Old 17-08-2016, 10:51
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Mysterious character called the Landlord... sounds immense.. hope he is rogue timelord in the mould of the meddling monk..
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Old 17-08-2016, 19:29
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I have a picture of suchet as poirot mocked up to look like me back when I had hair stuck on my phone book at work(someone else did it)
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Old 25-08-2016, 05:51
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Currently in Cardiff working on Doctor Who until the 27th I could say the hotel but might get in trouble from work.
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Old 25-08-2016, 22:37
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More pics
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...-Landlord.html

He looks like he's having a ball of a time!
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Old 26-08-2016, 00:24
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Given that the BBC have recently secured the rights to produce Poirot (stealing them from ITV), is it possible they would continue to use David Suchet in the lead?

Perhaps this is a way of presenting him as a "BBC man" from now on?

Maybe Poirot will replace Sherlock on BBC1 in a year or two?
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Old 26-08-2016, 08:48
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Given that the BBC have recently secured the rights to produce Poirot (stealing them from ITV), is it possible they would continue to use David Suchet in the lead?

Perhaps this is a way of presenting him as a "BBC man" from now on?

Maybe Poirot will replace Sherlock on BBC1 in a year or two?
That's interesting. I'd quite like to see Poirot filmed after the manner of Sherlock (though I think purists like chuffnobbler would probably hate it).

I'd be amazed if Suchet wanted to reprise the role, though.
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Old 26-08-2016, 10:41
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I'm not really an Agatha Christie purist, but I'm as much of a lifelong fan of AC as I am of DW. It peeves me that some of the recent ITV adaptations have changed the murderer of several stories, and have sexed things up unnecessarily. The ITV adaptation of The Body in the Library was clogged full of lesbians and had a different murderer and different motives from the book. Quite unpleasant and unseemly. And don't get me started on Murder Is Easy ... ugh. Or Appointment with Death.

The new BBC deal will be for Poirot/Marple -free stories. Ordeal by Innocence is a good one, and then they're doing Death Comes As The End. A concubine is murdered in Ancient Egypt! Can't wait to see that one!
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Old 26-08-2016, 18:27
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I'm not really an Agatha Christie purist, but I'm as much of a lifelong fan of AC as I am of DW. It peeves me that some of the recent ITV adaptations have changed the murderer of several stories, and have sexed things up unnecessarily. The ITV adaptation of The Body in the Library was clogged full of lesbians and had a different murderer and different motives from the book. Quite unpleasant and unseemly. And don't get me started on Murder Is Easy ... ugh. Or Appointment with Death.

The new BBC deal will be for Poirot/Marple -free stories. Ordeal by Innocence is a good one, and then they're doing Death Comes As The End. A concubine is murdered in Ancient Egypt! Can't wait to see that one!
I read that ages ago - it's an excellent story.

I couldn't agree more about the way they've messed about with the stories so that murderers and motives are different. I remember (I wish I didn't) the truly terrible adaptation of The Secret of Chimneys.

Updating Poirot and setting it in the 21st century, with nods to the original, like Sherlock, could be fun, though, if done well.

But if they're not doing Poirot stories, then that won't happen. I personally love the adventure stories, like The Man in the Brown Suit, and They Came to Baghdad. So witty and well-written.
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Old 26-08-2016, 19:20
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I'm not really an Agatha Christie purist, but I'm as much of a lifelong fan of AC as I am of DW. It peeves me that some of the recent ITV adaptations have changed the murderer of several stories, and have sexed things up unnecessarily. The ITV adaptation of The Body in the Library was clogged full of lesbians and had a different murderer and different motives from the book. Quite unpleasant and unseemly. And don't get me started on Murder Is Easy ... ugh. Or Appointment with Death.

The new BBC deal will be for Poirot/Marple -free stories. Ordeal by Innocence is a good one, and then they're doing Death Comes As The End. A concubine is murdered in Ancient Egypt! Can't wait to see that one!
They seem to do this a lot more frequently with period dramas and classic literature adaptions lately. I still have yet to watch the recent BBC adaption of War and Peace, and though I mostly hear good things about it (it is a brilliant story, after all) there was a bit of controversy over it being sexed up.
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