What makes a great Agatha Christie adaptation
What could be more of an Easter treat than a new Agatha Christie? This week, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, an adaptation of Christie’s 1934 novel, launched…
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? review: Hugh Laurie makes Agatha Christie look easy
A lesser-spotted Agatha Christie is always welcome. After a glut of Poirot adaptations and in the lull before Miss Marple returns to television, BritBox is serving up…
A portrait of Gerry Anderson as a bad husband and a distant father – but what of his creative genius?
A message at the start of Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted (BritBox) explains that new footage of the Thunderbirds and Stingray creator has been generated “with artificial…
A portrait of Gerry Anderson as a bad husband and a distant father – but what of his creative genius?
A message at the start of Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted (BritBox) explains that new footage of the Thunderbirds and Stingray creator has been generated “with artificial…
Sanditon, series 2, review: Bridgerton’s chaste cousin gets second chance to win our hand
Bridgerton launched on Christmas Day, 2020. Six months later, Sanditon was reprieved by BritBox and PBS. The two events may not be unconnected. As Alison Heywood (Rosie Graham) said in…
Chic, sun-dappled, set in France – yet Murder in Provence is the most English drama on TV
Television producers seem to have a favoured idea of “middle-class” life. It’s all shiny kitchen islands and shinier 4x4s and giant flat-screen TVs, with everyone speaking in…
Magpie Murders, Britbox, review: a whodunit pastiche with a delicious conceit
“There is nowhere more dangerous than an English village,” says Alan Conway (Conleth Hill) in the delectable Magpie Murders. And he should know, having become enormously wealthy…