BBC AND BRITBOX FIND THEIR HERCULE POIROT FOR THE NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES ON THE FAMOUS DETECTIVE

    BBC FINDS   

THEIR NEW HERCULE POIROT

Well, they lost my interest with that boring casting: BBC has announced that they have cast Edward Bluemel as Agatha Christie’s iconic Belgian

Edward Bluemel is new Hercule Poirot, sadly

 detective in new drama series HERCULE – produced by Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited for the BBC and BritBox North America. The six part series is an intimate study of Hercule the man and an epic portrait of Britain between the wars. The series takes a magnifying glass to three of Christie’s most celebrated stories, while also charting Hercule’s burgeoning friendship with Captain Arthur Hastings, his early encounters with Scotland Yard’s James Japp, and introducing him to one particular nemesis… Filming begins this summer.

SEE HELENA BONHAM CARTER AND MARTIN FREEMAN IN NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE TV SERIES SEVEN DIALS COMING NEXT MONTH TO NETFLIX

   SEVEN DIALS TEASER  

The series is out this January

FOR NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE TV SERIES

Netflix has released a teaser for their new mini TV series SEVEN DIALS based on Agatha Christie's book which will be available for streaming as of January 15th as one of the first new series of 2026! Chris Chibnall created the three part series with Mia McKenna Bruce leading the cast of the clever mystery as Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent, a young, determined sleuth. You can check out the trailer below the post.

 

 THE STORY IS SET IN 

England, 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths, the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent, to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery. A witty, epic, and fast-paced drama from the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, is brought to life in a thrilling new version for Netflix. Helena Bonham Carter stars as Lady Caterham, with Martin Freeman, Corey Mylchreest, Ed Bluemel and Nabhaan Rizwan also in the cast. Check out the teaser below:

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 19TH CENTURY SET ADVENTURE TV SERIES WASHINGTON BLACK WITH TOM ELLIS, RUPERT GRAVES AND STERLING K. BROWN

  WASHINGTON BLACK  

JOURNEY BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAM

New series hits Hulu July 23rd in USA

I am sad to be the one to inform you, but July and August will not exactly be filled with new series especially not the period set ones, so WASHINGTON BLACK is one of the rare ones that will premiere next month. The eight episodes will hit Disney + July 23rd and Hulu as well following an 11 year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation who is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure in this sweeping new advenure series. Tom Ellis, Rupert Graves and Sterling K. Brown lead the cast which also includes Ernest Kingsley Jr., Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel, Sharon Duncan Brewster and Eddie Karanja.

 

BASED ON THE BESTSELLING NOVEL

of the same name, “Washington Black” follows the 19th-century odyssey of George Washington “Wash” Black, an eleven-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific mind sets him on a path of unexpected destiny. When a harrowing incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges and reshapes his understanding of family, freedom and love. As he navigates uncharted lands and impossible odds, Wash finds the courage to imagine a future beyond the confines of the society he was born into. Check out the trailer below: