NEW MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE SHOWS TO WATCH THIS AUTUMN: MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG, LYNLEY, MAIGRET, DEATH BY LIGHTNING, THE RUMOUR

 MYSTERY DETECTIVE SHOWS 

MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG

A review of new mystery and detective series coming to the small screens this Autumn, starting with MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG in which Matthew Lewis plays Canon Daniel Clement, a rector, who finds himself entangled in a murder investigation after a cousin of the church's patron is discovered with a fatal stab wound inflicted by secateurs, leading him to unravel the mystery. The six episode series will hit Acorn TV September 29th after it premieres in UK on Channel 5. See trailer here. 

 

  LYNLEY WITH LEO SUTER

Already launched earlier this week over on BritBox is a new four episode remake of LYNLEY detective series in which our lovely Leo Suter plays DI Thomas Lynley who together with DS Barbara Havers forms an unlikely police detective duo. Their contrasting backgrounds create tension, but they unite to solve crimes, navigating class and gender issues. Tom Forbes and Daniel Mays also star in the series out from September 4th and you can see the trailer here.

 

NEW MAIGRET FROM PBS MASTERPIECE

Launching a bit later on, October 5th over at PBS Masterpiece is MAIGRET in which gorgeous Benjamin Wainwright plays Chief Inspector Maigret a rising star in the Paris Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris. See trailer here.

 

 DEATH BY LIGHTNING OVER AT NETFLIX

Netflix is bringing us Matthew MacFadyen in their period set investigation series DEATH BY LIGHTNING which arrives November 6th also starring Michael Shannon, Betty Gilpin and Nick Offerman. This period set four episode drama dramatizes the stranger-than-fiction true story of 20th U.S. President James Garfield and admirer Charles Guiteau, who assassinated him. I will post the trailer when it is released.

 

 

THE RUMOUR FROM CHANNEL 5

British Channel 5 is ready to launch small town mystery thriller THE RUMOUR with Rachel Shenton from September 10th! She plays a mother who moves to a small town and gets entangled with a group of mothers. She exploits a rumor of a child predator living nearby, fueling gossip and heightening tensions while trying to safeguard her son amidst rising mistrust. See trailer here.

SEE FIRST TRAILER WITH BENJAMIN WAINWRIGHT AS THE NEW MAIGRET IN THE PBS REBOOT OF FAMOUS PARIS DETECTIVE SERIES

    NEW MAIGRET SERIES   

FIRST TRAILER WITH BENJAMIN WAINWRIGHT

Maigret starts this October on PBS

PBS Masterpiece has released first trailer with Benjamin Wainwright in MAIGRET series as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret which will premiere October 5th! Paris set series takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and mansions to local bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally criminal. Maigret is an unconventional young detective with something to prove the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants. Faithfully and lovingly married to Madame Maigret (StefanieMartini), Maigret heads the elite police unit known as La Crim, responsible for investigating all serious crime in and around Paris. Blake Harrison, Reda Elazouar, Kerrie Hayes, Shaniqua Okwok and Rob Kazinsky make up the “Les Maigrets,” Maigret’s loyal team of detectives, with Nathalie Armin as Prosecutor Mathilde Kernavel.

 

SEE FIRST LOOK AT BENJAMIN WAINWRIGHT AS THE NEW MAIGRET IN THE PBS REBOOT OF THE FAMOUS PARIS DETECTIVE SERIES

    NEW MAIGRET SERIES   

FIRST LOOK AT BENJAMIN WAINWRIGHT

PBS Masterpiece has released first image of Benjamin Wainwright in MAIGRET series as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret! Paris set series takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and mansions to local bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally criminal. Maigret is an unconventional young detective with something to prove the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants. Faithfully and lovingly married to Madame Maigret (Stefanie Martini), Maigret heads the elite police unit known as La Crim, responsible for investigating all serious crime in and around Paris. Blake Harrison, Reda Elazouar, Kerrie Hayes, Shaniqua Okwok and Rob Kazinsky make up the “Les Maigrets,” Maigret’s loyal team of detectives, with Nathalie Armin as Prosecutor Mathilde Kernavel.

PBS MASTERPIECE CASTS BENJAMIN WAINWRIGHT, ROBERT KAZINSKY, STEFANIE MARTINI, BLAKE HARRISON IN NEW MAIGRET TV SERIES

    NEW MAIGRET SERIES   

SET AT PBS WITH BENJAMIN WAINWRIGHT

PBS Masterpiece has announced work on new version of MAIGRET based on the books by Georges Simenon with Belgravia's hunk Benjamin Wainwright in the lead role of Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, in the Paris set series that takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and mansions to local bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally criminal. Maigret is an unconventional young detective with

Stefanie Martini, Benjamin Wainwright, Rob Kazinski will lead the series

something to prove the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants. Faithfully and lovingly married to Madame Maigret (Stefanie Martini), Maigret heads the elite police unit known as La Crim, responsible for investigating all serious crime in and around Paris. Blake Harrison, Reda Elazouar, Kerrie Hayes, Shaniqua Okwok and Rob Kazinsky make up the “Les Maigrets,” Maigret’s loyal team of detectives, with Nathalie Armin as Prosecutor Mathilde Kernavel.