‘The ABC Murders’: John Malkovich to Don the Mustache of Hercule Poirot in New Agatha Christie Adaptation

Kenneth Branagh played detective Hercule Poirot in last year’s Murder on the Orient Express and will soon be reprising the role in a sequel, but Branagh isn’t the only actor set to wear the character’s ludicrously large mustache. A new report says that John Malkovich will play the part in a new television adaptation of […]

Ordeal By Innocence: How is the show’s ending different from Agatha Christie's novel?

Agatha Christie superfans were out for blood this evening. Ordeal By Innocence’s fans quickly realised as the show was coming to its climactic finish that the killer had been changed. It has been a topic of hot debate about who killed Rachel (played by Anna Chancellor) in the BBC’s short series. This evening it was […]

Ordeal by Innocence house owner describes BIZARRE experiences in new Agatha Christie drama

The drama series features Nighy, Anna Chancellor, Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson, Alice Eve from Star Trek and Downton Abbey’s Matthew Goode. But glorious Ardgowan House on the west coast of Scotland, once a favourite bolthole of Princess Margaret, also has a starring role. Viewers have fallen in love with its fine exterior, rolling acres and interiors […]

Ordeal by Innocence: Bill Nighy teases new Agatha Christie drama – 'It's pretty dark!’

Bill Nighy plays Leo Argyll, an amateur Egyptologist, in the explosive new three-part BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by Innocence. The tantalising drama series is centred around the mysterious murder of Rachel Argyll (played Anna Chancellor), a rich philanthropist and mother to five adopted children. Her son Jack (Anthony Boyle) is arrested for the […]

Agatha Christie's grandson reveals the the woman behind the Orient Express

PR James Pritchard reveals the woman behind the legendary book, now a blockbuster The latest adaptation of Murder On The Orient Express, with Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot, has taken more than $ 350 million dollars at the box office. And a sequel of Death On The Nile is already in the pipeline. So what […]

Simon Kernick: My six best books – Agatha Christie inspired me from an early age

WALKING THE WOODS AND THE WATER by Nick Hunt Brealey, £9.99 A travel book by a guy who walked from Rotterdam to Istanbul, along the route taken in 1933 by the great explorer Patrick Leigh Fermor. He has an easy style of writing and it inspired me to walk more and to visit countries such […]

BBC will NOT air Agatha Christie drama amid Ed Westwick sexual assault allegations

The broadcaster was set to air Agatha Christie’s Ordeal By Innocence at Christmas, however it will no longer be scheduled.  A statement from the BBC read: “These are serious allegations, which Ed Westwick has strenuously denied.  “The BBC is not making any judgement but until these matters are resolved we will not include Ordeal By […]

Amazon Is Making a Series of Agatha Christie’s ‘Ordeal By Innocence’ — with More Christie Projects to Come

Beyond Whole Foods, IMDB, Box Office Mojo, Goodreads, and your mind, Amazon also now owns a whole lot of fictional murdered British people: the company has purchased the rights to a bulk of material by late mystery master Agatha Christie. As of now, the only project being publicized is Ordeal By Innocence, an adaptation of the novel (which […]