![]() ![]() His view is that they never met, so there’s no reason. “Well people keep saying it, but you want to put that question to David Suchet – he goes up like a rocket. I mean, it’s seen in every country in the world.” Would it be wrong for Miss Marple and Poirot to share the screen at some point? So this was the first one – and I think I’m going to get a bit better as I go on! It’s a big thing. But at that time I was completely parachuted into it. They sent the script out to me and I had to learn a fair bit of it on the flight to Kuala Lumpur and Heathrow. I was actually on set 10 days after I came back from New Zealand, having learned I‘d got the part a week before. I think she’s considered the definitive Marple, and I have to say I think she probably was.” So when you got the part did you start reading the books furiously? I’m thrilled to follow Geraldine, who’s a very fine actress, but I think we all bow the knee to Joan Hickson. They had things for years!” Who’s your favourite ever Marple actress? People then weren’t like we are now you know, going out to Top Shop, getting something and then chucking it away. “Yes, well I’m getting a new tweed suit made because I wanted her to look as though she hasn’t changed much from when she was at school, with the school blazer and the shirt and the sensible shoes. That’s how I see her.” Will your Miss Marple still be in tweed? And she finds that she’s well ahead of everybody else – and I think that’s a bit of a turn-on. I think the only excitement she gets is when she gets on these cases. I do think she’s quite a reserved person – a little shy and very much a product of her own generation, having lived through two World Wars. “The commitment to these productions from all those involved is great to see, and I’ve no doubt will result in compelling new adaptations, to be enjoyed by fans old and new.“I love a bit of gossip and chat, but I’ve always been an actress who plays what’s on the page. He hinted that more projects would soon follow, adding: “We are having lots of exciting discussions about what next.” Both Marple and Poirot could be revisited further down the line.Ĭhristie’s grandson Mathew Prichard said: “It is fantastic that, in her all-important 125th anniversary year, my grandmother is to be welcomed with such enthusiasm to the BBC: a wonderful new home for her much-loved characters and their stories, and one which she would be delighted with. ![]() Former ITV drama chief Laura Mackie described the Marple brand as “one of the strongest in British television”.īut last night it was the BBC’s turn to triumph as they announced the new commissions to tie in with Christie’s 125th celebration year.īBC drama boss Ben Stephenson said: “I am delighted that the great British institution that is the BBC is going to have a long term relationship with the works of Agatha Christie - both the BBC and Christie are as brilliantly British as it is possible to get.” McKenzie took over from retiring actress Geraldine McEwan, who played Marple on ITV from 2002, when jubilant ITV beat the BBC to a deal for Christie’s work following a “titanic struggle”. It is as sharp as a scalpel, as gripping as a steadily tightening noose, its darkness interspersed with the blackest of black wit.” ![]() Phelps said: “And Then There Were None is Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, a brilliant, unsettling, forensically precise psychological thriller about guilt and paranoia, crime and punishment. Writer Sarah Phelps will adapt the book, in which 10 strangers are marooned on an island and one by one they get killed off. Under the new deal, BBC1 will kick off with a three-hour version of And Then There Were None for Christmas 2015 – the world’s most popular novel of all time with sales of more than 100 million copies. “I was first drawn to the delicious notion of a married couple solving crimes together, and the more I read of the Tommy and Tuppence novels and short stories I realised they are among Christie’s very best work.” He said: “In bringing these thrilling stories to the screen, it is our ambition for Tommy and Tuppence to finally take their rightful place alongside Poirot and Marple as iconic Agatha Christie characters. Written by and starring David Walliams, called Partners in Crime, Walliams takes the role of Tommy. The BBC will start its Christie reign with David Walliams starring in a series based on the author’s 1950s crimefighters Tommy and Tuppence. Julia McKenzie was the last to play the spinster sleuth as ITV held the rights for over a decade. ITV’S Miss Marple has solved her last case after the BBC clinched an exclusive deal to show Agatha Christie whodunnits. ![]()
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