"be joining the cast of BBC drama ""Death In Paradise"" as the island's new lead detective, DI Humphrey Goodman. His character was introduced in the first episode of the third series which aired on 14 January 2014, with his first case being to solve the murder of his predecessor, DI Richard Poole (played by Ben Miller). In January 2017 it was leaked that Marshall would be leaving the series citing the pressures it placed upon his family and that he would be replaced by Ardal O'Hanlon who plays DI Jack Mooney. Marshall starred as Tom Sanger in the 2015 independent"
"Richard Poole (Ben Miller) is assigned to investigate the murder of a British police officer on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie. After he successfully finds the murderer, he is reluctantly required by his supervisors to replace the victim and stay on as the detective inspector (DI) of the island, solving new cases as they appear, and being the object of many fish-out-of-water jokes. At the start of Series 3, Poole is killed and uncoordinated London detective Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) arrives to investigate the death of his strait-laced predecessor. He then stays in the job as chief investigator"
"off Inspector Poole in the first episode and he was replaced by another British Detective Inspector, Humphrey Goodman (played by Kris Marshall). The fourth episode of the 4th series ""Until Death Do You Part"", was Martins' last; her character was written out as moving to Paris. Of her departure from the show, she is quoted as saying: ""I’ve loved everything about the show. But the only way to grow in life is to take risks, even if it means losing something you love, or leaving a place that’s comfortable"". Sara Martins Sara Martins (born 19 August 1977) is a Portuguese"
"solve a high profile murder case, backed up by Detective Sgt. Riley (Duncan Preston). That play was repeated, followed by three new plays in July 2005. Renamed Trueman and Riley for a relaunch on BBC7 (now BBC Radio 4 Extra) in March 2007, and relocated from Hull to Leeds, the new series saw the pair attempt to solve slightly more everyday crimes, and frequently disagreeing about the best way to proceed. The two men both complement and irritate each other, but each recognizes that he depends on the other. The most recent series was broadcast in 2012 on BBC Radio"
"Good Cop Good Cop is a British police procedural television series, written and created by Stephen Butchard, that first broadcast on BBC One on 30 August 2012. The plot centres on an ordinary police constable, John Paul Rocksavage (Warren Brown), whose life changes forever when his best friend and colleague, Andy Stockwell (Tom Hopper), is attacked and killed in a savage ambush. A single series of four episodes broadcast weekly at 9:00pm on Thursdays from 30 August 2012. Following the shooting of two police officers in Tameside, Greater Manchester, on 18 September 2012, the BBC postponed the final episode, originally"
"a fairly standard police drama, with Bulman positioned as its eccentric lead. The series' premise centred around a group of police officers, including Bulman and Willis, known as 'Unit 23', who are brought together from different parts of the country to Manchester to infiltrate areas and investigate crimes that familiar local detectives could not. Five series were broadcast, with the final episode airing on 20 October 1982. Following the series, a further spin-off, simply entitled ""Bulman"", ran for two series on ITV. The series follows Bulman, again played by Don Henderson, as he continues to dabble in private detective work"
"Graham), Rocksavage crosses the line from law enforcer to law breaker, and soon realises there is no way back. Good Cop Good Cop is a British police procedural television series, written and created by Stephen Butchard, that first broadcast on BBC One on 30 August 2012. The plot centres on an ordinary police constable, John Paul Rocksavage (Warren Brown), whose life changes forever when his best friend and colleague, Andy Stockwell (Tom Hopper), is attacked and killed in a savage ambush. A single series of four episodes broadcast weekly at 9:00pm on Thursdays from 30 August 2012. Following the shooting"
"Ben Miller Bennet Evan Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor and director. He is best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller, with Alexander Armstrong. Miller and Armstrong wrote and starred in the Channel 4 sketch show ""Armstrong and Miller"", as well as the BBC sketch show ""The Armstrong & Miller Show"". Miller is also known for playing the lead role of DI Richard Poole in the first two series of the BBC Crime Drama ""Death in Paradise"". Miller was born in London, England and grew up in Nantwich, Cheshire. His paternal"
"cast of cavemen and cavewomen, and ""Football Crazy"" (also for ITV) which was a children's sitcom about the football team Wormwood Rovers. In 1975, Esmonde and Larbey created their best-known situation comedy: ""The Good Life"", starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith. Set in Surbiton, London, it concerns itself with the attempts of Tom and Barbara Good (Briers and Kendal) to be self-sufficient after they decide to leave the rat race. Behind the middle-of-the-road and genteel middle-class surroundings lies a sharp social commentary and well-crafted characters. It ran on the BBC until 1978, although it is still"
"ratings of over two million viewers, regularly appearing in the top-ten weekly shows for the channel. Upon the end of the series in 1999, BBC Two immediately began to screen repeats, and the series was also rescreened on ITV3 in 2006, and again on BBC Two from October 18, 2010. A rerun on digital channel True Entertainment began on October 10, 2014 with the pilot, with regular-series episodes following on weekdays from October 13. The premise of the series centres on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) constable named Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) who travels to Chicago to solve the"
"the Constabulary were still in the top 100 at 65th (Leicestershire was the top police employer). The crime fiction writer Graham Hurley draws on his knowledge of Hampshire Constabulary, and in particular Portsmouth CID, for his series of police procedural novels. Set in Portsmouth and revolving around the fictional Detective Inspector Joe Faraday they portray a gritty picture of the city and its crime. Ruth Rendell's series of crime novels are set in the fictional town of Kingsmarkham. In the books the town is described as being in Sussex, however when the books were televised, Romsey was chosen as the"
"novel in autumn 2016, but the pilot was cancelled. In 2017, Goode began production on a television adaptation of Deborah Harkness's bestselling All Souls trilogy for Sky One in the United Kingdom. The show, titled ""A Discovery of Witches"", takes its title from the series' first book. He plays the lead role of Professor Matthew Clairmont, an Oxford molecular biologist and vampire. The show was first broadcast in the UK on September 14, 2018, and has been renewed for two more series based on the strength of its first airing in the United Kingdom where it was consistently the network's"
"final two series. The Australian (Region 4) releases of series 1 to 4 use NTSC format despite PAL being the format used in that region, and being the original production format of the series. Some music has been replaced in versions available outside the UK. Hustle (TV series) Hustle is a British television crime drama series starring Adrian Lester, Robert Glenister and Robert Vaughn. Created by Tony Jordan, it was produced by Kudos Film and Television, and broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. The show premiered on 24 February 2004, and ran for eight series, with its final"
"BBC included the soap opera ""EastEnders""; medical dramas ""Doctors"" (which he co-created), ""Casualty"", and the latter's spin-off series ""Holby City"", which he created; police dramas ""Dalziel and Pascoe"", ""Waking the Dead"", and ""Merseybeat""; anthology shows ""The Afternoon Play"" and ""Murder in Mind""; legal drama ""Judge John Deed""; rural-set ""Down to Earth""; comedy-drama ""Being April""; and science-fiction series ""Doctor Who"". At the end of 2004, Young became head of drama at independent production company 19Television Limited, part of Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment. Along with former BBC Head of Development Serena Cullen, who is now 19 Entertainment's head of development for film"
"from the BBC archive, were as follows: Three stories were also adapted as part of the Thames TV series ""The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes"" in 1971-3. These were: Both series are available on DVD — in the UK from Network Video and in the United States from Acornmedia. Starting in 2011 the BBC aired radio adaptations of some of the Thorndyke short stories, ""Thorndyke: Forensic Investigator"" on BBC Radio 4 Extra. November 2011 read by Jim Norton March 2013 read by William Gaminara R. Austin Freeman Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862 – 28 September 1943) was a British writer"
"and showrun the series. A six-part radio play of ""Neverwhere"" was broadcast in March 2013, adapted by Dirk Maggs for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra. Featured stars include James McAvoy as Richard, Natalie Dormer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Bernard Cribbens and Johnny Vegas. In September 2014, Gaiman and Terry Pratchett joined forces with BBC Radio 4 to make the first ever dramatisation of their co-penned novel ""Good Omens"", which was broadcast in December in five half-hour episodes and culminated in an hour-long final apocalyptic showdown. Gaiman frequently performs public readings from his stories and poetry, and has toured"
"the BBC ""Detective"" (1964–1969) series which was an anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories. In 1989 and 1990, the first eight of the novels (excluding ""The Crime at Black Dudley"") were adapted over two seasons, with each story shown in two hour-long episodes. Peter Davison played Campion, Brian Glover was Lugg and Andrew Burt was Oates. Albert Campion Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in ""The Crime at Black Dudley"" (1929), an adventure story involving a ring of criminals, and"
"The most notable of these include ""This Life"" (BBC Two, 1996–1997), about a group of young law students in London; vampire thriller ""Ultraviolet"" (Channel 4, 1998) and police drama ""The Cops"" (BBC Two, 1998–1999), which was so controversial in its depiction of the police force that official police advice was withdrawn for the second series. More recently, the company has made the series ""No Angels"" for Channel 4 (2004–2006), a drama based around the lives of young nurses, and also ""Goldplated"" and for Channel Five it has produced the ""Perfect Day"" trilogy and ""Tripping Over"", a co production with Network"
"1984 by HarperCollins . Law & Order (UK TV series) Law & Order (often referred to as Law and Order) is a British television crime drama series, comprising four connected plays written by G. F. Newman and directed by Les Blair, that first transmitted on 6 April 1978 on BBC Two. Each of the four stories within the series were told from a different perspective, including that of the Detective, the Villain, the Brief and the Prisoner. The series was highly controversial upon its release due to its depiction of a corrupt British law enforcement and legal system. In 2009,"
"Holding On (TV series) Holding On is an eight-part British television drama series, created by screenwriter Tony Marchant, that first broadcast on BBC2 on 8 September 1997. The series follows the life of a seemingly unconnected group of people living in London, whose lives are strangely affected by the murder of a young woman in the city. While some of the group are able to take a newfound hope from the remains of the tragic event, others including food critic Gary Rickey (Phil Daniels) simply watch on as despair begins to unravel in the light of the aftermath. Proving popular"
"on the ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"" obscenity trial of 1960, ""The Chatterley Affair"". This one-off drama for digital television channel BBC Four features ""Doctor Who"" star David Tennant as Richard Hoggart. It was one of the first of what would become an extremely successful run for single dramas on British television, often bringing big screen stars to individual and authored projects. ""The Chatterley Affair"" also won Best Single Drama in the same BAFTA awards as the Doctor Who success. Hawes was also announced in late 2005 as the producer and lead director of the forthcoming ""Doctor Who"" spin-off series ""Torchwood"" —"
"and her partner, Walti Merian (Dominik Tiefenthaler), begin an investigation. A suspect for the murders is identified, but when he evades capture and flees back to Germany, Niles arranges for Bobby to travel to Düsseldorf to assist with the German end of the investigation. Paranoid (TV series) Paranoid is a British crime drama which began broadcasting on ITV, on 22 September 2016, and streaming internationally on Netflix, in 2016. The eight-part series focuses on a group of detectives working for the fictional Woodmere police, in the UK, who are attempting to solve the murder of a physician who is stabbed"
"the UK. He reprised the role in the spin-off series ""Lewis"", in which Lewis returns to Oxford as a full Inspector. With his new partner, the Cambridge-educated Detective Sergeant James Hathaway (Laurence Fox), Inspector Lewis solves murder mysteries while trying to rebuild his life after his wife's sudden death in a hit-and-run accident and to gain recognition from his sceptical new boss. Richard Marson's book celebrating fifty years of ""Blue Peter"" comments that Whately auditioned as a presenter for the show in 1980 but lost out to Peter Duncan. In 2010 Whately played the lead in the television film ""Joe"
"Gosford Park Gosford Park is a 2001 British mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Emily Watson. The story follows a party of wealthy Britons plus an American producer, and their servants, who gather for a shooting weekend at Gosford Park, an English country house. A murder occurs after a dinner party, and the film"
"TV drama ""United"", which was centred on the events of the 1958 Munich air disaster involving Manchester United. In 2010 Dudgeon appeared in an episode of the ITV crime drama ""Midsomer Murders"", called ""The Sword of Guillaume"". He was introduced in the episode as the cousin of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, played by John Nettles, who retired from the role. Dudgeon, also cast as a senior detective, took over as the lead character in ""Midsomer Murders"" after the last episodes featuring John Nettles were screened in 2011. Dudgeon's character name is DCI ""John"" Barnaby, which has been suggested may"
"Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes is a television crime drama series created by David Pirie, and co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, a PBS station. Six episodes were made and were first broadcast on BBC Two, the first two on 4 and 5 January 2000, and the other four from 4 September to 2 October 2001. The series follows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's time as a general practitioner in Southsea, solving mysteries with the help of his mentor, Dr Joseph Bell, who is based in Edinburgh. The series"
"were produced by John Lloyd. In 2000, the fourth series, ""Blackadder Goes Forth"", ranked at 16 in the ""100 Greatest British Television Programmes"", a list created by the British Film Institute. In the 2004 TV poll to find ""Britain's Best Sitcom"", ""Blackadder"" was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by ""Only Fools and Horses"". It was also ranked as the 9th-best TV show of all time by ""Empire"" magazine. Although each series is set in a different era, all follow the misfortunes of Edmund Blackadder (played by Atkinson), who in each is a member of a British"
"The experience, which is built in the West 12 shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush and designed by the escape room creators of London's ""Time Run"", begins in 221B Baker Street and requires teams to solve mysteries to progress along through the 60 minute game. Sherlock (TV series) Sherlock is a British crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. Thirteen episodes have been produced, with four three-part series airing from 2010 to 2017,"
"death in 1999 but throws herself into work and stands for council herself, retaining her seat until 2001. Audrey is similarly devastated when her best friend, Alma Halliwell (Amanda Barrie), dies of cervical cancer in June 2001. Audrey nearly becomes a victim of her serial killer son-in-law, Richard Hillman (Brian Capron), when he discovers that she is inherited quite a lot of money from Alf. In late 2002, viewers saw him subtly make Audrey fear that she is developing senile dementia by deliberately unlocking doors she had locked, hanging out washing that she does not remember, turning on lights and"
"(alongside regulars John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard and Daniel Casey) Michele Dotrice, Peter Jones, Rosalind Ayres, Roger Allam, Tessa Peake-Jones and David Daker. Faithful unto Death Faithful unto Death is a work of detective fiction by Caroline Graham, the fifth in her popular Chief Inspector Barnaby series, which has been adapted into the equally successful ITV drama ""Midsomer Murders"". When local housewife Simone Hollingsworth doesn't show up for bell-ringing practice, nobody even raises an eyebrow, let alone suspect anything sinister. However, after her suspicious neighbours, the elderly Brockleys, notice her husband digging holes in his garden late one night,"
"and Drew Z. Greenberg would be writing a pilot for Syfy. Espenson told io9 that ""The version we're proposing is quite different in tone and content from the original."" She added ""We took the basic premise of a Ghost Detective and his still-living partner and invented our own take on it."" Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the private detectives Jeffrey Randall and Martin Hopkirk. The series was created by Dennis Spooner and produced by Monty Berman, and was first broadcast in 1969"
"Hertfordshire. Following the 11 September 2001 attacks, the subject matter of the series was deemed to be too sensitive, and as a result, was never broadcast on British television. The series was first broadcast in Germany on 12 November 2003 as a single feature-length production, under the title ""Der mysteriöse Passagier"". The series was also later broadcast in France in 2007. Notably, the series has never been made available on DVD. Chief air crash investigator Marcus Hodge (Iain Glen) and his team consisting of Gaynor Crosswell (Sarah Parish) and Phil Epson (Hugh Bonneville) of the Air Accident Investigation Bureau are"
"a struggling playwright. The actor then landed the role of Detective Sergeant Jack Weston in innovative crime procedural ""Suspects"". The drama is shot in a documentary style, using fly-on-the-wall filming techniques. Series 1, comprising five episodes, aired in February–March 2014 on Channel 5 in the UK. The fifth and latest series of the show aired in August 2016, with a new cast line-up and a change in format with Molony taking centre stage in a six part story. All five series of the show have also reached American audiences via streaming service Acorn TV. Molony was cast as Robert Putnam"