Shetland-In January, BBC One is scheduled to air Shetland, a two-parter starring Douglas Henshall and based on Ann Cleeves’s Jimmy Perez novels-the ones that earned her the CWA Golden Dagger. The show might make it over here, and if it does I’d give it a look.ĥ.
Whicher-This true Victorian crime novel by Kate Summerscale was a best seller and series 1 of Suspicions, starring Paddy Considine as “Inspector Jonathan ‘Jack’ Whicher, the real-life pioneering detective who worked in the newly established Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police during the 19 th Century,” was a hit in the U.K. Who knows? No word yet on whether it will be continued or whether it will reach our shores.Ĥ. It received a lukewarm reception, but something tells me it might have potential if it were spun like the fantastic Call the Midwife with crime-solving. The Bletchley Circle-There are three 60-minute episodes of this drama, starring Anna Maxwell Martin ( Bleak House) and Rachel Stirling (you’ve seen her in Inspector Lewis, Miss Marple and Poirot!), about female code-breakers from Bletchley Park adjusting to post-World War II life in the 1950s. Peter Robinson’s 20 th Inspector Banks novel, Watching the Dark, comes out in the U.S. Banks is a thoughtful detective, relocated from London to Yorkshire and surrounded by the usual array of colleagues and criminals.
So if you like the first round, you’ll be happy to know there are more where they came from. Around the same time, ITV announced that it would be making a third series of DCI Banks starring Stephen Tompkinson, bringing the episode total up to 14 (7 novels dramatized in two-part eps). audience I don’t know why it took so long to arrive, but author Peter Robinson announced on his website recently that the hit ITV series based on his Inspector Alan Banks novels would be coming to public television in 2013. DCI Banks-This seemed like such a natural for the U.S. I am really looking forward to this one!Ģ. The show should begin airing on public television in April 2013, although your local public television station may choose to air it later.
(How many times have we heard that before?) Nevertheless, American TV viewers will have the chance to see Dirk for themselves. And even though critics and viewers loved it, BBC cancelled Dirk Gently in May 2012.
There are just three episodes from 2012, plus the pilot from 2010. Dirk Gently-Stephen Mangan (above) stars in this series inspired by Dirk Gently’ s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. It would be possible for me to find a way to watch said programs on my computer or via some other technological means, but I want to sit on my couch and watch them on my TV. I haven’t watched any of them so my selections are based on the subject, the source material, the creators, and the cast. Here then is a brief rundown of a few programs that struck my fancy. TV programming folks were so inclined to grab ’em.
(Where? When? Tell me!) Others are up for grabs if any wise U.S. Some of them, I’ve heard, are heading our way. during the past year or that are scheduled to debut in 2013. I’ve been reading with undisguised envy about various TV series that aired in the U.K.