Pinboard: bookmarks for tabardroad tagged 'detective-genre'

The plotlines are bleak, the locations are forbidding and the main characters are usually angst-ridden alcoholics. So why is Scandinavian crime writing suddenly the hottest genre in town?

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january 2009 by tabardroad

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TV ratings - August 18: New Tricks conquers Corrie
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august 2008 by tabardroad

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Patricia Routledge says BBC is run by '10-year-old children'

Actress Patricia Routledge has claimed that the BBC is run by '10-year-old children' after bosses decided not to recommission her detective series.

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june 2008 by tabardroad

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Life On Mars US hits the skids

The US remake of hit BBC show Life on Mars is facing stormy waters on its transatlantic crossing after losing its writer-producer and scrapping its original pilot.

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june 2008 by tabardroad

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Detective drama in the works at ITVP

ITV Productions is developing a new detective drama set in Brighton, led by a police sergeant obsessed with the disappearance of his own wife.

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june 2008 by tabardroad

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Sous le vent de Neptune

TV adaptation of the Fred Vargas novel 'Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand'.

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may 2008 by tabardroad

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screenonline: Gentle Touch, The (1980-84)

The Gentle Touch had the distinction of being the first police drama series on British television with a female protagonist. Premiering on ITV in April 1980, it beat the BBC's Juliet Bravo (1980-85) to the punch by four months.

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may 2008 by tabardroad

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Messiah V

Messiah returns to BBC One with Marc Warren (Hustle) heading up a new team on the hunt of a sadistic and meticulous killer in a story that is as dark and entertaining as ever.

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january 2008 by tabardroad

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Kenneth Branagh stars in Wallander for BBC One

Kenneth Branagh returns to BBC One to play the unique Swedish detective Kurt Wallander in three new single films for the channel.

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january 2008 by tabardroad

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Minghella & Curtis collaborate for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency sees Anthony Minghella direct a script, adapted by Minghella and Richard Curtis, from the novel by Alexander McCall Smith.

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january 2008 by tabardroad

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BBC - Press Office - Minghella & Curtis collaborate for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

BBC Drama and The Weinstein Company today announce an exceptional and ambitious, single film from Anthony Minghella and Richard Curtis by Mirage Enterprises for BBC One – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

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december 2007 by tabardroad

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Interview with Poirot star David Suchet | the Daily Mail

David Suchet has been entertaining viewers over four decades. Eleanor Glover caught up with the 62-year-old to discuss his love of London, how he hates the idea of celebrity and why the character of Poirot is still a challenge...

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november 2007 by tabardroad

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New Statesman - Zen and the art of crime

Ruth Rendell aside, no English writer has done more to expose the workings of the illusory barricade between crime fiction and literature.

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september 2007 by tabardroad

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The genre that just won't die

Comics are to be Hercule Poirot's latest incarnation. It's the latest twist to crime fiction, a genre constantly reinvented in its 170-year history.

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august 2007 by tabardroad

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Chez Poirot on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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august 2007 by tabardroad

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BBC ditches The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Long-running BBC drama The Inspector Lynley Mysteries has been dropped by the Corporation to make way for new projects.

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august 2007 by tabardroad

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Who Do You Want To Solve Your Murder?

LIVING has commissioned a new clip-based show. Revealing which TV detectives people would trust to investigate their own murders, and will interview the actors who played TV detectives such as George Baker...

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july 2007 by tabardroad

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New Tricks commissioned for a fifth series

A fifth series of the hit BBC One drama New Tricks has been green lit following the hugely successful current run of series four.

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june 2007 by tabardroad

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Mars stars reunite for film caper

Life on Mars stars John Simm and Philip Glenister have reunited for a heist movie set in the 1980s, called Tuesday.

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may 2007 by tabardroad

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The Stage | Reviews | TV review | George Gently | Life on Mars

Actors, especially good ones, do have their uses. Take the cast of George Gently. Martin Shaw stars as the eponymous detective, whose crusade to eradicate police corruption from Scotland Yard, circa 1964, leads to the murder of his wife....

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april 2007 by tabardroad

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Ashes To Ashes

DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) is back but he's no longer the self-styled "Sheriff of Manchester".

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april 2007 by tabardroad

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George Gently

Martin Shaw stars in the title role of George Gently, an adaptation of the Inspector Gently series of novels by Alan Hunter. The star cast also includes Phil Davis, Richard Armitage and Lee Ingleby.

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april 2007 by tabardroad

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George Gently – a gripping new detective drama – premieres Sunday 8 April at 9pm on BBC One.

In his first ever literary adaptation for television, writer Peter Flannery re-visits Sixties Britain for George Gently, an adaptation of one of the Inspector Gently series of novels by Alan Hunter. Martin Shaw stars in the title

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march 2007 by tabardroad

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Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars

Jonathan Pryce and Bill Paterson head the cast of Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars, an original Sherlock Holmes mystery.

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march 2007 by tabardroad

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David Jason to quit Frost after 15 years

David Jason is set to quit popular ITV cop drama A Touch Of Frost after 15 years, saying that he had only so much time in a year to work.

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february 2007 by tabardroad

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Martin Shaw returns to BBC One in George Gently

In his first ever literary adaptation for television, Our Friends In The North writer Peter Flannery re-visits 1960s Britain for George Gently (working title), an adaptation of one of the Inspector Gently series of novels, by Alan Hunter, for BBC One.

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january 2007 by tabardroad

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New role for Martin Shaw role could mean end of Judge John Deed

Martin Shaw, star of the BBC1 series Judge John Deed, may be preparing to hang up his wig and take on a major new BBC drama role - that of 1950s East Anglian copper, George Gently.

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october 2006 by tabardroad

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Hit BBC drama Life on Mars to end

Hit BBC One time warp drama Life on Mars is to end after the next series.

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october 2006 by tabardroad

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UKTV Drama strikes exclusive Taggart deal

UKTV Drama has licensed 89 hours of SMG Productions’ popular series Taggart and Rebus, starring John Hannah, from leading UK distributor Minotaur International in a seven-figure deal.

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october 2006 by tabardroad

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kevin whately @ oriel college, oxford - a photoset on Flickr

kevin talks about 14 years of morse, working with john thaw, and starring in the english patient...

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september 2006 by tabardroad

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david suchet @ syon park - a photoset on Flickr

david suchet discusses 20 years of poirot - making of documentary by daisybeck tv for itv

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september 2006 by tabardroad

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The Sweeney Flies Back

Classic cops getting a 21st century spin.

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september 2006 by tabardroad

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The rich language of death is universal

The other day at some frightful literary awards ceremony, I fell in with the great Ruth Rendell and we spoke of the novels of Henning Mankell. I was not surprised when she told me that she preferred to read them in Swedish. And, unlike my wimpish 20-year-

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august 2006 by tabardroad

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Poirot to detect new generation online

Agatha Christie's fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are set to go digital in a bid to bring the author's widely read crime stories to the internet generation.

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august 2006 by tabardroad

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Now let us mourn passing of fine prose

Who needs a well-crafted sentence when you're pulling a .38 slug out of a small intestine?

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august 2006 by tabardroad

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Rebel with a cause

Crime writer Peter Robinson explains why his Inspector Banks must be a maverick.

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july 2006 by tabardroad

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