Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie (2009)

Genre

crime comedy film

Country

France

Length

3 seasons, 48 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This French series adapts Agatha Christie's murder mysteries into two distinct eras. The first season is set in the 1930s with a police commissioner and his inspector, while the second moves to the late 1950s and 1960s with a new team including a journalist. Each episode presents a classic whodunit case to solve.

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What happens

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie is a French comédie policière (comedic police crime drama) television programme consisting of two series based loosely on Agatha Christie's works of detective fiction, first broadcast on France 2 on 9 January 2009. In English-speaking countries, Series One is titled "The Little Murders of Agatha Christie" and Series Two is titled "Agatha Christie's Criminal Games". Series One takes place in the 1930s with Commissaire (approximately DCI) Larosière (Antoine Duléry) and Inspecteur Lampion (Marius Colucci). Series Two is set in the late 1950s through early 1960s with Commissaire Swan Laurence (Samuel Labarthe), journalist Alice Avril (Blandine Bellavoir), and Laurence's secretary, Marlène Leroy (Élodie Frenck). Series One streams with English subtitles in the United States on Acorn TV and MHz Choice, Series Two streams with English subtitles in the United States on MHz Choice and in Australia on SBS. The thirty-eight episodes to the end of Series Two include adaptations of thirty-six of Christie's works. A third series, with a new cast and set in 1970s France, was announced in 2019 and released starting in 2021. Although the title bearing Christie's name remained, most of the episodes were original stories "in the spirit of Christie's works" because the producer felt that the remaining books would be "too difficult to adapt", or because of rights issues in some cases. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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