3 d. ago Netflix releases 'brilliant' period drama adaptation from 'best author'

The beloved ITV series has arrived on Netflix with all episodes available now

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5 d. ago ITVX is showing 'best' Miss Marple drama that's 'just like' Agatha Christie book

Miss Marple is a character hugely loved by Agatha Christie fans; however, one TV drama has been deemed the "best" adaptation. ITVX is now showing the series that's said to be "just like" the book

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9 d. ago Mia McKenna Bruce's life from height to wedding with famous husband

Mia McKenna Bruce stars as the lead character in Agatha Christie's Seven Dials.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Agatha Christie's Seven Dials: Mix yourself a cocktail and enjoy this frightfully glorious mystery

It opens with a wild house party, crammed with Bright Young Things and dashing chaps from the Foreign Office, whooping it up to the sound of a jazz band - mayhem with an edge of debauchery.

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1 week ago Agatha Christie's leading lady in new Netflix murder mystery Seven Dials is inspired by HERSELF

A century after she was written into being by Agatha Christie, Lady Eileen Brent (to give Bundle her proper name) has finally been discovered by Netflix.

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1 week ago ITVX is showing 'best ever' Agatha Christie drama that's 'just like book'

As Netflix prepares to drop Seven Dials, Agatha Christie fans are praising an ITV drama they deem the "best ever" adaptation. It's said to perfectly capture the spirit of the book

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1 week ago Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials review – think Downton Abbey is real? This terrible adaptation is for you

Martin Freeman does his best to lift this three-parter, but it feels like Enid Blyton – made for an international market that thinks Paddington Bear is holding the queen’s hand in heaven‘Tis the season, just, for your annual Agatha Christie. In recent years, the adaptations have been infused with the grief and instability of the postwar backdrop against which they all exist, and been given rich, dark, adult inflections by Sarah Phelps for the BBC.The latest, however, is for Netflix by Chris Chibnall and we are back in the world of period costume, clipped vowels and dialogue infused with nothing but plot, designed to get the puzzle pieces recited into the right position for the next bit then the next bit then the solve – this time at the end of three very hour-long episodes. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials on Netflix review: deliciously twisty mystery fare

It’s camp, it’s silly and it’s utterly absurd. What’s not to like?

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1 week ago Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials review – A country house mystery crackling with wit and escapist glamour

Netflix manages to capture the seductive appeal of Britain’s Roaring Twenties in this spirited and ingeniously plotted espionage thriller

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1 week ago Agatha Christie's Seven Dials star recalls 'acting drunk' to land break

Netflix star Mia McKenna-Bruce has opened up about the peculiar technique she used during her audition for the life-changing role.

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1 week ago Helena Bonham Carter teases Seven Dials’ killer twist: ‘I didn’t see it coming’

Helena Bonham Carter has teased a killer twist in Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Netflix’s upcoming murder mystery series.

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2 w. ago Helena Bonham Carter puts on a striking display in a floral gown as she joins glamorous co

The gripping three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1929 novel sees Mia putting on her detective hat in the role of Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent, as she set out to solve an enigmatic murder.

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2 w. ago You think this is bad? Scientists reveal British winters could get WORSE if the Gulf Stream collapses

As the UK continues to battle snow and icy conditions this week, scientists have warned that British winters could get even worse.

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2 w. ago His & Hers review – this glossy thriller is ideal new year TV

This six-part adaptation of the bestselling 2020 novel about a murder investigation is twisty, absurd and bingeable. It’s great January viewingA woman lies bloodied and twitching her last on the bonnet of a car parked deep in a wood. Another woman arrives home bloodied, gasping with fear and for wine, and starts scrubbing her hands before clearing her flat of – well, everything.A female voiceover intones that there are two sides to every story. “Which means someone is always lying.” Absolute nonsense, obviously, but it sounds great and more importantly it confirms what we were hoping: that we are in the presence of a glossy, efficient adaptation of a bestselling thriller and it is time to switch off our brains and enjoy (unless you are the type who likes to try to solve the mystery before the characters do, in which case, Godspeed and let me know where you get the energy from). Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Netflix debuts gripping new trailer for Agatha Christie's Seven Dials that sees Mia McKenna

The gripping three-part series sees Mia McKenna-Bruce putting on her detective hat in the role of Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent, as she set out to solve an enigmatic murder.

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3 w. ago Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials Netflix release date, cast, trailer, plot

Fans of the Queen of Crime have a new murder mystery to sink their teeth into

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3 w. ago With Seven Dials mystery tipped as Netflix hit we investigate Agatha Christie's London

It is half a century since the Queen of Crime laid down her pen for the final time, yet Agatha Christie is about to dominate the literary landscape once again

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3 w. ago The best way to get round a difficult problem? Do nothing about it | Gaby Hinsliff

From Agatha Christie doing the dishes to the cancer surgeon inspired at the theatre, an idling brain suddenly seems able to join the dotsIf you really want to solve a problem, try doing nothing about it. Fold some laundry. Stir a risotto. Go for a run, watch a film, try to entertain someone else’s baby: anything that involves pottering about in an undemanding yet still vaguely engaged way, which absolutely couldn’t be classed as work but isn’t totally vegetative either. It may not be the productivity hack any go-getter wants to hear, but it’s surprising how often a spell of aimless noodling around frees an otherwise overworked human brain to make the kind of lateral mental leap that helps everything fall into place. And I’m not just saying that to justify a New Year’s Day spent lying hungover on the sofa, ploughing through the last of the Christmas cheese.For the eminent cancer surgeon Michael Baum, it was a night off with his wife at the theatre that allowed him to suddenly join th...

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3 w. ago 'Best ever' Agatha Christie series with 'shocking' twist is on BBC iPlayer now

The three-part series based on an Agatha Christie novel stars Bill Nighy, with fans calling it the 'best adaptation in recent memory'.

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3 w. ago 'Masterpiece' period drama is 'best Agatha Christie adaptation in recent memory'

The miniseries, starring an A-list cast and based on an Agatha Christie novel, has earned a 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

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