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Post by pandaeyes on Aug 26, 2020 10:55:23 GMT
Sheridan Smith takes us on a tour of the top 25 TV Detectives. From Marple to Magnum P.I., to Luther to Line of Duty, taking Cagney and Lacey along the way. I think there was a show like this a few years back, when Bradley Walsh was host.
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Post by sootycat on Aug 26, 2020 11:17:15 GMT
As I love detective shows I will definitely watch this.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Aug 26, 2020 13:18:40 GMT
When and which channel, please?
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Post by marion on Aug 26, 2020 14:07:22 GMT
ITV Sunday 30 August, 8.00 - 10.00.
If like me you are already down for Strike and My Life is Murder, it is repeated on Monday at 10.30.
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Post by bethb63 on Aug 26, 2020 14:40:28 GMT
ITV have been airing a few “classic” episodes of candidates in the run up to this. I watched the final episode of Morse last night.
It did make me laugh when one of the prime suspects used an alibi that he had popped over to Stokenchurch to try and get a glimpse of the elusive red kite. 20 years on, it’s more a case of drive down the M40 and throw a pebble in the air - you’ll probably hit three on the wing.
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Post by marion on Aug 26, 2020 16:36:27 GMT
Well one of my top contenders is Lewis. I loved him! 💗
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Post by goodhelenstar on Aug 26, 2020 16:45:36 GMT
Thank you! Not sure I have a favourite, though it might just be Ted 'I didn't float down the Laggan in a bubble' Hastings (like the battle), so it might.
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Post by bethb63 on Aug 26, 2020 18:36:55 GMT
Watching Morse, I don’t think the character holds up too well now. I also would rather watch Lewis. Britain’s overall favourite? I think it will be Poirot.
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Post by profbooboo on Aug 26, 2020 20:12:49 GMT
Well one of my top contenders is Lewis. I loved him! 💗 I'm not a huge fan of these 2hr detective shows, but Ive seen every Lewis. I saw half an episode on ITV3, the one where Hathaway has a neck brace on, and obviously Ive missed how he got the neck brace so find the episode and enjoyed it so ended up watching them all...and that's also the reason for my love of all the old Brit films Ive been watching the last year. I wanted to know if Laurence Fox looked like James Fox at a similar age (not really) so watched The Servant, and then most of his back catalogue, then went back to The Servant and Dirk Bogardes back catalogue and Bogarde led to Michael Craig films and Richard Attenborough, Kenneth More, Dennis Price, Donald Sinden, John Mills, Alan Bates, Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay etc. And all this because of Lewis! I hope they don't forget about The Bill with Roach, Burnside, Lines etc and The underrated Galloway (because those episodes are hardly repeated). Is it just going to be ITV shows? The trailer is all ITV shows, but If I'd have thought Gene Hunt would be there. And if they go for Sherlock Holmes which incarnation. Some favour Cumberbatch some Jeremy Brett. Same with Marple. |
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Post by spinninghead on Aug 27, 2020 8:37:00 GMT
Shouldn't this be re-titled "Britain's Favourite ITV Detective"?
The ones featured in the trailers are only detectives shown on ITV.
No room then for Joan Hickson - the best Miss Marple there's ever been.
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Post by marion on Aug 27, 2020 9:15:17 GMT
She was wonderful!
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Post by Geoffers on Aug 27, 2020 17:00:45 GMT
It is called Britain's Favourite Detective,as voted for by ITV viewers.
Top 25.
So not just ITV, all they are doing is just repeating some previous shows.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Aug 31, 2020 8:29:54 GMT
These shows are always contentious. I have no right to an opinion as I didn't vote, but am not at all surprised that Sherlock Holmes, in all his incarnations, came out top. Some interesting omissions – Gene Hunt, Regan and Carter from The Sweeney, Starsky and Hutch (other American detectives were included and S&H were surely on a par with them), Bergerac, Jimmy Perez were all conspicuous by their absence.
A pity Sheridan Smith didn't take the trouble to learn the pronunciation of The Bridge's characters and actors.
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Post by profbooboo on Aug 31, 2020 12:45:15 GMT
She didn't pronounce Gatiss correctly either, saying Gat-iss instead of Gay-tiss.
I haven't watch this yet, but they'll be loads missing as there been so many over the years. Pendleton, Bayliss, Lewis, Munch & Co are too niche for that list.
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Post by hoodylover on Aug 31, 2020 19:31:45 GMT
Sherlock Holmes is my all-time favourite detective, so it's good news for me. I haven't watched it, but I might not bother if Sheridan Smith is pronouncing people's names incorrectly. She irritates me without doing that!
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Anymore to come?
