At 71, she has overemployment, globally
The world has had plenty of reasons for actors to be unemployed. There’s Covid, halting Read more…
British mysteries
Solitary, solemn Brits keep solving mysteries
As our TV sets fill up with British crime-solvers, some traditions persist.
At home, these people are solemn and solitary. That has continued – with occasional exceptions – from Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot, Inspector Morse and more.
And it’s true of Max Arnold in “The Chelsea Detective” series (shown here), on the Acorn streaming service. “I think he’s a born-again melancholic,” Adrian Scarborough, who plays him, told the Television Critics Association. “Putting him … in the middle of the Thames, on his little houseboat, was very deliberate.”
That’s part of an overload of crime tales from England and its former colonies: Read more…
A pondering poet keeps solving murders
Poets and policemen, at their best, are observers.
They parse their words, delay their judgments. For Adam Dalgleish – a poetry-writing police detective – it’s a long delay.
Now Dalgliesh (shown here) is back in our TV sets, with movies streaming on the first three Mondays of November. Read more…
The British master old-cop/young-cop tales
American TV may savor the good-cop/bad-cop concept.
But in England – where crime shows flourish – there’s old-cop/young cop. Just ask Neil Dudgeon (shown here), whose “Midsomer Murders” is starting a four-movie stretch on the Acorn streaming service.
“I spent a lot of times as a younger actor, (paired with) a senior actor,” Dudgeon told the Television Critics Association. “And the senior actor would do all the thinking and be rather brilliant at solving a crime. And then he would say to me: ‘Oh, look, he’s run off into the river. Chase him!’” Read more…