Agatha and the Midnight Murders
Genre
  • Crime
  • Mystery
Written byTom Dalton
Directed byJoe Stephenson
Starring
ComposerBlair Mowat
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
  • Emily Dalton
  • Sebastian Cardwell
ProducersCarol Harding
Tom Dalton
CinematographyBirgit Dierken
Editor
  • Fiona Brands
Running time93 Minutes
Production companiesDarlow Smithson Productions
Factual Fiction
Original release
NetworkChannel 5
Release
  • 5 October 2020 (2020-10-05)

Agatha and the Midnight Murders is a 2020 British alternative history television drama film about crime writer Agatha Christie. The film premiered on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2020,[1] and on PBS in the United States 25 May 2021.[2] It was directed by Joe Stephenson.[3]

Plot

Christie is having trouble collecting the American royalties on her published works. In a bid to make a private cash sale of a manuscript, therefore, she decides to kill off her most famous character, Hercule Poirot. She hires a low-life man to accompany her as a bodyguard for a cut of the price. The action takes place in a hotel where Christie expects to complete the transaction. Christie and her bodyguard encounter the prospective buyers and a varied group of hotel guests. The suspense builds as a series of murders takes place in the hotel.

Cast

Production

Filming took place in Malta, back-to-back with Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar.[4]

Reception

The show was poorly received by critics. Writing in The Guardian, Euan Ferguson said: "It was a mess: ill-plotted, playing bits for laughs or for horror without ever achieving either."[5] Anita Singh of The Daily Telegraph gave the show 2 out of 5 stars, writing: "All of the characters' behavior felt a little weird, and it was not clear if that was by accident or design. Some were caricatures while others were barely there."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Carr, Flora (7 October 2020). "Meet the cast of Agatha and the Midnight Murders". Radio Times.
  2. ↑ Agatha and the Midnight Murders PBS, accessed 19 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 Singh, Anita (7 October 2020). "Agatha and the Midnight Murders, review: this sneaky Christie isn't a patch on the real thing". The Daily Telegraph.
  4. ↑ Creamer, Jon (14 May 2020). "Emily and Tom Dalton launch docs and drama indie".
  5. ↑ Ferguson, Euan (11 October 2020). "The week in TV: In the Face of Terror; David Attenborough; Deaf U; Agatha and the Midnight Murders". The Guardian.
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