'The Madame Blanc Mysteries' Renewed for a Third Season

The "cozy crime" mystery series is one of British TV's most popular genres. Police procedurals, in general, have been popular since back in the radio days, but sometimes it feels like BritBox and Acorn TV are stuffed so full of them it's hard to know which to watch, and some wind up lost to viewers. However, The Madame Blanc Mysteries are not one of them, having proved so popular since Acorn TV and Channel 5 originally teamed up to produce the antique-dealer-as-crime-solver that the show is now greenlit for a third series and a Christmas special.

Originally announced under the working title The Reluctant Madame Blanc, the series was initially conceived by British actor Sally Lindsay (Mount Pleasant), who also writes and stars as its lead character, Cheshire antique dealer Jean White. Her operation, based in the south of France, also winds up assisting in solving "an array of mysteries and deaths" in the fictional village of Sainte Victoire, according to the original logline. Her husband, musician Steve White, wrote the show's theme, "Passing Through," specifically for the project.

The series debuted on Acorn TV in November 2021 and then followed on Channel 5, with a second season renewal and the show's first Christmas special commissioned in August 2022. Due to the show's second season premiere scheduled for early 2023, the Festive Special functioned as a pre-Season 2 debut episode, much like the Call The Midwife Christmas specials do on the BBC. With a second special for 2023 and a third season confirmed to follow, it seems a good assumption the show will follow the same storytelling pattern.