LeftBank producer Suzanne Mackie launches her own company, Orchid Pictures, with The Seven Dials Mystery, the first of a planned series of Agatha Christie adaptations for Netflix, penned by Doctor Who's Chris Chibnall.
Contributor Marni Cerise joins the ladies to dig into BritBox's latest Agatha Christie adaptation, a thoroughly modern if somewhat brisk adaptation of Murder Is Easy.
A sumptuous visual feast, Murder is Easy excels at adapting a Christie tale from its original era, infusing the story with themes of national identity, race and class relations, and gender disparity while teasing out a clever mystery.