television
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Stylish Television: The Åre Murders
Netflix has become a great place for fans of crime, both crime fiction and true crime. The Harlan Corben adaptations have become a New Year’s treat, eagerly anticipated by all. Now Netflix has bought into the Scandi Noir trend with their newest hit series. The Åre Murders, which are set in the Swedish ski resort of Åre are atmospheric thrillers in the whodunnit style/ They are set in the most beautiful and eye catching of scenery, and have a central partnership filled with chemistry and a growing sexual tension that just has to be explored in further episodes. (fingers crossed Netflix!) What’s it about? The Åre Murders are based on…
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Sophie Ellis Bextor Brings In 2025
BBC have become synonymous with music stars ringing in the new year. Whether it be Jools Holland and his now legendary Hootenanny lighting up BBC2, or a selected music star in a specially broadcast concert on BBC1, television on New Year’s Eve is about music. This year, it was Sophie Ellis Bextor, fresh from a stellar year off the back of a certain song appearing in a certain movie, who bought the glitter and glamour and the sounds of the Kitchen Disco as we said goodbye to 2024. I’m a huge fan of Sophie, and her particular brand of retro disco. I’ve only seen her live once, during her Groovejet…
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Stylish Television: Moonflower Murders
The eagerly awaited sequel to last year’s hit Magpie Murders is now showing on BBC1 on Saturday nights. Moonflower Murders again pits literary editor Susan Ryland into the world of fictional detective Atticus Pund in order to solve a murder and disappearance in real life. Susan, who had a very love/hate relationship with Pund’s creator, the author Adrian Conway, once again has to navigate the clues left in the book to try to find the missing hotelier Cecily, who, after reading the Pund book, Atticus Pünd Takes the Case, believes that there may have been a miscarriage of justice in a murder that took place in her family hotel, and…
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Stylish Television: Rivals
Jilly Cooper’s raunchy books were real favourites of mine when I was a teenager. Imogen was my personal fave, but I also loved Rivals and Riders, which are amongst her most infamous reads. Now Rivals has been turned into one of the best TV shows of the year. It is currently available to stream on Disney+, and I binged the whole series in 2 days last week. It is, quite frankly, unmissable. It is my favourite television of 2024. Rivals is flashy, trashy and oh so watchable. The characters are memorable, the performances are wonderful. From David Tennant chewing up the scenery with relish in his role as the ‘bad…
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Stylish Television – Death And Other Details
I love a good murder mystery. And when the mystery is a string of murders, taking place on the most beautiful, Art Deco cruise liner (based on the Normandie maybe?), then I am totally sold. Add a beautiful, glamorous cast, a fiesty heroine, and a brilliant tongue in cheek performance from Mandy Patinkin, who I totally loved as Sol in Homeland, and you have the unmissable ‘Death and other Details’ something that has filled my ‘Only murders in the building’ gap this early Spring. The premise of Death and Other Details is initially quite simple. A cruise ship that is packed with specially invited guests is the scene of the…
