Magpie Murders starring Daniel Mays is now streaming on BritBox UK.
The reviews are in and it’s a resounding hit!
The Telegraph – ★★★★
The Times – ★★★★
Radio Times – ★★★★
The Arts Desk – ★★★★★
Watch Magpie Murders on BritBox UK (subscription needed but they do offer a 7 day free trial)
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Today’s the day! Magpie Murders is now available to stream exclusively on Britbox UK. Daniel Mays stars in a dual role as DI Locke and DI Chubb. All episodes are available today!
Magpie Murders (Anthony Horowitz) revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, played by Lesley Manville, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript by bestselling mystery writer Alan Conway, featuring Conway’s detective Atticus Pünd – and has little idea it will change her life…
Danny has had some press appearances this week:
RTS – Preview Q&A
Virgin Radio UK – Chris Evans – Danny’s interview begins around the 3 hour mark.
Good Morning Britain:
Magpie Murders will premiere later this year in the US on Masterpiece PBS.
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Britbox UK has released the series trailer for Magpie Murders starring Daniel Mays.
Premiering on Britbox UK on Thursday, 10 February, the television adaptation is scripted by Anthony Horowitz: “Magpie Murders is my most successful novel and it wasn’t easy to adapt. But I think the result is a completely original drama that will delight and beguile audiences in equal measure.” Magpie Murders is streaming in the U.K. exclusively on BritBox UK beginning Thursday, 10 February. and later in 2022 on MASTERPIECE in the US. Magpie Murders is an Eleventh Hour Films production for MASTERPIECE in the US and BritBox UK and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television.
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BritboxUK and Masterpiece PBS have released the first look photos of Magpie Murders including Daniel Mays in character.
Magpie Murders revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, played by Lesley Manville, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript by bestselling mystery writer Alan Conway, featuring Conway’s detective Atticus Pünd – and has little idea it will change her life.
Earlier this year, PBS’ MASTERPIECE and Britbox UK announced that they will co-produce and broadcast Magpie Murders, a new drama based on the bestselling novel written by Anthony Horowitz OBE.
The six-part series is produced by Jill Green and Eleventh Hour Films. Lauded as “a magnificent piece of crime fiction” and “an ingenious novel within a novel” by the Sunday Times (London), Magpie Murders topped multiple best-seller lists including the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and appeared on the year-end Best Books lists of NPR, USA Today and others. Its international awards include the prestigious Macavity Award for Best Novel. A beguiling murder mystery with a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, the plot of Magpie Murders revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway’s latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.
The television adaptation is scripted by Horowitz, who is known to MASTERPIECE fans for the popular World War II mystery Foyle’s War. MASTERPIECE executive producer Susanne Simpson said, “Anthony Horowitz is a master mystery writer, and Magpie Murders is a beautiful and complex work. Our MASTERPIECE audience will truly enjoy this intriguing story of a mystery within a mystery.” MASTERPIECE is presented on PBS by WGBH Boston.Anthony Horowitz said, “Magpie Murders is my most successful novel and it wasn’t easy to adapt. But I think the result is a completely original drama that will delight and beguile audiences in equal measure.” Jill Green said, “This is an extraordinary and distinctive drama. I don’t think there’s ever been a crime show like it with a strong female lead treading the line between reality and fiction as she fights to uncover the truth.” Magpie Murders is streaming in the U.K. exclusively on BritBox UK. Magpie Murders is an Eleventh Hour Films production for MASTERPIECE and BritBox UK and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television
Magpie Murders will premiere in 2022!
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