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Airdate: Being Poirot

Cameras follow David Suchet as he prepares for the final days' filming Agatha Christie: Poirot.

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2014-06-10_2344Next week ABC1 screens the documentary Being Poirot.

In this 2013 doco, actor David Suchet (Agatha Christie: Poirot) allows the camera crew to follow him as he prepares for the emotional final days’ filming on set and travels to Agatha Christie’s Summer home in Devon, where he first met the author’s family and to Belgium.

After two decades playing one of television’s greatest icons, David Suchet unravels the mysterious appeal of the great detective Hercule Poirot and reveals what it is like to play one of fiction’s most enduring creations.

8:30pm Tuesday ABC1.

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  1. What’s weirder is the last story “Curtain” was written in the forties and reworked for the seventies. Supposedly she wrote it in case she died because of WWII. I’ll admit I prefer the fifties look because the seventies just didn’t have much style at all.

  2. Something I recently discovered was that Agatha Christie wrote all of her Poirot books with a contemporary setting, with the final book written (and set) in the early 1970s.

    Apparently the earlier settings were decided upon by the show’s producers (the 1950s for the final episode) as they thought the show would lose some of its appeal if they stayed true to the books.

  3. Thanks David…I am a fan of the shows…the actor and the author…but I never knew she wrote an ending for Poirot….the last series was excellent…well four of the five…one was a bit weird…

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