Airdate: Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games
Agatha Christie may not seem like an obvious fit for SBS but wait....
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Agatha Christie may not seem like an obvious fit for SBS but Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games gives classic tales a French twist.
Les petits meurtres d’Agatha Christie originally aired in 2009 but continues in 2018.
Set in the 1950s, these iconic stories introduce new investigators in classic Christie style: Chief Inspector Laurence, a man of class and refined taste, and the young ambitious journalist Alice Avril – along with Laurence’s ever-loyal secretary, Marlene.
Series One, Episode One: They Do It With Mirrors
Dr Bousquet runs a rehabilitation and mental health clinic for criminals, but their presence in the house worries his family. When two people are killed, Commissioner Laurence investigates trying to avoid the eager journalist Alice Avril from ruining his case. But were Dr Bousquet’s patients truly the villains in this story? Or does his family have a dark side?
Monday, 2 April at 11.50pm on SBS.
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aww only a couple months ago did I buy three box sets of this from Amazon UK. Now it finally starts on SBS
You’re the winner here! No ads, no watermarks, no having to record it because it’s on too late (and probably copping a head or tail crop due to SBS’s slack timing…… win-win for you!
Let me get this right, different country, different detectives, different setting and different story. Why not call it “The Mirror Wasn’t Cracked” and avoid any copyright fees.
Agatha Christine usually attracts an older audience so why show it at midnight? Why not show it on a Saturday night when ratings don’t matter as much or even a Sunday afternoon.
The rationale is that it is primarily a SBS on Demand property, so it is there that the majority of viewers are expected to watch it. Presumably when picking up these shows they are contractually obligated to give them a FTA airing, and they have a lot of “exclusive” SBS on Demand titles, so they have 2 burn-off slots to get through them all – Tuesdays from 11ish which is the primary one and also this Monday one.
Interesting reply. I understand where they are coming from but maximising your audience should also be a consideration. Plus SBS gets hammered for showing too much American content these days so something like this show would help change that perception.
SBS on Demand has ads you can’t fast forward through, so I never go there! Nup.
I’d watch, but w-a-y too late for this little black duck. And before anyone says time shifting or SBS on-demand or even video recording – in the bush you can’t when you are on satellite everything.