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David Suchet
9 July 2009  09:57 GMT+1 - updated 10 July 23:15
 
Three Act Tragedy

 

According to Press Association the film crew of Poirot has now moved on to shoot Three Act Tragedy, the second episode of the four new films this year, in London.
 
The cast includes Kimberly Stewart (reality star and daughter of Rod Stewart) as Doris, Martin Shaw, Art Malik as Sir Bartholomew Strange, Kate Ashfield, Kimberley Nixon as Miss Egg Lytton Gore, Jane Asher, and Tom Wisdom. Martin Shaw plays Sir Charles Cartwright, a friend of Poirot, who assists the little Belgian sleuth in his investigations.

 

”In Three Act Tragedy, Poirot visits Cornwall to attend a dinner hosted by his friend Sir Charles Cartwright. When an amiable local Reverend chokes to death on his cocktail, Poirot cannot see how murder can have been committed. There seems to be no motive for murder and as Poirot predicts, no trace of poison is found in the Reverend's glass... ” – Press Association
 
The episode is adapted for TV by Nick Dear, directed by Ashley Pearce and produced by Karen Thrussel.
 
Will be updated if/when I get to know more...
 
6 July 2009  updated 7 July 14:58 GMT+1
 
Suchet in Pratchett's Going Postal...
 
According to TV Scoop SkyOne has commissioned a tv adoptation of one of Terry Pratchett’s popular Discworld children fantasy novels, Going Postal, with Suchet as Reacher Gilt, the ruthless chairman of the communication monopoly, Grand Trunk Clacks, in the city of Ankh-Morpork (aka Budapest).  

 

Suchet is joined by Richard Coyle as arch-swindler Moist Von Lipwig, Claire Foy as Adora Belle Dearheart, Charles Dance as Lord Vetinari, Steve Pemberton as Drumknott, Andrew Sachs as Groat and Tamsin Greig as Miss Crisplock.

 

The story:
Con-man Moist Von Lipwig is sentenced to death for his crimes but is saved in the last minute by Lord Vetinari, who wants him to become Postmaster in the city of Ankh-Morpork. It turns out that the post office is almost abandoned and malfunctioned with decades of undelivered mail. When Moist tries to restore the postal service he finds he is up against shadowy characters who rather want to see him dead than to see the post office running efficiently.

 

It’s the third Discworld novel produced for SkyOne and it will come as a two-parter, each episode one and a half hour long. Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle has adapted the story and Jon Jones is directing. 
 
The tv series will broadcast next year in UK around Easter. According to Digital Spy the production has already started.
 
Seems we're in for a treat with a Suchet dressed up as an ex-pirate with one eye and a cockatoo on his shoulder...
 
The Discworld universe on SkyOne
 
 
Poirot in France...
 
Fans in France will be pleased to know that two of the latest Poirot episodes air on French TMC the next two Wednesdays. First episode is Mrs McGinty’s Dead July 8 at 20:40 followed by Cat Among The Pigeons July 15 also at 20:40 – Enjoy! 

 

TMC  - Thanks Pascale!

 
 
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