ANDREW BUCHAN, JOHN MALKOVICH, RUPERT GRINT TO LEAD BBC'S 'ABC MURDERS' AGATHA CHRISTIE MINI SERIES! IDRIS ELBA IS QUASIMODO IN NETFLIX' 'THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME' MUSICAL

  BBC'S 'THE ABC MURDERS'

ANDREW BUCHAN, RUPERT GRINT, JOHN MALKOVICH IN NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE TV SERIES

BBC One and Amazon have announced the cast for their new Agatha Christie three part drama THE ABC MURDERS, the fourth one in the

Andrew Buchan will star as one of the male leads

slate. Produced by Poldark and Victoria's Mammoth Screen it will have a cast led by Andrew Buchan, Rupert Grint and John Malkovich who will play Hercule Poirot (the strangest and, if I may say, the most off-putting of choices)! Rupert Grint will be Inspector Crome, Andrew Buchan is Franklin Clarke, with Eamon Farren, Tara Fitzgerald, Bronwyn James and Freya Mavor also in the cast!

 THE ABC MURDERS is set in the 1930s; a time when the nation is dangerously divided and suspicion and hatred are on the rise. In the midst of this Poirot faces a serial killer known only as A.B.C. First the killer strikes in Andover, then Bexhill. As the murder count rises, the only clue is the copy of

White Princess' Freya Mavor and Rupert Grint will also star!

The ABC Railway Guide at each crime scene. Poirot�s investigations are thwarted at every turn by an enemy determined to outsmart him. If Poirot is to match his nemesis then everything about him will be called into question; his authority, his integrity, his past, his identity.

  IDRIS ELBA IS THE NEW

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Idris Elba is the new Quasimodo!

Rival Netflix is meanwhile moving over to Notre Dame with no one else but Idris Elba. In the third or possibly fourth of the current projects on that topic, he will play the famous Hunchback! As 'Hollywood Reporter' reports Netflix' THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME adaptation of Victor Hugo's famous story will be a musical experience! Beside playing the famous guard of the church called Quasimodo who is secretly in love with a gorgeous gipsy girl Esmeralda, Idris Elba will also produce the movie and write original songs for it! It is not so strange as he really did play as a DJ in a number of music festivals around Europe. The Current War director Michael Mitnick is set to helm the new adaptation of the French classic.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON AGATHA CHRISTIE'S 'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE' MINI SERIES WITH BILL NIGHY, MATTHEW GOODE, ELEANOR TOMLINSON, LUKE TREADAWAY, CHRISTIAN COOKE

   'ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE'

NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES

The series starts this Easter Sunday

Although we thought Sarah Phelps' adaptation of Witness for the Prosecution was ghastly bad last year at BBC, we did absolutely adore And Then There Were None the year before it, so we are ready to give ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE her latest Agatha Christie project a go when it starts airing Easter Sunday at BBC. It was originally supposed to air at Christmas but it underwent a 12 day reshooting in order to replace Ed Westwick with Christian Cooke in 35 scenes in which he appears in the three part mini series. The reshooting wasn't easy as they had to book the ensemble cast again and shoot in winter instead of summer while also booking all the locations and costumes

Bill Nighy leads the cast as the victim's widower!

again too. They have also changed the ending from the one in Christie's novel for which they've got a special permission from Agatha Christie's estate.

DEATH IN FAMILY & MURDERER IS STILL AMONG THEM 
Wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll (Anna Chancellor) is murdered at her family estate Sunny Point. Her adopted son Jack Argyll (Anthony

Rachel's children and Alice Eve as their future stepmother

Boyle), a young delinquent, is arrested for her murder. He vehemently protests his innocence. Eighteen months later, Dr Arthur Calgary (Luke

Christian Cooke was cast to replace Ed Westwick in 32 scenes

Treadaway), a mysterious scientist, walks onto the velvety lawns of Sunny Point claiming to have just returned from an expedition to the Arctic. Even

Poldark's Eleanor Tomlinson plays one of Rachel's daughters

more extraordinary is his claim to hold the alibi that can prove Jack�s innocence. But Jack died in prison before the case could come to trial, and the Argyll family is reluctant to dig up the secrets of the past. Rachel�s widower

Matthew Goode is secretly attracted to his wife's sister in the series

Leo (Bill Nighy) is about to remarry his secretary Gwenda (Alice Eve) and none of Rachel�s other adopted children Mary (Eleanor Tomlinson), Mickey (Christian Cooke), Tina (Crystal Clarke) or Hester (Ella

Luke Treadaway returns from Arctic and brings mystery with him

Purnell), nor long standing housekeeper Kirsten (Morven Christie), is willing to reopen that most horrendous chapter of their lives. However, the shattering implications of Calgary�s story are too big to avoid; if he is telling

Alice Eve plays Bill Nighy's secretary and future wife

the truth then the wrong person was arrested for Rachel�s murder. And if Jack is innocent, then it must have been somebody else at Sunny Point. Somebody still out there�Matthew Goode plays Mary's disabled husband Philip.