| Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie | |
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| Also known as | The Little Murders of Agatha Christie; Agatha Christie's Criminal Games |
| Genre | Comédie policière (comedic police crime drama) |
| Created by | Anne Giafferi Murielle Magellan |
| Based on | Agatha Christie's detective fiction |
| Starring | Series One: Antoine Duléry Marius Colucci Series Two: Samuel Labarthe Blandine Bellavoir Élodie Frenck |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original language | French |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 11 | 27 |
| Production | |
| Production location | France |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Production company | Escazai Films |
| Original release | |
| Network | France 2 |
| Release | 9 January 2009 – present[1] |
| Related | |
| Petits Meurtres en Famille 2006 (4-part mini-series) | |
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Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie is a French comédie policière (comedic police crime drama) television programme consisting of two series based loosely on Agatha Christie's works of detective fiction, first broadcast on France 2 on 9 January 2009.[2] In English-speaking countries, Series One is titled "The Little Murders of Agatha Christie" and Series Two is titled "Agatha Christie's Criminal Games". Series One takes place in the 1930s with Commissaire (approximately DCI) Larosière (Antoine Duléry) and Inspecteur Lampion (Marius Colucci). Series Two is set in the mid-1950s through early 1960s with Commissaire Swan Laurence (Samuel Labarthe), journalist Alice Avril (Blandine Bellavoir), and Laurence's secretary, Marlène Leroy (Élodie Frenck). Series One streams with English subtitles in the United States on Acorn TV and MHz Choice, Series Two streams with English subtitles in the United States on MHz Choice and in Australia on SBS.[3][4] The thirty-eight episodes to the end of Series Two include adaptations of thirty-six of Christie's works.
A third series, with a new cast and set in 1970s France, was announced in 2019.[1] Although the title bearing Christie's name will remain, most of the planned episodes will be original stories "in the spirit of Christie's works" because the producer felt that the remaining books would be "too difficult to adapt", or because of rights issues in some cases.[5]
- ^ a b Telestar.fr (28 October 2019). "EXCLU TELESTAR. Les Petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie ce n'est... - Télé Star". www.telestar.fr (in French). Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie". The Home of Agatha Christie. 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "Agatha Christie's Criminal Games". MHz Choice. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "Agatha Christie's Criminal Games". SBS On Demand. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "Interview Sophie Revil". lpmac. Retrieved 12 October 2020.