The ABC Murders

[Carlyrichards]

Anyone watching? I like Rupert Grint in this.

I do love Margaret Rutherford Schadenfreud - just not as Miss M! And I love your description of a utopia involving all-day b&w films

Jealous of Clawdy's Joan Hickson collection.

Do they ever show the JH reruns anywhere?

Godrest..have you seen the Freeview channel Talking Pictures TV? It shows mostly old b/w films all day.

@Ali1cedowntherabbithole yes they show them on alibi fairly regularly.

A lovely Mner once sent me her boxset of Joan Hickson. Absolutely the definitive Jane Marple

Why is there not a channel showing exclusively black and white British films? I’d never leave the house.

It’s been mentioned just but it stands repeating, Talking Pictures TV. It’s on free view.

It’s a very small channel run by a father and daughter. Not only do they show lots of lovely old black and white films and some colour tv series but they also show little bits they call glimpses. These are things like 1940s public information films or a news reel of a village carnival.
As I understand the Queen watches it a lot!

YY another fan of Talking Pictures here. Well worth checking the schedules each day and recording a few black and white gems.

As many of the others from the classic film appreciation thread on here will testify, some of us virtually live on Talking Pictures anyway. I know I do

Thank heavens for that. I've always found Friend Hasting a PITA.
I don't mind Hastings, he might not be the best character AC wrote but he serves the traditional purpose, every brilliant detective needs a sidekick to represent the reader like Holmes and Watson or Morse and Lewis.

Hastings' initial function is the introduction of Poirot to English upper class society (effectively his future client base) and more importantly to Inspector Japp. Without him none of what follows could happen.

Brilliant - it is on Freesat too. There is Genevieve tomorrow, and Hobson's Choice on Friday.

(Peyton Place - wasn't that some sort of a joke in popular culture?)

Talking Pictures is literally the only channel on my tv. We watch everything else via iPlayer, Netflix etc. If I put the tv onto broadcast it’s only Talking Pictures.

dogsdinner

No!

I'll have to trawl through the 50,000 bollox channels and find it! I love a good old B/W - watched Brief Encounter and the Bishop's Wife recently.

Lovely!

(And not a bare bum in sight!)

I've just looked up today's schedule online - it's not just films, there's old TV programmes, to!

"A Family at War" son on Wednesday! I LOVED that programme!

Can someone please take pity on me and explain how the killer knew Poirot?
I really enjoyed it but found it a bit confusing ( haven’t read the book or seen original )

Poirot was at his SILs birthday a few years before. I presumed they met then.

In this adaptation anyway. In the book they don’t know one another pre book

Sorry for the hijack OP but as Halsall mentioned above, and if people are interested/not already aware, the [[https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/films/3241472-Classic-films-appreciation-thread-come-and-join-us?pg=1&order= classic films thread]] is here for loads of Talking Pics/old films chat including Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple!

I'm also now listening to the ABC Murders on Audible - very good so far. Does include Hastings though!!

PrivateEggnog
Thanks for the tip!!

Thanks, PrivateEggnog, I should have picked up on that chance to big up our thread!

I'm always shoehorning it in to other threads Halsall

Oooh! Thank you for link to classic films thread Noggy!

I thoroughly enjoyed the 80% of "The Winslow Boy" that I saw this afternoon.

Also toffees.

I’m going to pop over now and lurk for a bit on the Classic Film thread. Thanks for the link!

DH & I watched this over 2 nights and both loved it.

But I haven't read an AC novel since Murder on the Orient Express when I was 12 & never watched the other TV series.

Also love John Malkovich and like dark dramas.

I can see how it might have been a bit much for the purists however. But I think it's good to take risks with TV dramas and in this case, for me, it paid off.