LYNLEY(2025) mon 830pm bbc 1 - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Remade for 2025

It's time to bookmark another crime drama for your watchlists as it's now been confirmed just when Lynley (https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/how-to-watch-lynley/) will be landing on BBC One

Described as a "contemporary update" of the original novels by Elizabeth George, the new four-part series (https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/lynley-adaptation-bbc-first-images-newsupdate/) will premiere on BBC One on Monday 5th January at 8:30pm.

The drama, which premiered on BritBox in North America earlier this year,

Leo Suter (Sanditon) and Sofia Barclay (Ted Lasso) lead the series as unconventional detective duo DI Tommy Lynley and DS Barbara Havers, with the rest of the cast including Daniel Mays (Magpie Murders) as DCI Brian Nies, "the astute, suspicious Senior Detective at Three Counties Major Incident Team, whose aversion to Lynley is partly born of his own insecurities about class and partly because he knows he’s no longer the smartest person in the room".

Niamh Walsh (The English Game) stars as Helen Clyde, "an estate agent and Lynley’s former Oxford classmate whose romance with Lynley is sparked when their paths fatefully cross on a case".

The synopsis for Lynley reads: "Tommy Lynley is a brilliant police detective but an outsider in the force – simply by virtue of his aristocratic upbringing.

He is paired with Barbara Havers, a sergeant with a maverick attitude and a working-class background.

"With seemingly nothing in common and against all odds, the mismatched duo of Lynley and Havers become a formidable team, bonded by their desire to see justice done."

It's obviously not the first time that the books have been adapted for the TV, with The Inspector Lynley Mysteries originally airing on the BBC from 2001 to 2008.

I am now not sure which woman "Helen" is

I think it must be Lesley Vickerage as Helen.

I'm not up to there yet on my re watch!

I think she might look similar to how Amanda Ryan did in the pilot when she played his best friend's wife.

So the woman he has fancied for ages who married his best friend is not Helen? Who is Helen with the multiple sprogs then?

The woman he fancied & was also engaged to was Deborah who married his best friend.

Helen didn't have kids before they met.

Maybe it was just someone connected to the case then?

Can't remember if he was a bit of a womaniser!

Does the updated new series follow the same storyline ?

if so then please no talk of old episodes.

as don’t want spoilers

Thanks 😘

Sorry Blondes, got carried away!

Is Helen the woman he fancied who got involved with a suspect? If so it seems odd that in the episode a week later she has several children and Havers is suggesting a romantic liaison with her

I've only seen the first & that didn't.

Quite liked it.

Especially the second episode, still only two episodes in.

I found the acting a bit stilted.

Not the power that Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small had in the original series.

The dialogue feels old, so they haven't exactly updated it.

But nice shots from overhead. New setting Norfolk.

I watched 2 episodes of the new series before watching series 1 and pilot of the old series and so far no overlap in plot

Thanks

so no Helen :girlfriend /kids

I am completely confused as to who Helen is if she isn't the woman he fancied who married his best friend. Later on in series 1 of old series she doesn't seem to have kids so I maybe confused her with another actress with short dark hair who had kids in the previous episode of old series 1. I don't think it's relevant to the new series though. The posh bloke fancies women who aren't that bothered about him is as spoilery as it gets.

In the original series Helen. Was he estranged wife, i thought.

That is how she is presented initially in the books and how she appears to Lynley. Over time he gets to know her better and a more complex character is revealed. Not sure that type of gradual reveal of a character really works in this format.

I thought they were estranged for a while but I'm deeply confused and just smiling about it now.

I am not too confused to also think that she lost a baby, though. I agree on that.

I have realized this thread is TV time only.

So, I am stopping the new series and I am watching the original series to see how it compares!

I do love Sharon Small.

I'll come back when they screen episode 2.

In the original series Helen started as his friend, she worked for the police profiling service.

Lyndley was heart-broken as his former fiancee, Deborah, was marrying his best friend in the pilot.

Helen became his wife, I think!

I'm watching it all again!

If the new series continues & follows the books/old series a lot of these posts will be spoilers.

Someone should start a new thread about the original/classic series.
Maybe a rewatch is in order.

I watched new Bergerac then rewatched some of original. It’s quite fun.

@Yourmywifenow

OK, here it is. I do hop someone will join me.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5474035-the-inspector-lynley-mysteries-from-2001-anyone-want-to-re-watch-on-bbc-iplayer

@Yourmywifenow

"I watched new Bergerac then rewatched some of original. It’s quite fun."

Yes, I'd like to do this too. I have been to Jersey twice and loved it.

Disappointing

By chance I recently rewatched all the old episodes and these aren’t a patch on them and the whole thing seemed very cheap - more midsummer murders but without the drama.

The rocky island off Norfolk was very difficult to accept! Linley is very pretty but not posh enough and very one-dimensional. Havers was dreadful - far too lustres hair, very odd variable generic ‘poor’ person accent and very unconvincing!

I did struggle with the concept of a rocky island off any part of E Anglia.

AFAIK, The Wash is all mud with rivers that look like canals, there are marshy sandy cliffs and marshy bits, then shingle to Cromer, sand dunes down to Gt Yarmouth, a bit of sand until the shingle that makes up the beginning of Orford Ness (where there is a shingle island that is a bird reserve, then it is all big shipping estuaries, and mud and shingle into Essex where there are a couple of very big very non rocky islands.

I am uncertain as to which counties the 'Three Counties' police force is covering.