Fri 9 Jul 2010
Steve:
Is there anyway you can enlist your army of mystery fans to help save the TV series Agatha Christie’s Poirot?
This month, series X of Poirot will air on PBS. It may be the last despite there being only 6 Christie stories to be filmed.
Below is an excerpt from www.culturevulture.com with more info and how we can help save the show.
I have also started a Facebook group page called “Save Agatha Christie’s Poirot.”
Thank you!
Brian R. Sheridan
In early 2010, it was speculated the Poirot series might end before the last six stories (out of 71) are filmed. David Suchet said, “I’m pragmatic and accept that things get cancelled. Of course, there are cutbacks in TV drama and if it is not to be, it is not to be. I will have to be a big boy and accept it.” He added, “Of course I would be very sad if it didn’t get recommissioned.”
Suchet also stated in April 2010 that if the series were to return, but on a lower budget scale, he would not want to continue making the last episodes if they would compromise the quality of the program.
So now is the time for fans to let ITV know that we would like ITV to produce the last of the Hercule Poirot stories by emailing ITV at
Or snail mail:
Viewer Services ITV Plc
Gas Street
Birmingham B1 2JT UK
July 9th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
What’s left to film?
The Big Four (this could be entertaining if done very much tongue in cheek, but it really should have been done back in the 1990s)
Dead Man’s Folly (okay book)
Elephants Can Remember (terrible book)
Curtain (absolutely should be done)
That’s four, what would the other two be?
July 9th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Curt
The complete unproduced Poirot are
The Big Four (1927)
Dead Man’s Folly (1956)
Elephants Can Remember (1972)
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (1975)
The 12 related short stories comprising
The Labours of Hercules (1947)
A play
Black Coffee (1930)
And a short story
The Lemesurier Inheritance (1923)
Which counting LABOURS and BLACK COFFEE makes six though I don’t see how they would make a single episode of LABOURS. Of course they could always being talking about injecting Poirot into two non series books as they did with several of the later Miss Marple’s like MURDER IS EASY and THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS.
July 9th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
You could get an hour episode out of each story. I’d be more excited about Labours than any of the remaining novels (except Curtain).
It seems a shame not to finish the novels, at least. Or even just Curtain.
July 9th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I’m wondering if they are planning to perhaps combine several of the stories from LABOURS into a single story that fit a ninety minute slot (actually its more like seventy-five minutes). I just don’t see them doing twelve more hour long episodes, though I’d love to see that.
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, THIRD GIRL, and MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA are the three to be shown on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! this season.