Miss Marple
is back! Geraldine McEwan reprises her role as Agatha Christie’s beloved
spinster sleuth in four new adaptations of the MYSTERY! series called “great
fun” by USA Today and “not your mother’s Miss Marple” by the Associated
Press. Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, Series 2 premieres Sunday, June 4,
2006 at 9pm on PBS.
The new adaptations include
Sleeping Murder (June 4 and 11) with guest star Sophia Myles; By the Pricking
of My Thumbs (June 18 and 25) with Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi playing
fellow Christie supersleuths Tommy and Tuppence Beresford; The Moving Finger
(July 9 and 16), with Emilia Fox and James D’Arcy, and The Sittaford Mystery
(July 23) with Timothy Dalton (aka James Bond).
Visit MYSTERY!’s Agatha
Christie’s MISS MARPLE, Series 2 companion Web site for
• An interview with acclaimed
actress Geraldine McEwan
• Christie and more Christie
- Everything you want to know about the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie,
the third best-selling author of all time (after Shakespeare and the Bible!)
• A complete Marple filmography,
bibliography and Web links
• “Filling Miss Marple’s Shoes,”
a feature by executive producer Phil Clymer
• Mini-sites for each
episode which include:
• Episode descriptions: Spoiler
alert! These include a detailed plot of each upcoming show, including the
ending.
• Who’s Who in the surprisingly
homicidal village of St. Mary Mead and environs: A guide to Christie’s
complex web of characters.
• Cast and credits: The actor
playing the murderer looks familiar. Where have you seen him before?
The MYSTERY! Web site is produced
in association with WGBH Interactive, Boston, which produces Web sites
supporting WGBH national series such as NOVA, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW and ARTHUR.
The WGBH Educational Foundation is the single largest producer of primetime
television programs and Web sites seen nationally on PBS and PBS ONLINE.
PBS.org,
PBS's award-winning site on the World Wide Web, produces high-quality Web
programming as it pioneers the convergence of television and the Internet.
PBS.org features more than 150,000 pages of content as well as companion
Web sites for more than 500 PBS programs and specials, and is one of the
most popular "dot-org" Web sites in the world.
Press contacts
Olivia Wong, WGBH Boston, ,
olivia_wong(-at-)wgbh.org
Ellen Dockser, WGBH Boston,
, ellen_dockser(-at-)wgbh.org
.
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