Midsomer Murders

Talking heads included Nettles, Jane Wymark (Joyce Barnaby) and Nettles' successor Neil Dudgeon (DCI John Barnaby) plus guest stars such as Tamzin Outhwaite, ...

Bodies show up in vats of beer, barrels of fishing bait and tumble dryers. As Nettles summed up: “Midsomer Murders is like Agatha Christie on speed.” Now nearing 400 deaths, this is a show in which the tiniest of wrongs prompt people to calmly impale their neighbour on a pitchfork. As well as behind the scenes footage of the new series and following a coach tour taking ardent fans to the idyllic locations where characters met their grisly ends (which sounds like a possible storyline in itself), the documentary featured anecdote-packed interviews.

The stars of the ITV drama have changed a fair bit over the last 25 years... · DCI Tom Barnaby – John Nettles · DCI John Barnaby – Neil Dudgeon · DS Jamie Winter – ...

Jane shares Poldark in common with her former co-star, however Jane appeared in the original series aired in 1977. Actor Gwilym Lee took on the role of DS Charlie Nelson in the show for three years from 2013 to 2016. Annette Badland had a role in the drama's latest series, which aired in January of this year, as Fleur Perkins, a witty pathologist. Jason Hughes appeared in the ITV drama as DS Benjamin Jones. He starred opposite the original on-screen detective John Hughes for series nine to thirteen before John's departure. Neil Dudgeon took over from John Nettles after his departure in 2011 and has been the face of the show since. Nick plays Jamie, John's right-hand Detective Sergeant. The star made his first appearance on the show in The Village that Rose from the Dead in season 19.

The ITV detective drama – which stars Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby, the actor having taken over from previous star John Nettles – has reached its 22nd ...

Midsomer Murders: 25 Years Of Mayhem is on ITV on Sunday night at 7pm, while Midsomer Murders is on at 8pm. On average, there are around five deaths in every episode of Midsomer Murders – but some are bloodier than others. In fact, it’s not escaped the notice of the viewers that Midsomer has a pretty high homicide rate for somewhere so small and picturesque.

As Midsomer Murders celebrates its 25th anniversary, Nick Hendrix chats about working with real-life wife Jessica Ellerby on the latest episode.

You pass the point of just being a show that's been on for a while in a 'yeah, whatever' kind of way, and when you're on for so long, you get into this new realm of 'wow, this is actually quite special' — you feel like you're part of the fabric of British entertainment on every level. Steven Perkins is a Staff Writer for TV & Satellite Week, TV Times, What's On TV and whattowatch.com (opens in new tab), who has been writing about TV professionally since 2008. Although, because the show has run for so long, five series in you're still the new boy — in any other show, you'd be a seasoned veteran! It was great — and what was useful was that they had a bad break-up and it's a sort of sour, negative relationship in that sense, which is slightly easier to play on set with a real-life partner!" There aren't loads of shows in the canon of British TV that run for this length of time. We were in a lot together, because her character was connected to mine, but I wanted her to be able to be on set and film without me there, so it was a job for her rather than like, 'oh, and there's Nick'. There were scenes where I was off, sitting at home, and she was on set with all the crew, essentially with my friends and colleagues, and I wasn't there!"

Midsomer Murders is back on ITV tonight with a brand new episode for 2022 - who's on the cast of The Scarecrow Murders? Midsomer Murders follows DCI John.

Could the desire to retain their title lead someone to employ the dirtiest tactics of all?" Something of a local celebrity, Reverend Oscar is facing a challenge to his position within the community. A teaser of the new episode shares: "Little Upton is a picturesque village known for hosting the annual Midsomer Scarecrow Festival, a key event in the social calendar, each year residents compete to build the best scarecrow and display their designs around the village.

MIDSOMER MURDERS is having a special evening on ITV to mark its 25th anniversary but who guest stars in The Scarecrow Murders?

Express.co.uk has everything there is to know about the guest stars of The Scarecrow Murders. Midsomer Murders is one of the UK's longest-running TV dramas and it shows no signs of slowing down just yet. Who is in the cast of Midsomer Murders' The Scarecrow Murders? The one-off special is going to welcome back some of the show's previous stars to discuss the early days of Midsomer Murders and its success. Rachel Taylor is in charge of the scarecrow festival and the interim churchwarden. MIDSOMER MURDERS is having a special evening on ITV to mark its 25th anniversary but who guest stars in The Scarecrow Murders?

Performances by Henry Cavill, Olivia Colman and Orlando Bloom in Midsomer Murders were remembered by their fellow actors in a look at the show's 25-year ...

She put him forward for the role and the rest, as they say, was history. I just thought' I hope he doesn't get eaten up and spat out by this business'." "I used to do mentoring at the Guild Hall School and one of my mentees was Orlando Bloom and, the minute I met him, I knew he was going to be a movie star."

Midsomer Murders — 25 Years of Mayhem Midsomer Murders Remember about 15 years ago when Rory McGrath caused bosoms to be swaddled ...

There was also a hypocritical vicar who won £15 million on the lottery and spent it on himself and his family while preaching to others and asking them to raise money for the church roof. What started as the usual jolly business of people being killed in fiendishly original ways — in this case stuffed like Worzel Gummidges during the annual Scarecrow Festival — morphed into a polemic against the life-wrecking gambling industry tempting addicts with free bets and the moral bankruptcy of “dark PR”. “It takes three or four murders until Barnaby finds out whodunnit; he’s the most useless copper in the world,” he said, laughing, possibly upsetting fans who don’t like to see him disrespected.