{"id":734442,"date":"2025-11-06T14:50:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?p=734442"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:50:45","slug":"on-the-set-of-the-first-agatha-christie-show-where-mysteries-are-solved-with-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/entertainment\/on-the-set-of-the-first-agatha-christie-show-where-mysteries-are-solved-with-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"On the set of the first Agatha Christie show where mysteries are solved with the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By HILARY FOX
Updated 1:49 PM PST, November 6, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"For
For the first time, the work of the queen of crime has been modernized for an English-speaking TV audience in \u201cAgatha Christie\u2019s Tommy & Tuppence,\u201d which is now shooting in the U.K.. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt\/Invision\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

LONDON (AP) \u2014 The scene: Outside a stately English home, a man and a woman attempt to solve a mystery. What\u2019s unusual about this picture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re using the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a departure from what could be the logline for many a cozy English mystery before it, \u201cAgatha Christie\u2019s Tommy & Tuppence\u201d marks the first time Agatha Christie\u2019s work has been modernized for an English-speaking TV audience. In this six-part drama premiering next year, there are phones, social media and TikTok alongside the usual murky secrets, red herrings and nefarious crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking in late October on the set of the BritBox contemporary series shooting in the U.K., writer and executive producer Phoebe Eclair-Powell says the makers were thrilled to get permission from Christie\u2019s estate and have been careful not to \u201csimplify\u201d solving classic puzzles, like a locked room mystery, with new tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have used it, but carefully, sparingly, and when we think actually that it\u2019s enhanced the original story that it\u2019s adapted from,\u201d explains Eclair-Powell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says that it\u2019s been a \u201ctricky\u201d part of the process, but one they hope Christie herself would approve of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Japan, Korea, India and Sweden, there have already been Christie characters living in the modern age, but this is the first contemporary adaptation in the author\u2019s native language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Antonia
Antonia Thomas, second right, and and Josh Dylan, right appear during the filming of the Agatha Christie series \u201cTommy & Tuppence\u201d in Beaconsfield, England on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt\/Invision\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPhoebe came to us with a brilliant take on the stories which put them in the modern day and because of the energy & vitality of these characters it felt completely natural to say yes!\u201d Christie\u2019s great-grandson James Prichard, who manages the literary rights to her estate, wrote in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press joined stars Antonia Thomas (\u201cThe Good Doctor\u201d) and Josh Dylan (\u201cThe Buccaneers\u201d) in the library of a 17th century mansion. Thomas is delighted to appear in this modern mystery program, her first as a title character and says fans will enjoy the interpretation because, while it\u2019s \u201cgrounded and modern,\u201d she and Dylan are still \u201ccapering in a classic Agatha Christie way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also hopes that it\u2019ll attract new viewers who would normally be put off by the period setting of a more traditional Christie crime drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dylan describes the modernization as having a \u201clooseness\u201d and \u201cfreshness\u201d that makes the miniseries feel \u201cdifferent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Antonia
Antonia Thomas, left, and Josh Dylan appear on the set of the Agatha Christie series \u201cTommy & Tuppence\u201d in Beaconsfield, England on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt\/Invision\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Readers of the \u201cQueen of Crime\u201d will recognize Tommy and Tuppence as featuring in short stories and four novels spanning from 1922 to 1973 \u2014 their stories were favorites of the author and aged alongside Christie in each appearance, according to her estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this version, Tommy is a crime writer and Tuppence struggles as an actor, so both are amateur sleuths and a will-they-won\u2019t-they vibe permeates their relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also featuring Imelda Staunton as Tommy\u2019s Aunt Ada, production on \u201cAgatha Christie\u2019s Tommy & Tuppence\u201d continues throughout November and the show is expected to air on BritBox in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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