I just about managed to endure Ben Miller leaving and having Kris Marshall joining certainly wasn't a plus and then we lost camille and fidel. Then they started hiding clues from us so that it wasn't possible to deduce the murder, but it turns out it is always the obvious person, so we didn't need the clues.
there is nobody I care about now.
but it could be worse, it could be father brown
LOL! Yes, Father Brown is really bad. I can't understand why so many people watch it. The stories are so simple, they can hardly be called murder *mysteries*.
shareather Brown is a painfully inept series. And as has been pointed out, the idea of an Englsh village with a mainly Catholic population is highly unlikely.
shareI miss Fidel. They never gave him enough to do but he was nice to look at. Camille was the heart of the show. She worked both with Miller and Marshall. The replacements are pale imitations.
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I, on the other hand, find the new Kris Marshall/Josephine Joubert episodes to be SUPERIOR to the earlier eps with Richard Poole. I always thought that Camille, in the early shows, was a stuck-up beeyotch. Florence is much nicer, much easier to take.
Here in the U.S., the show is on hiatus right now, and we are seeing reruns of the Richard Poole episodes. One of them was on tonight, and know what? I was right. The Poole eps aren't a patch on the Humphrey/Florence shows.
Cheers,
Dan
God Bless America!
I've just watched on British TV the first episode of the new series - the one with a volcano prominent in the background. Nearly everything else was flat - the guest characters/suspects, Humphrey, his girl-friend, the plot.
The only spark was Officer Myers' indiscretion about the Commissioner and how the latter reacted.
Perhaps DIP has reached, if not passed, its "Best by" date?
I've recorded the second episode of the new series but caught part of Humphrey's dénouement at the end as it was transmitted. Again I thought that the suspects looked a very dull lot, but in some way Florence has endeared herself to Humphrey, and I'm just a little bit curious how.
The trailer for the next episode featured Jason Hughes (Detective Sergeant Ben Jones in "Midsomer Murders") and hopefully he'll add a spark to the proceedings.
Camille is still there at the point we've watched through. But when she goes I won't be sad, I don't care much for her at all.
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Shooting has started on my latest movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5531336/
A small island and all those murders! Formidable, as Poirot would say!
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