Marple II
Didn't watch the 4.50 From Paddington on Boxing Day, but really meant to mention that the week before's The Murder at the Vicarage had us in fits. We couldn't actually watch beyond the second ad break or so, because every time Janet McTeer came on screen we were so distracted by the work she's had done - huge lips and big staring eyes, all made the more obvious by the 1950s make up.
Really, seriously, what a very bad idea that was.
This coming Sunday is the last of the Agatha Christie: Marple programmes, and I do kind of look forward to it. A Murder Is Announced has always been my favourite Miss Marple. It's so fantastically over-blown: three murders, one attempted muder, and by the end of it no fewer than three separate residents of a small English village are revealed to be imposters. Happy times.