Mad About Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby book series, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI John Barnaby, who works for Causton CID. Dudgeon's character is the younger cousin of former lead character DCI Tom Barnaby.
The stories are set in modern-day England and revolve around Tom Barnaby's efforts to solve numerous murders that take place in the idyllic picturesque but deadly villages of the fictional county of Midsomer.
Filming of Midsomer Murders began in Autumn 1996, with the first episode broadcast in the United Kingdom on March 23, 1997. The show has always attracted a large following. Many well-known stage and screen actors have appeared on the show.
Anthony Horowitz created the show and adapted the majority of the early episodes from the original works by Caroline Graham.
Midsomer is an English fictional county. The county town is Causton, a middle-sized town where Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby lives with his wife, and where the Criminal Investigation Department is located. Much of the popularity of the series arises from the incongruity of sudden violence in a picturesque and peaceful rural setting. Individual episodes focus on institutions, rituals, and customs popularly seen as being characteristic of rural English counties.
Many of the villages and small towns of the county have the word "Midsomer" in their name; this is inspired in part by the real county of Somerset, and specifically the town of Midsomer Norton, and becoming a naming convention within the show. When Mrs. Barnaby proposed they move out of Causton and suggested various villages, her husband countered with recollections of particularly grisly murders that occurred in each community. Likewise, when Sgt. Dan Scott asked if the body count was always so high in the county, Barnaby replied, "It has been remarked upon."
Humour is a main feature of the series, with many of the actors playing up their high-camp characters. There is often black comedy, such as a woman being murdered with a wheel of cheese, and many scenes are examples of "dramedy", which is comic drama or dramatic comedy.
British television began in the United Kingdom in 1936 as a public service free of advertising. The British Broadcasting Corporation is the world's oldest and largest broadcaster and is the country's principal public service broadcaster. The BBC is funded primarily by a television licence and from sales of its programming to overseas markets. It does not carry advertising. The licence fee is levied on all households that watch or record tv as it's being broadcast. The fee is determined by periodic negotiation between the government and the BBC.
Independent Television is the network of fifteen regional commercial television franchises, originally founded in 1955 to provide competition to the BBC. ITV was the country's first commercial television provider funded by advertisements and has been the most popular commercial channel through most of its existence. Through a series of mergers, takeovers, and relaxation of regulation, thirteen of these companies are now owned by ITV plc; the other two are owned by STV Group. ITV plc. The operator of all English, Welsh, Souther Scotland, and Channel Island franchises had branded the channel as ITV1 since 2001.
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The stories are set in modern-day England and revolve around Tom Barnaby's efforts to solve numerous murders that take place in the idyllic picturesque but deadly villages of the fictional county of Midsomer.
Filming of Midsomer Murders began in Autumn 1996, with the first episode broadcast in the United Kingdom on March 23, 1997. The show has always attracted a large following. Many well-known stage and screen actors have appeared on the show.
Anthony Horowitz created the show and adapted the majority of the early episodes from the original works by Caroline Graham.
Midsomer is an English fictional county. The county town is Causton, a middle-sized town where Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby lives with his wife, and where the Criminal Investigation Department is located. Much of the popularity of the series arises from the incongruity of sudden violence in a picturesque and peaceful rural setting. Individual episodes focus on institutions, rituals, and customs popularly seen as being characteristic of rural English counties.
Many of the villages and small towns of the county have the word "Midsomer" in their name; this is inspired in part by the real county of Somerset, and specifically the town of Midsomer Norton, and becoming a naming convention within the show. When Mrs. Barnaby proposed they move out of Causton and suggested various villages, her husband countered with recollections of particularly grisly murders that occurred in each community. Likewise, when Sgt. Dan Scott asked if the body count was always so high in the county, Barnaby replied, "It has been remarked upon."
Humour is a main feature of the series, with many of the actors playing up their high-camp characters. There is often black comedy, such as a woman being murdered with a wheel of cheese, and many scenes are examples of "dramedy", which is comic drama or dramatic comedy.
British television began in the United Kingdom in 1936 as a public service free of advertising. The British Broadcasting Corporation is the world's oldest and largest broadcaster and is the country's principal public service broadcaster. The BBC is funded primarily by a television licence and from sales of its programming to overseas markets. It does not carry advertising. The licence fee is levied on all households that watch or record tv as it's being broadcast. The fee is determined by periodic negotiation between the government and the BBC.
Independent Television is the network of fifteen regional commercial television franchises, originally founded in 1955 to provide competition to the BBC. ITV was the country's first commercial television provider funded by advertisements and has been the most popular commercial channel through most of its existence. Through a series of mergers, takeovers, and relaxation of regulation, thirteen of these companies are now owned by ITV plc; the other two are owned by STV Group. ITV plc. The operator of all English, Welsh, Souther Scotland, and Channel Island franchises had branded the channel as ITV1 since 2001.
Fawlty Towers
Cathy Come Home
Doctor Who
The Naked Civil Servant
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Blue Peter
Boys from the Blackstuff
Parkinson
Yes, Minister
Brideshead Revisited
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