Escape from the vicarage as Agatha Christie brand gets TV makeover

David Walliams and Jessica Raine up the pace as writer’s estate takes charge of the scripts

Forget Poirot’s “little grey cells” and the gently clicking knitting needles of Miss Marple, the future of Agatha Christie on television is action-packed and scary, complete with fistfights, chases, international espionage and realistic violence.

The Christie estate has taken back control of TV rights and aims to create a new era of dynamic mysteries before copyright on one of the UK’s most potentially lucrative literary franchises runs out in 32 years.

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