Midsomer Murders (Series 21)

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Midsomer Murders is back with a new array of whodunits set in bizarre worlds populated by interestingly eccentric characters, where the plots are interwoven with red herrings.

In this series, DCI Barnaby explores the world of robotics and sashays through the competitive world of ballroom dance.

He comes up against the superstitious men and women of the professional angling community and hopes to avoid a sticky end when confronted by fanatical beekeepers.

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Twenty three year old chemistry graduate Emma Hedges has got a new job at The Scottish Institute of Forensic Science and Anatomy. Excited, and keen to boost her knowledge, she joins an online forensic science course. But the case study it features a woman’s remains discovered on Dundee Law is eerily familiar. She knows this story. It’s her story. Eighteen years ago, that’s how her mother’s body was found.

The strange coincidence is the push she needs: it’s time to finally uncover the truth about what happened to her mum. With help from her new bosses two eminent forensic scientists and a committed detective, Emma follows the trail of evidence from all those years ago. It leads her to new love and old friends, before plunging her into a live police investigation.

This is a world of danger and deceit. Will Emma have the nerve to follow the evidence no matter where it takes her?

Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (Series 3)

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Combining corpses, comedy and cracking mysteries, this quirky crime drama has won the hearts of over 200 countries. Now that Lu has passed her private investigator exams and Frank’s tidied himself up a bit, there’s no stopping them.

But murder, kidnap, blackmail and infidelity still abound in the pretty tourist town of Stratford upon Avon. An ageing heavy metal star with a pact with the devil.

A Shakespeare museum full of deadly secrets. A King Lear story set in a carpet warehouse. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard, where low life criminals get caught up in deliciously high drama.

Call The Midwife (Series 9)

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January 1965. As the nation mourns the death of Winston Churchill, tower blocks multiply, and a new East End rises from the ashes of the old. Society becomes more prosperous, but more complex. The Nonnatus House team of medics and midwives face unexpected challenges as the population shifts, rules change, and old diseases come back to haunt them.

Alongside the joy and optimism of birth, they must cope with cases including diphtheria, drug abuse, cancer, tuberculosis, and fistula. As well as getting to grips with the real world events unfolding around them from serious political developments to the latest music, movies and fashion.

Meanwhile, their own experiences are fuelled by love, loss, and doubt. And the very future of Nonnatus House comes under threat.

Grantchester (Series 4)

Premieres 3rd April

For the Vicar of Grantchester, the beautiful small village just outside Cambridge, life is always pretty quiet. Or at least, it was right up until the moment that murder came his way.

Season four sees Sidney Chambers (James Norton) departing for pastures new, and soon there is a new Vicar of Grantchester, firebrand Will Davenport (Tom Brittney, Outlander, Call the Midwife).

Idealistic and energetic, Will is a man of the people but as he makes the parish his own he quickly finds himself drawn to Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green, Strike Back), and his world of murderous plots, crimes of passion, and unexpected tragedies.

Grantchester is a stylish period crime series deeply rooted in the very real world of Britain in the 1950s.

Agatha Raisin (Series 3)

Premieres 10th April

A quiet village life can be murder our favourite amateur detective is back!

Starring Emmy ® nominated actress Ashley Jensen (Catastrophe, Extras, Ugly Betty) Agatha Raisin is based on MC Beaton’s bestselling novels.

Having consciously coupled at the end of series two, Agatha Raisin is optimistic that her future with James Lacey is secure and their troubles are behind them.

Newly qualified as a Private Detective and with her new investigations agency all set up and raring to go, things have never been better for the Cotswolds’ premier PI, but plans have a funny way of going awry in Agatha land...

Gold Digger

Premieres Friday, 17th April

Starring Primetime Emmy ® winner Julia Ormond making her British television debut in a lead role and Ben Barnes (West World), Gold Digger is a contemporary, character driven relationship thriller filled with unexpected twists and turns.

The story focuses on a wealthy woman who falls in love with a much younger man and the impact this has on her already damaged family. Mother first, wife second, woman last 60 year old Julia (Ormond) has spent her whole life putting the needs of others before her own.

Then she meets Benjamin (Barnes), a 30 something copywriter with a shrouded history. As the drama unfolds, the consequences of their relationship are explored, as devastating secrets from the past tear the family’s fragile bonds further apart.

Has Julia finally found the happiness she’s always deserved? Or is the complex and enigmatic Benjamin really the gold digger her family think he is?