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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)
Premieres 20th March
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)
Premieres 27th March
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.
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