Murder Is Easy (TV series)

Murder Is Easy is a British mystery thriller television serial, based on the 1939 Agatha Christie novel of the same name. It is adapted by Siân Ejiwunmi-Le Berre and directed by Meenu Gaur. It premiered on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on 27 December 2023.

Premise
Luke Fitzwilliam (Jonsson) is a Nigerian attaché on his way to Whitehall when he meets the mysterious Miss Pinkerton (Wilton) on a train. Pinkerton discusses with him that a series of deaths in the village of Wychwood-Under-Ashe are not accidental and there’s a killer on the loose. Later, Miss Pinkerton is also found dead, and Fitzwilliam steels himself to discover the murderer before they strike again.

Cast

 * David Jonsson as Luke Obiako Fitzwilliam
 * Morfydd Clark as Bridget Conway
 * Penelope Wilton as Miss Lavinia Pinkerton
 * Sinead Matthews as Miss Honoria Waynflete
 * Tom Riley as Lord Whitfield
 * Douglas Henshall as Major Horton
 * Mathew Baynton as Dr Thomas
 * Mark Bonnar as Reverend Arthur Humbleby
 * Nimra Bucha as Mrs Humbleby
 * Tamzin Outhwaite as Mrs Pierce
 * Jon Pointing as Rivers
 * Phoebe Licorish as Rose Humbleby
 * Joe Fagan as the Butler

Production
Produced by Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited, it was a co-commission between the BBC and BritBox International. The Agatha Christie novel of the same name is adapted by Siân Ejiwunmi-Le Berre and directed by Meenu Gaur. It was produced by Karen Kelly. Executive producers are Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, James Prichard for Agatha Christie Limited, James Gandhi and Damien Timmer for Mammoth Screen, Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC and Reemah Sakaan and Stephen Nye for BritBox International.

Filming took place in Scotland in the summer of 2023 on the two-part drama series. First-look images from the production were released in November 2023.

Broadcast
The show aired on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK on 27 December 2023 and will be broadcast on BritBox International in the US, Canada and South Africa.

Reception
Rebecca Nicholson in The Guardian awarded it three out of five stars, praising its promising reworkings but finding the second episode unfocused, and that it "both overexplains and underexplains what is going on". Nick Hilton in The Independent awarded it two out of five stars.