![]() ![]() I’m sure I’d like him just fine as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent if I ever watched such shows as he seems like a perfectly nice guy. ![]() I liked him well enough on Little Britain and have admired his high profile fundraising work for charities. Not that I have anything personally against Walliams, I assure you. Indeed, Walliams had been a minor guest star in one of those episodes, 2004’s “The Body in the Library”. Among the worst such recent offenders were early episodes of ITV’s Marple, then starring the late Geraldine McEwan, which played out more like a cartoon that invited us to laugh derisively at the story rather than appreciatively with it. ![]() ![]() My hackles had been principally raised by the casting of Little Britain star David Walliams in the lead role of Tommy Beresford which seemed to suggest that the new show would continue the approach of recent productions which have tended to lampoon Christie, the genre and the period. Seriously, I came into this BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime very much fearing the worst and almost didn’t bother watching at all, so sure was I that I would hate every aspect of it. Well that wasn’t as completely terrible as it might have been. Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime S1E1 “The Secret Adversary” (BBC One) ![]()
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