Poirot:Hallowe'en Party

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Yes i agree with this, though it was mainly the ending i objected to.

Some of the longer books have been adapted very well though, the best example for me would be Five Little Pigs, which was really superb, even in the deviations from the book, because they maintained the feel of the book very well even then.
 
How funny .. I was thinking about this book the other day (as you do), probably because it's Halloween next week. This is the first Agatha Christie I ever read, as a teenager, and I read almost all the others soon after, as a guilty pleasure whilst reading proper literature for school ...
I've forgotten most of the plots now, so can enjoy them more or less fresh, but I remember Poirot's character and David Suchet is perfect in the role, even better than the Christie creation, which is so rare. I doubt whether he'd have quite such a modernist Art Deco flat, but it looks gorgeous, uses a lovely pallet (cream tones) so that's a mere quibble.

I agree it wasn't one of her best - trying to be a bit modern and actually using the word "sexy-looking" - but these are always a cozy pleasure, like a box of chocolates.

It's the latest Marples I have more of an issue with.
 
Wednesday 27th October at 8pm.

I would have thought Sunday October 31st would have been ideal considering the title! (But that's X Factor results night :yawn:)
 
so its in the "MiRABomer Murders" slot, ah well pleased that its on at all, is this the one that has been shown in every other country except for ours?
 
Really looking forward to this.

Even if they do throw in some lesbians. ITV should comission a series entitled 1930s Lesbians to get it out of their system.
 
They can rewrite Curtain any way they want! They've faffed around with so many of them lately. Appointment With Death was monstrous. Third Girl managed to cut out the few decent bits of what was a very weak book.

The Hastings/Japp/Miss Lemon days are long gone, and Curtain draws on some of that. I don't imagine Hastings will be back, even though he is crucial to the story sand his daughter features heavily.

Curtain is one of Agatha's most genius works. Some of her books (Roger Ackroyd, And Then There Were None, and others) are so ingenious, so clever, so intricate ... she takes the breath away.

Roger Ackroyd was always going to be tricky to do, but ITV did make a mess of it. It's a real low point for the series, before it got relaunched in a much more dour direction. I think Selina Cadell is rather good as Miss Shepherd, but a totally different Miss Shepherd from that in the book ...




Aint that the truth?!

I rarely watch them, after being dumbfounded by The Body In The Library. Where did those lesbians come from?!

Agatha can be heard, spinning in her grave, throughout.

I had a crack at Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, recently, as I read the book and thought it was a bit mad. I wondered how they'd Marple-ise it. It was amongst the most flappin dreadful things I have ever seen in my entire life.

Bring back Joan Hickson, that's what I say ... :rolleyes:
 
I expected it to be on Sun 31 Oct, which is Hallowe'en night after all, but the last episode of Downton Abbey is on, and the rest of the night is clogged up with X Factor toss.

This one, The Clocks and Murder On the Orient Express have been in the can for a while, and have been on TV elsewhere in the world. The Clocks is a right weird book. The MOTOE adaptation has got some criticism on various other forums (fora?).

What a crying shame they're not premiereing this on a Sunday! Sunday Night is Agatha Night! Bloody weird if you ask me.

It's written by Mark Gatiss, and his Cat Among The Pigeons was excellent. very true to the book. Hallowe'en Party is a very clever novel (I solved it).
 
I don't think it was bad, but I do feel that the adaptations continue to lose their charm a little bit at a time. Still, considering I don't like the book, this wasn't a bad adaptation, I think Gatiss made the best of a bad job in terms of adapting the screenplay, and managed to create a creepy atmosphere at times.. Should have been on sunday though.
 
Just a heaRAB up to say that STV are not showing this on Wednesday night.So if you have got Sky you will need to watch this on the ITV London channel.I'm not too sure if Virgin have this channel.
 
This has certainly been shown elsewhere already. Murder On The Orient Express has also already been shown in the States but I would imagine that ITV are saving that one up for the evening of Christmas Day
 
Whats wrong with Wednesday 8-10pm? Ir worked fine for Morse for many a year. Based on the griping here you'd think they were showing it as 3am on a Tuesday morning.

And whats wrong with holding a Halloweeen flavoured episode to Halloween week?
 
Newsflash there were lesbians around in Christies day, and who's to say they weren't lesbains in her mind eye, but the times didn't allow for that to be written explicitly? Just a thought.

Anyhoo, I've found many of the ITV adaptations quite entertaining and look forward to Wednesday.
 
Poirot has ALWAYS been Sunday Night Telly. Or Bank Holiday telly. Shuffling it away on a Wednesday night is wrong! Especially because it should be on Hallowe'en Sunday. Sunday night is Agatha Night. Poirot used to be "event telly", but not anymore it seems.
 
The only problem I can see is that it'd be competing with the Apprentice from 9PM. Which is a shame which means I'll have to record the last hour.

I think Halloween Party was my least favourite Poirot book though :(
 
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