Jonathan Creek

[Emmie]

OMG how scarey was it ahhh, i was behind a pillow 80% of the time haha, Sheridan was great! x

[Abbie]

I only watched half it and was scared!

[DaVeyWaVey]

I thought it was an enjoyable two hours, but definetly not up there with the classic Jonathan Creek episodes that David Renwick had written in the past - I am thinking of episodes like Gallows Gate, Mother Redcap, Black Canary, but it has been 4 years since the last one was shown, so I will be leniant.

I thought the resolution for the disappearances in the attic room was fantastic. I really wasn't expecting the bath to be involved, but it was genius. It may have been implausible, but that's what I love about Jonathan Creek - it's an entertaining drama, a 'how dunnit' opposed to a 'whodunnit' and I thought the bath being rigged was a pure genius resolution that I didn't see coming at all. The newspaper editor being involved was quite clever too as we were aware of her presence, but she wasn't overly shown, so we knew she was there, but we didn't consider her important enough to be a suspect. I felt the ending to the mystery with her saving the picture was a bit random and wasn't needed, and I found some of the acting throughout, to be very wooden. It was only Alan Davies and Sheridan Smith that impressed me most. None of the suspects or other characters weren't particularly that special to me.

However, I felt the porn subplot was poor and the comedy wasn't up to the brilliant standard we have seen in past episodes. Sheridan was good as Joey and I liked her and Jonathan together. I prefer Joey's character to Carla's character most definetly, but the presence of Maddy Magellan left a hole in the episode. If she starred in it, the comedy would have been better in my opinion.

Overall, I thought it was an average episode. An enjoyable two hours, but not the best mystery that David Renwick has written. I do hope Jonathan Creek comes back for a series though, as it's one of the best shows around. If it is brought back, I hope Renwick has some better ideas he can develop though.

I also thought the 'scary music' was cringeworthy in the first hour or so. It was like something from a cheap horror film. I'm glad the music stopped eventually.

[Kirsty :]]

I caught the last half hour or so I think. The bit with the ladder. Was very good buyt I need to watch it from the beginnning, luckily my Nan recorded it so I'm going to watch it with her tomorrow

The bath part creeped me right out!

[DaVeyWaVey]

According to Alan Davies' Twitter, a new episode of Jonathan Creek will be written for next Easter! YES!!

[tammyy2j]

A new 90 minute special "The Judas Tree", filmed in Summer 2009 will be shown on the 4th of April 2010.

[tammyy2j]

Joanna Lumley and Rik Mayall are among the stars who will be taking guest roles when Jonathan Creek returns to TV.

The show, starring Alan Davies in the title role, is coming back to BBC1 for a 90-minute special at Easter.

Also making an appearance will be Nigel Planer, and actress Sarah Alexander, known for roles in Me And Mrs Jones and Coupling.

Davies, a regular panellist on Stephen Fry's QI, will reprise his role as the magic trick-designer and part-time sleuth for an episode called The Clue Of The Savant's Thumb.

He will be joined by Sheridan Smith, who has appeared in the show before as Joey Ross.

Jonathan and fellow investigator Joey are drawn into a case involving a secret society, some apparently supernatural events at a girls' boarding school and the disappearance of a body.

Davies said of the return: "It's nearly 17 years since I first auditioned for the part. The duffle coat is always on stand-by, even if the periods of duffle-hibernation are quite long these days."

[DaVeyWaVey]

I'm looking forward to this episode, especially as Rik Mayall is reprising his role. He was great in Black Canary.

[Perdita]

Confirmed for BBC One on 28 February at 9.00pm to 10.00pm


In 'The Letters Of Septimus Noone', when a classic locked room novel is turned into a West End musical, one of its stars falls victim to a real-life 'impossible crime'.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room, based on a 19th-century story by Gaston Leroux, is currently thrilling London theatre audiences with its enticing blend of music, romance and sizzling Gothic melodrama.

But events take a sinister turn one night when the show's glamorous singing sensation Juno Pirelli is found horribly stabbed inside a locked dressing room, from which no assailant could possibly have escaped.

No weapon or any other evidence of an intruder can be found, nor any rational explanation for the victim's wounds.

As the actress's life hangs in the balance, her producer and colleagues remain baffled. And attention once again turns to the lateral-thinking Jonathan Creek for a solution to the whole grisly puzzle.

But can Creek - now a happily married man - even be persuaded to embark upon the investigation? As he and his wife Polly struggle to come to terms with a sudden personal tragedy, a series of dark and disturbing family secrets are about to emerge that will throw the couple's whole world into turmoil...

[Perdita]

2/3


In The Sinner and the Sandman, a retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career.
As Creek and Polly strive to settle into rural life, they find their apparently serene country village is riddled with all manner of strange and disturbing undercurrents...

Trouble is already brewing in the nearby community centre - recently reopened after a major face-lift - where a sordid sex scandal is about to break, casting a pall of gloom over the celebrations.

And at the vicarage, the arrival of a new baby is overshadowed by tales of a “weird hump-backed beast”, that has been seen prowling in the garden by night and foraging through the rubbish bags for foodstuffs.

Even the Creek residence is struck by misfortune, as the prospect of a plague of deadly Japanese Knotweed threatens to trigger wide-scale panic throughout the village. And after a whole slew of other unfortunate events, there are fears that some strange parochial Apocalypse is about to dawn.

Jonathan Creek, meanwhile, finds himself paying a charitable call on the eccentric Mr Eric Ipswich - aka 'The Amazing Astrodamus' - an ancient and reclusive former psychic magician who will shortly bring the village to a standstill by pulling off the most baffling act of clairvoyance in history.

And what is behind the macabre recurring dream that continues to haunt Creek's wife Polly... in which the kindly children's nursery character The Sandman is transformed into a dark and chilling figure of evil?