UK TV Ratings: BBC’s Latest Agatha Christie Adaptation Neck-And-Neck With ITV’s ‘Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?’ From Easter Weekend
deadline.comThe BBC‘s latest Agatha Christie adaptation concluded last night neck-and-neck in the ratings with ITV‘s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
from over the Easter Weekend. Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy, starring Industry’s David Jonsson as an amateur sleuth working with Rings of Power star Morfydd Clark, was watched by 2.8M viewers last night, losing 800,000 from Wednesday’s opener.
Both episodes launched on BBC iPlayer on Wednesday morning so had been available for some time prior to linear launch. One of the flagship shows of the BBC Christmas schedule, Murder is Easy was the sixth Christie adaptation over the past decade after a landmark deal with Agatha Christie Productions Limited, and the first not to be penned by Sarah Phelps, with Siân Ejiwunmi-Le Berre taking on writing duties.
Produced by Mammoth Screen, Murder is Easy followed Luke Fitzwilliam (Jonsson), a Nigerian attaché on his way to Whitehall when he meets the mysterious Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton) on a train and is led to a series of deaths in the small village of Wynchwood-Under-Ashe.
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