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2 January 2005 (USA)
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The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished to read an advert in the local newspaper that a murder...
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
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Geraldine McEwan is not Miss Marple according to Christie...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Geraldine McEwan | ... | Miss Jane Marple |
 | Christian Coulson | ... | Edmund Swettenham |
| Cherie Lunghi | ... | Mrs. Swettenham |
 | Robert Pugh | ... | Colonel Easterbrook |
 | Keeley Hawes | ... | Philippa Haymes |
| Zoë Wanamaker | ... | Letitia Blacklock |
| Claire Skinner | ... | Amy Murgatroyd |
| Frances Barber | ... | Lizzie Hinchcliffe |
| Elaine Paige | ... | Dora Bunner |
 | Matthew Goode | ... | Patrick Simmons |
 | Sienna Guillory | ... | Julia Simmons |
| Catherine Tate | ... | Mitzi Kosinski |
 | Christian Rubeck | ... | Rudi Schertz (as Christian Pedersen) |
| Alexander Armstrong | ... | DI Craddock |
| Richard Dixon | ... | Mr. Rowlandson |
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Lizzie Hinchcliffe:
Colonel Easterbrook! You really should drink more often!
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Featured in There's Something About Christie... Murder Made Simple (2007) (TV)
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There are so many departures from the original story in A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED, but unfortunately the biggest departure of all is GERALDINE McEWAN as Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple.
McEwan never suggests a clever old lady able to assimilate information while never dropping her knitting, deceptively fooling others into thinking that she's incapable of solving murders. Instead, McEwan comes cross as a sly old lady, sticking her nose into the affairs of others in a manner that borders on cunning deceit instead of a simple desire to get at the truth. She never looks as though she's pensive and thoughtful enough to solve anything, the way JOAN HICKSON did in her brilliant interpretation of Miss Marple.
Furthermore, the complicated plot has been tampered with to the extent that it doesn't even follow Christie's tale with any accuracy.
If you want to see the definitive version of this clever Christie story, you owe it to yourself to watch the 1985 version which remains one of the best TV adaptations of a Christie novel by sticking fairly closely to the original plot.