Madame Blanc Mysteries star Sally Lindsay shares her favorite Acorn TV series.
Wolf is a dark and gripping British psychological thriller that follows DI Jack Caffery, a young detective consumed by guilt and obsession after his ten-year-old brother vanished years ago. Convinced his neighbor was responsible, Jack's relentless pursuit of the truth pushes him to the edge. At the same time, the wealthy Anchor-Ferrers family are imprisoned and tormented in their isolated countryside home by a cruel and unpredictable psychopath. When these two stories violently intersect, Jack is forced to confront his own demons in a tense, chilling race against time where justice, revenge, and survival blur into one.
True crime limited series chronicling the global hunt for the identify thief and murderer dubbed 'The Chameleon Killer.' After a headless, handless body is discovered in a Florida canal in 1990, law enforcement begins a search for the killer which takes them all the way to London before the trail goes cold. What ensues is a string of stolen identities, wrongful accusations, and a twelve-year cat-and-mouse chase across multiple countries as authorities close in on the most wanted woman in the world.
Investigative reporter Louise Shorter re-visits some of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British criminal history. Cases where lives were destroyed when individuals were wrongly accused of murders they did not commit. During the series, Shorter meets the wrongly accused, family members, and those close to the case. First, the original investigation which led to the innocent being accused is examined, and then Shorter investigates the evidence that eventually caught the real murderer - looking at the mistakes made and the consequences of a killer walking free. In doing so, she reveals the tipping point moments when justice failed and how the wrongs of the law were eventually righted to put the real killer behind bars.
From the creator of Being Human, The Red King is a mystery-thriller set on a remote island with a haunting past that combines a police investigation with a chilling folk horror. When city police sergeant Grace Narayan is forced into a punishment posting on St. Jory, she's drawn into a decades-old disappearance and a community bound by eerie traditions born from a century-old lockdown. Everyone's a suspect. But on this island, the rules are anything but clea
Disillusioned British spy Sylvia Fox (Emilia Fox) is in Italy for her niece's wedding when the groom goes missing. Sylvia solves the mystery and, longing to reconnect with her sister (Tara Fitzgerald), decides to start anew in Umbria. Soon she's tackling other cases and winning over a handsome local cop (Giovanni Cirfiera), even as her ex-husband/ex-colleague (Jamie Bamber) tries to lure her back.
In 1930s England, a young René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and other renowned surrealist artists gather at a lavish country estate for a private exhibition. But when a wild night ends in murder, and Magritte wakes beside the corpse with no memory of what happened, they become trapped in a deadly mystery where nothing is what it seems. "Glossy, grisly whodunnit - and it's loads of fun" - The Guardian.
This documentary series explores the murders of four flight attendants in the 1970's and 1980's in Texas. Their names are Jeannie, Cheryl, Beverley and Jeeta. All four women worked for the same airline and their murders bear striking similarities. While one man, convicted rapist Jonathan Reed was found guilty of the first murder, three other murders took place while he was in prison. Set against a backdrop of incredible archive uncovering the golden age of American air travel, we explore how the women were living at a time of new found freedoms, aspiration and glamour and reveal how airlines used their female employees sexuality as a major selling point that had potentially far reaching impact.
The Graham Norton Show features Graham trading quips with the celebrities who fascinate him.
Married couple Vinny (Michala Banas) and Cole (Brett Tucker) are retired detectives who leave Sydney behind to run a seaside motel in New Zealand. But their fresh start is short-lived when a suspicious death draws them into a series of baffling murders. Teaming up with local constable Jamie Haira and an unlikely group of allies, the pair discover that murder and mayhem have a way of checking in.