Agatha Christie's Poirot

It is-

[laughs] It's like the end of an Agatha Christie when Poirot tells you everything that he's been doing.

Yeah, yeah.

And you're like...

It'll be really interesting to see if there's another one-off Christie adaptation, which was sometimes treated to by the terrestrial channels.

You know, there was the adaptation of ABC with John Markovich's Poirot.

Yeah, we've had Why Didn't They Ask Evans? So that could still be around the corner.

We'll have to keep an eye out and see.

Greg is Vera, a curmudgeon with a heart of gold.

And Brett, you're Poirot, possessed of all the facts, detail-oriented.

Yeah.

I would like to say, Greg, I mean, not to rub it in, but Poirot is probably the cooler of the two.

Well, you are the cooler of the two.

We prove that every week.

It's very, very popular.

In Japan, I heard recently that for 20 years, the top of the viewing ratings was Poirot, but Vera has recently knocked Poirot off the top slot.

That's amazing.

And it's incredible how it translates, not just literally, but to all audiences around the world.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

... and Poirot.

You wanna murder somebody in one of those.

Most people would've jumped to solve a murder on the Orient Express.

Yes

... mysteries where Poirot has to go to the country manor to solve the murder.

There's always an ineffectual cop who's just a buffoon.

Right.

We love a murder mystery.

We love like a crime, because you were into, what were you into? Was it Poirot? Poirot, Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie as well.

Agatha

Christie, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot.

Do you think there's something about, because I was obsessed with

Jessica Fletcher and that like, whodunit.

Yeah.

It is a Poirot situation.

Yeah.

Well, and he does write.

The one I like the least is when I'm like, oh, it's that guy.

And everything is confirming it's that guy.

And then at the end, Poirot goes, and it's that guy.

And I go, yeah.

Yeah, so she did invent one of her own.

Enter Hercule Poirot.

Okay, so Poirot's a bit of a character, isn't he? He's a former Belgian police officer.

Obviously, he's a foreigner, and yet he sets himself up as a private detective in London.

He's famously got a great mustache, doesn't he? And he's quite a quirky guy, isn't he?

[upbeat music] Chapter three: the man with a penny.

It's the late 1980s, and ITV are looking around for their next big TV drama.

Their competitor, the BBC, has just had recent success with an adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, and so the execs at ITV decide it's time for a new Poirot series.