“We have reached the end of novels”: bad news for the Agatha Christie series on France 2!

After fifteen years of existence and almost fifty episodes, one of the most popular detective series of France Télévisions is being prepared, which is more or less inspired by the novels of the Queen of Crime.

After the tandem, whose last TV movie aired a few weeks ago, i.e. Perfect Crimes, the series of Agatha Christie’s little murders will finally come to an end, as our colleagues Recreational television. The final two previously unreleased episodes, “Mortal Karma” and “Murders at the Boarding House,” are scheduled to air on Friday February 23 and March 8 at 9:10 p.m. on France 2.

Launched in 2009, Agatha Christie’s Little Murders, created by Anna Jaffer and Muriel Magellan, would have three very different consecutive “periods” during its broadcast, divided into three seasons with different castings.

From 2009 to 2012, viewers could for the first time follow the investigations of Commissioner Jean Larossiere (Antoine Duler) and his deputy inspector Emile Lampion (Marius Colucci) in the 1930s.

Season 2 (the longest), consisting of 27 episodes scheduled to run from 2013 to 2020, focused on the adventures of the trio Alice Avril (Blandine Bellavoir), Swan Laurence (Samuel Labarte) and Marlene Leroy (Élodie Frenck) in the 1950s. 1960s.

Finally, the third and final season, which began in 2021 and takes place in the 1970s, is played by the characters of Annie Greco (Emilie Gavois-Kahn), Max Beretta (Arthur Dupont) and Rose Bellecour (Chloé Chaudoye).

“You have to know how to end the series,” explains the Little Murders producer

Asked by Télé Loisirs about the reasons for stopping Agatha Christie’s Little Murders, producer Sophie Revill explains that the writing team simply reached the end of inspiration after 48 episodes adapted or written with Agatha Christie in mind.

“Les Petits Meurtres…, 11 films were made in the first season, 27 in the second and 10 in the third, which is a great performance!”Commented by Sophie Révil. “We love this adventure, but after fifteen years, we were a little bit at the end of our inspiration, you have to know how to end the series”.

It remains to be seen whether “Murders in a Boarding House”, the last episode of the series, which airs on Friday March 8 on France 2, will be a classic investigation or Greco’s wonderful conclusion. Adventures, Beretta and Bellecourt, as expected by the screenwriters of this opus, Flor Cosinets and Helen Lombardi.

Like every episode of Season 3 except the first, which was loosely inspired by the novel A night that never endsThis last investigation will be completely original in any case, because it is written only in the “Agatha Christie style”.

“We’ve reached the end of the novels. We did a total of 38 episodes in the first two seasons. Agatha Christie wrote 66 novels. But there are all the ones we can’t adapt, like The Crimes of the Orient-Express. It’s too difficult to adapt.”– Sophie Reville told us in 2021 at the launch of the third season of Petits Murders on France 2.

“As the characters and comedy took up more and more space, we kept only the mechanics of the novels. Which is nothing, because Agatha’s mechanics are simply brilliant. But we bought all the books very expensively, so in the end you don’t keep much”.

So we went to James Pritchard and said, “We’ve got to give him more freedom. Let’s, like the Sherlock series, an adaptation based on the works of Agatha Christie. So we decided to use some mechanics because now we all know it by heart. This may refer to an alibi, or a victim who is actually the killer. And James Pritchard said yes, which is still extraordinary.”.