This series has been discreetly livening up TV evenings for 25 years. It is one of the longest in history and is still making its return to television this week…
In the peaceful fictional county of Midsomer, in the heart of the English countryside, appearances are often deceiving. Behind the charming cottages and green pastures hide family dramas, stubborn enmities and unspeakable secrets that sometimes lead to worse. As the suspicious death of the patriarch of a great British family tears his heirs apart, an inspector as tenacious as he is insightful intrudes into the secrets of this clan. Will he be able to sort out fact from fiction when everyone seems to have something to hide?
This scenario is the one that will be offered to viewers this Sunday, January 26, from 9:05 p.m., on France 3. The faithful of the public channel will find for the occasion this investigator who excels in the art of decoding non- said and reveal the hidden faces behind the respectable facades. Courteous but tenacious, he does not let himself be fooled by lies and pretenses. Even less by the ever more bizarre murders that he has been dealing with for over 25 years!
Thrill with joy! The 24th season of Inspector Barnaby has arrived on Channel 3. A salvo of new investigations for the indefatigable chief inspector, who will accompany us for four weeks of at least unprecedented events in France. The cult saga, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2022 (yes there were holes in the racket), is one of the oldest detective series still in activity, as indicated by a recent ranking of the site Colliderjust ahead of New York, special unit.
Launched in 1997, Inspector Barnaby (“Midsomer Murders” in the original version) has established itself as a must-have in English-style crime fiction, with now more than 130 episodes under its belt. Its unrivaled success is primarily due to always original and clever plots, where the most unusual murders follow one another in deceptively tranquil settings, from poisoning by a tropical frog to electrocution in the gym, the macabre imagination of the screenwriters seems limitless. reinvent, with the added bonus of a touch of so-British black humor.
In a quarter of a century, Inspector Barnaby has thus succeeded in attracting a wide audience in more than 200 countries, in addition to its enormous success in Great Britain. The series even survived without difficulty the change of main actor in 2011. It must be said that its other strength lies in its colorful characters, played with a delicious mixture of realism and eccentricity. Facing a phlegmatic and stoic Barnaby, embodying the quintessence of the gentleman detective, a gallery of atypical, even zany suspects parades, all carrying heavy secrets. Their strangeness, in this slightly nostalgic setting of the English countryside, can still maintain the flavor of the series for a while.