XMAS SWIGWATCH 2023

Here is a summary of Christie-related on free-to-air UK TV during the festive season. Everyone hopes that the highlight will be the new version of Murder is Easy. For those who enjoy debating which Poirot was the best, three different versions of Murder on the Orient Express will be showing within 5 days of each other …

CHRISTMAS DAY
15:10 Death on the Nile (Peter Ustinov)    BBC2
21:50 Murder at the Vicarage (Joan Hickson) BBC4
22:30 Murder on the Orient Express (Suchet)  ITV3

BOXING DAY
04:10 The Cornish Mystery* (Suchet)     ITV3
10:55 Hercule Poirot’s Christmas* (Suchet)   ITV3
16:00 The Moving Finger (Hickson)      Drama  
20:00 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (H Laurie) ITV3

DECEMBER 27
07:35 Dead Man’s Mirror (Suchet)       ITV3
13:50 Lucy Worsley biography 1/3      BBC2
14:50 The Mirror Crack’d (Lansbury)     BBC2
16:35 Evil Under the Sun* (Ustinov)      BBC2
21:00 Murder is Easy 1/2 (NEW)        BBC1

DECEMBER 28
13:30 Lucy Worsley 2/3           BBC2
14:30 Witness for the Prosecution (Wilder)   BBC2
16:25 Murder on the Orient Express (Finney)  BBC2
17:25 The Mirror Crack’d … (Hickson)     Drama       
21:00 Murder is Easy (2/2)          BBC1

DECEMBER 29
13:30 Lucy Worsley 3/3            BBC2
16:50 The Body in the Library (Hickson)    Drama
20:00 Murder on the Orient Express (Branagh) More4

DECEMBER 31
17:40 A Pocket Full of Rye (Hickson)      Drama

JANUARY 1
20:00 The Underdog (Suchet)         ITV3

* repeated on other days