Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks: Moonflower Murders BBC One, 9.15pm Cast your mind back to April 2023, and you may remember a gentle, time-hopping cosy crime drama called Magpie Murders popping up on our screens. It starred Lesley Manville as book editor Susan Ryeland, who was on the hunt for the killer of obnoxious top author Alan Conway (Conleth Hill), helped along the way by his fictional 1950s detective, Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan).
The series was based on the first in a series of novels by acclaimed writer Anthony Horowitz, and it went down a treat with viewers. It’s taken a while for a follow-up run to appear, but it’s making its debut this week. “I had an incredible time returning to the role of the smart and feisty Susan Ryeland,” claims Oscar-nominee Manville.
“Anthony Horowitz has written another ingenious adaptation and I’m thrilled to be a part of it.” Moonflower Murders Since we last saw her, life has changed somewhat for Susan. She’s given up her career to move to Crete to be with her long-term love Andreas.
However, her mind soon turns to death and destruction once more while reading another of Conway’s novels. This one was inspired by a real-life murder committed at a British country hotel eight years previously. Cecily Treherne, the young woman who helps run it, thinks the wrong man was arrested, and when she vanishes, Susan steps in to investigate.
Also rejoining the cast is Daniel Mays; watch .