Moonflower Murders (TV series)

• Lesley Manville as Susan Ryeland
• Timothy McMullan as Atticus Pünd
• Alexandros Logothetis as Andreas Patakis
• Daniel Mays as Locke / Chubb
• Pooky Quesnel as Pauline Treherne / Maureen Gardner
• Claire Rushbrook as Katie Williams
• Conleth Hill as Alan Conway
• Matthew Beard as James Taylor
• Sanjeev Kohli as Sajid Khan
• Mark Gatiss as Frank Parris / Oskar Berlin
• Rosalie Craig as Lisa Treherne / Melissa James
• Pippa Bennett-Warner as Madeline Cain
• Adrian Rawlins as Lawrence Treherne / Lance Gardner
• Liam Garrigan as Leonard Collins
• Jeany Spark as Samantha Collins
• Kostis Daskalakis as Vangelis
• Alec Secareanu as Stefan Leonida
• Will Tudor as Aiden MacNeil / Algernon Marsh
• Amy Griffiths as Cecily MacNeil née Treherne
• Rupert Evans as John Spencer
• Wade Briggs as Liam Corby
• Joanna Bacon as Gwyneth Endicott / Phyllis Chandler
• Thomas Coombes as Derek Endicott / Eric Chandler
• Tim Plester as Martin Webster
• Kate Ashfield as Joanne Webster

In January 2023, the series was bought by BBC One from BritBox. The BBC then developed plans to produce a sequel series to Magpie Murders.^[1] Author Anthony Horowitz adapted his book for the series himself, which is directed by Rebecca Gatward.^[2] The six-part series is produced by Eleventh Hour Films and executive produced by Jill Green, and made in association with PBS’s Masterpiece, for whom the first series attracted over five million viewers.^[3][4]

In 2023, the BBC began filming a series based on Moonflower Murders, released in 2024. Lesley Manville and Timothy McMullan reprised their roles as Susan and Atticus from the previous Magpie Murders series.^[5] The series features new cast members including Mark Gatiss, Rosalie Craig, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Adrian Rawlins, as well as returning roles for Alexandros Logothetis, Daniel Mays, Claire Rushbrook, Conleth Hill, Matthew Beard and Sanjeev Kohli.^[6]

Filming was completed by December 2023, with filming locations including Dublin and Crete.^[7][8]

The series was broadcast in the US on Masterpiece on 15 September 2024^[17], and on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2024.^[9]

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating.^[18]

Rachel Cooke in The New Statesman described the series as a "superb and highly intricate homage to Golden Age crime fiction".^[19] Vicky Jessop in the Evening Standard said that the series was a "fabulously multi-layered story [that] takes all the conventions of the genre and twists them in ways that makes every cliché feel fresh again".^[20] Anita Singh The Daily Telegraph gave a less positive review, conceding that it "has all the Horowitz ingredients – clever plotting, sprightly dialogue, nice flashes of humour and an appealing lead" with "nothing to dislike, it just over-eggs the pudding. Having watched six episodes in the series, I can’t decide whether the denouement is satisfying or silly".^[21]