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Poirot Revival Thread

coolsomecoolsome
edited June 2013 in General Chat
I herd rumors about Poirot being canceled before the last 6 books could be adapted so I emailed ITV asking and got this reply.
ITV wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your email regarding ‘Poirot’. We have a new film yet to be broadcast The Clocks which was produced last year and ITV is in active discussions about doing more. Scripts are currently being developed but we are not currently in a position to announce new commissions. We are delighted with how well both Poirot and Marple are received by the ITV1 audience. I do hope you will continue to watch and enjoy many of our programmes.
May I take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time to contact us here at ITV Viewer Services. If we can be of further assistance please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards
Julia
ITV VIEWER

She didn't answer my question but she didn't say yes its axed and saying developing on new scripts seems like a good sign!
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  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited May 2011
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  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    DAISHI wrote: »
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    The only Poirot that matters.

    It's his version Im talking about ^^. David Sucet is the best Poirot! and an awesome Reacher Guilt.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited May 2011
    coolsome wrote: »
    It's his version Im talking about ^^. David Sucet is the best Poirot! and an awesome Reacher Guilt.

    I know I changed it when I realized :D
    I thought it was some newfangled poirot at first :P
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited May 2011
    It's nice that they took the time to respond to you. I wouldn't have expected that.

    Thanks for sharing. I always like to see a series finish, especially when it's so close to the finish line. Plus, Poirot is awesome.
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited May 2011
    Oui.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited May 2011
    Give it a year before they set it in the jungle with Ant and Dec
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    JedExodus wrote: »
    Give it a year before they set it in the jungle with Ant and Dec

    Lets all hope there the murder victims.
  • dumpling321dumpling321
    edited May 2011
    I highly doubt they would choose to cancel the series before filming the last 6, at least not without filming curtain... I do somewhat doubt that they will film the trials of hercules tho...
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    dumpling321 wrote: »
    I highly doubt they would choose to cancel the series before filming the last 6, at least not without filming curtain... I do somewhat doubt that they will film the trials of hercules tho...

    I have my doubts about the Big Four being filmed. XD
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited May 2011
    Still, imagine the uproar if they didn't. Only six to go, and they just gave up? That'd be so depressing. Old women with nothing better to watch tutting with disappointment. Is that what you want, ITV? Is it?
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    Darth Marsden wrote: »
    Still, imagine the uproar if they didn't. Only six to go, and they just gave up? That'd be so depressing. Old women with nothing better to watch tutting with disappointment. Is that what you want, ITV? Is it?

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  • dumpling321dumpling321
    edited May 2011
    coolsome wrote: »
    I have my doubts about the Big Four being filmed. XD

    OMG! That's the one book that I want to be filmed the most... I just REALLY need to see poirot as agent 007 fighting to save the world from the threat of some chinese dude ^_^
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    dumpling321 wrote: »
    OMG! That's the one book that I want to be filmed the most... I just REALLY need to see poirot as agent 007 fighting to save the world from the threat of some chinese dude ^_^

    I have never in my life suspended more disbelief then when I read that! and I'm a Easterners and Wrestling fan!!
  • dumpling321dumpling321
    edited May 2011
    coolsome wrote: »
    I have never in my life suspended more disbelief then when I read that! and I'm a Easterners and Wrestling fan!!

    hehe... it WAS an interesting read though ^_^
  • skeeterskeeter
    edited May 2011
    Good to know they are still going... Curtain is the one I will not be able to bring myself to watch... I haven't read it either.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    dumpling321 wrote: »
    hehe... it WAS an interesting read though ^_^

    Yh I did quite like it. Its just so complty diffrent from what I was expecting or what Poirot is.
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited May 2011
    I've not been a fan of the Suchet Poirots over the last few years... they've had to hack away at the stories so much to fit the time slots and available cast the result has been pretty awful. But I think "The Big Four" really could work, so long as they don't meddle with the unusual concept (Poirot versus proto-Bondian supervillains). The one there's no hope for is "The Labours of Hercules", which they should've done when they did the rest of the short stories

    (John Moffat on BBC Radio is superb, though, and being radio there is the avaialble scope to do the stories justice. They've even poached ITV's Inspector Japp!)
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited May 2011
    On a related note -

    http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/news-extra/article/142190/inspector-morse-to-return-to-itv-next-year.html

    I remember the story they are adapting, it was quite good - Dexter had kind of set it up for a new series of stories, but nothing else seems to have developed (there was also a story about Lewis hearkening back to Morse's days in "The Verdict of Us All", an anthology celebrating HRF Keating)
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited May 2011
    Yes, I remember reading the story. Seems interesting, but much like the Only Fools and Horses prequels, they need the right actor to play the part. Not too worried about the script since they've got Colin on board, but if you don't convince us it's a young Morse, you fail.

    I really need to get back into Morse, I was about 3/5ths through it when I got distracted by something else. And then there's Lewis... Aye aye aye...
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    FitzoliverJ wrote: »
    The one there's no hope for is "The Labours of Hercules", which they should've done when they did the rest of the short stories

    I wonder if they can get away with fimling just one of she shorts and saying it counts as one of the 6 remaning storys. And If anyone in ITV is reading this and are worring about making 12 stories being a budget issue then do what I saidXD
  • dumpling321dumpling321
    edited May 2011
    coolsome wrote: »
    I wonder if they can get away with fimling just one of she shorts and saying it counts as one of the 6 remaning storys. And If anyone in ITV is reading this and are worring about making 12 stories being a budget issue then do what I saidXD

    I say they should film tLoH as sort of a 2-3 part miniseries type of event to end the series... I havn't read it yet, but isn't the premise that Poirot was cataloging some of his favorite cases and comparing them to hercules' trials... wouldn't that be a fantastic note to end on, and from what i've read, the 12 stories are sort of short and could easily be fit into a 4-6 hour event

    on a side note, I saw a FANTASTIC way for "the big four" to be made into an episode on IMDB... the poster suggested that Hastings with his superiority complex sit down to write a fictional story about Poirot using his own sense of romanticism to try to prove something to Poirot, however as he continues to write the story it gets more and more absurd culminating in Poirot pretending to be his own twin brother, and then escaping from an exploding mountain 007 style... I just thought that was a great idea ^_^
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    dumpling321 wrote: »
    on a side note, I saw a FANTASTIC way for "the big four" to be made into an episode on IMDB... the poster suggested that Hastings with his superiority complex sit down to write a fictional story about Poirot using his own sense of romanticism to try to prove something to Poirot, however as he continues to write the story it gets more and more absurd culminating in Poirot pretending to be his own twin brother, and then escaping from an exploding mountain 007 style... I just thought that was a great idea ^_^

    I now choose to belive thats what happend!
  • skeeterskeeter
    edited May 2011
    dumpling321 wrote: »
    I say they should film tLoH as sort of a 2-3 part miniseries type of event to end the series... I havn't read it yet, but isn't the premise that Poirot was cataloging some of his favorite cases and comparing them to hercules' trials... wouldn't that be a fantastic note to end on, and from what i've read, the 12 stories are sort of short and could easily be fit into a 4-6 hour event

    That's a very good idea! I'd enjoy a miniseries...
    on a side note, I saw a FANTASTIC way for "the big four" to be made into an episode on IMDB... the poster suggested that Hastings with his superiority complex sit down to write a fictional story about Poirot using his own sense of romanticism to try to prove something to Poirot, however as he continues to write the story it gets more and more absurd culminating in Poirot pretending to be his own twin brother, and then escaping from an exploding mountain 007 style... I just thought that was a great idea ^_^

    Very cool! It reminds me of the Evil Under The Sun game...
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited May 2011
    [QUOTE=dumpling321;503523I havn't read it yet, but isn't the premise that Poirot was cataloging some of his favorite cases and comparing them to hercules' trials... [/QUOTE]

    No, it isn't.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    Which ep was it where Poirot saw a murder mystery and then in the interval he wrote down the murder's name gave it to the director or something and said to open it after the play is done and he out the wrong persons name down and he was pissed at the play thinking they got it wrong.
  • skeeterskeeter
    edited May 2011
    coolsome wrote: »
    Which ep was it where Poirot saw a murder mystery and then in the interval he wrote down the murder's name gave it to the director or something and said to open it after the play is done and he out the wrong persons name down and he was pissed at the play thinking they got it wrong.

    I haven't read or seen that one! It sounds cool...
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    Great news!! ITV is continuing Poirot!
    http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1198:itv-pushes-ahead-with-final-poirot-episodes-&catid=1:tv-media&Itemid=3
  • skeeterskeeter
    edited May 2011
    coolsome wrote: »
    Great news!! ITV is continuing Poirot!
    http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1198:itv-pushes-ahead-with-final-poirot-episodes-&catid=1:tv-media&Itemid=3

    Woooo! :D
  • OrigamiOrigami
    edited May 2011
    I always lol when people say David Suchet is the best Poirot. As if they have seen other depictions lol. :D

    But yes, David Suchet is awesome.
  • dumpling321dumpling321
    edited May 2011
    Origami wrote: »
    I always lol when people say David Suchet is the best Poirot. As if they have seen other depictions lol. :D

    But yes, David Suchet is awesome.

    there were 3-4 other poirots who did movies before Suchet took the role of Poirot, so they HAVE seen other depictions...

    in fact Suchet got his start playing inspector jap in "thirteen at dinner" starring peter ustinov as Poirot
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited May 2011
    dumpling321 wrote: »
    there were 3-4 other poirots who did movies before Suchet took the role of Poirot, so they HAVE seen other depictions...

    I think you mean that they "should have" seen them. Just like the people who think Jeremy Brett is the best Sherlock Holmes should have seen Basil Rathbone, Ronald Howard, Robert Stephens and Peter Cushing, and heard Clive Merrison, but probably haven't.
  • dumpling321dumpling321
    edited May 2011
    FitzoliverJ wrote: »
    I think you mean that they "should have" seen them. Just like the people who think Jeremy Brett is the best Sherlock Holmes should have seen Basil Rathbone, Ronald Howard, Robert Stephens and Peter Cushing, and heard Clive Merrison, but probably haven't.

    I believe that most Poirot fans have probibly seen Peter Ustinov at one time or another, he was a pretty popular Poirot for awile...
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    In the Tomb of Sammun-Mak Sameth said "Holy Hercule Poirot in a blood-soaked bathtub with a full set of dental records and a mud-caked workboot with two missing treads!"
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    Old news now but now thres 7 episodes to make. (one of them become Dumb Witness)
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited May 2011
    Dead Man's Folly is the first one to be adapted! I haven't read this one yet so that's good.
  • Saint HakushinSaint Hakushin
    edited May 2011
    This has nothing to do with Halo or any other game I like. Close this thread or il report it.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited June 2011
    Saint Hakushin wrote: »
    This has nothing to do with Halo or any other game I like. Close this thread or il report it.

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    What the hell are you talking about:confused:
  • RibsRibs
    edited June 2011
    coolsome wrote: »
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    What the hell are you talking about:confused:

    He's talking about this being a games forum and that Poirot is not a game so clearly this discussion is moot.

    Unless...


    QUICK! SOMEONE OPEN AGS AND MAKE CURTAIN SO THIS DOESNT GET CLOSED
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited June 2011
    Ribs wrote: »
    He's talking about this being a games forum and that Poirot is not a game so clearly this discussion is moot.


    Poirot is a game though! Theres a PC one a Wii one and DS.
    Ribs wrote: »
    QUICK! SOMEONE OPEN AGS AND MAKE CURTAIN SO THIS DOESNT GET CLOSED

    Why did you say that word in a Poirot thread now its doomed! Its like the Scottish play.
  • dumpling321dumpling321
    edited June 2011
    coolsome wrote: »
    Poirot is a game though! Theres a PC one a Wii one and DS.



    Why did you say that word in a Poirot thread now its doomed! Its like the Scottish play.

    Would you be talking about that shakespere play... MACBETH!!!!
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