3 April 2006
UKTV Kills Someone On The Hour, Every Hour! This Easter
Over the Easter long weekend you can enjoy the best Murder Mystery series the UK has to offer. For the first time on New
Zealand TV see Sherlock Holmes' classic tale The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes. Our gripping line-up also includes
Murder Rooms, A Touch of Frost, Midsomer Murders, Silent Witness and Wire in the Blood. You may want to lock your door!
On UKTV, SKY channel digital 4.
UKTV is also giving you the chance to win a trip for two to London, staying at the world famous Sherlock Holmes Hotel on
London's Baker Street, the home of the legendary Detective. Included in the prize are flights for two to London, hotel
accommodation, transfers to and from London Heathrow Airport to Sherlock Holmes Hotel in central London and two tickets
to the Sherlock Holmes Museum and tour. For all competition details and more information on the line up please see
www.uktv.co.nz
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle - Everybody knows the name Sherlock Holmes - or they think they do. But few know the true story of
Conan Doyle's remarkable life and fewer still the extent to which Doyle suppressed and sanitised the pain of Holmes'
birth. Inspired by J B Priestley's An Inspector Calls and The Sixth Sense, our tale is set between 1892 and 1899.
Murder Rooms - Set against the backdrop of the dark and often bloody nineteenth century, each drama tells the tale of
the real Sherlock Holmes, Joseph Bell. Each film draws us into an intricate and compelling web of suspense and intrigue,
as well as offering a fascinating insight into a friendship that would eventually give rise to one of the most famous
and enduring literary detectives of them all.
The Hound of the Baskervilles - The Baskerville family is cursed. Sir Charles Baskerville has lived an obsessive fear of
a family legend in which a spectral hound wreaks vengeance on his ancestors. His death seems innocent enough but
Mortimer, his friend and physician, is uneasy and suspicious. There is evidence of a desperate dash for safety. Much
worse, the distinct footprint of a gigantic hound close to the corpse sends Mortimer to perhaps the most famous address
in fiction: 221b Baker Street.
Midsomer Murders - The cosy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these darkly humorous
British television mysteries. John Nettles stars as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with Daniel Casey
as Sergeant Troy, his brash young assistant.
Based on the novels by Caroline Graham, a modern master of the English village mystery. The Mysteries: Death's Shadow -
A string of bizarre murders in Badgers Drift leads to the discovery of a long buried secret; Strangler's Wood-The
strangling of a beautiful Brazilian, whose body is found in Raven's Wood, harks back to three earlier murders; Blood
Will Out - Rival clans of travellers disrupt the peace of Martyr Warren and incense the local magistrate; and Beyond the
Grave - Unearthly happenings in and around the Aspern Tallow museum create an atmosphere of terror.
A Touch of Frost - David Jason here stars as Det.Ins. 'Jack' Frost based on the series of books by R.D Wingfield. The
stories are set around and near the fictitious town of Denton, which seems to be full of unpleasant people. Frost aided
by D.S George Toulan and most of the police station, hunt down the towns seemingly endless scumbags.
Frost in particular seems a very lonely man, who has only one drive in life - his work. He has a disastrous love life,
He's so preoccupied by his cases that he doesn't have a lot of time for the woman in his life.
ENDS