Mystery!, the go-to source for the best in British crime thrillers, is back with a revamped look, a new host and a fresh supply of body bags.
This season, Mystery! is presented as part of the Masterpiece series, which also includes classic and contemporary programs. Its new host is stage and film star Alan Cumming. The programs air Sundays at 9/8 p.m. CT on KET1 and Thursdays at 9/8 p.m. CT on KET2.
The murder and mayhem begin June 22/26, with the all-new Inspector Lewis series. Kevin Whately (The English Patient) returns as Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis in this spin-off to the popular Inspector Morse series, which featured Lewis as the working-class foil to the reclusive, erudite, Oxford Detective Chief Inspector Morse (John Thaw).
In the first program, titled “Whom the Gods Would Destroy,” a middle-aged Oxford graduate turns up dead near his run-down houseboat, sending Lewis and his partner Hathaway down a twisting trail rife with literary allusions and unexpected associations. The detectives discover that back in his undergraduate days, the victim was a member of a club with roots in the Greek myth of Dionyssus. But when they look to his former schoolmates for help, no one is talking.
Other programs in the series include “Old School Ties,” airing June 29 and July 3, in which technophobe Lewis is assigned to chaperone a celebrity criminal, the so-called “first of the rock ’n’ roll hackers,” on his controversial visit to speak at Oxford. In “Expiation,” airing July 6 and 10, an Oxford soccer mom is found hanged in her home following a visit from a mysterious stranger. Lewis and Hathaway uncover a web of family and sexual intrigue that convince them the initial suicide verdict may not tell the whole story.
Masterpiece “Mystery!” is produced by WGBH/Boston.
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