The ABC Murders

St Stephen’s Day, BBC One

The controversy surrounding this three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel should at the very least ignite a curiosity to tune in. You’ll

nd a goateed John Malkovich, with a cutglass English accent o ering his take on Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Both he and Inspector Crome, played by Rupert Grint, nd themselves in pursuit of a serial murderer, who is using the trains of Britain’s railway system as his killing ground.