A very different take on Poirot

When John Malkovich (above) announced he would try out the role of the Belgian super-sleuth with the over-active little grey cells, Christie fans nearly choked on their perfectly symmetrical boiled eggs. But it turned out he wasn’t half bad. Over three episodes, he plays Poirot as an older, haunted obsessive, looking haggard as letters signed ABC arrive at his home predicting murders that then take place. Acorn TV, from Monday