Like most credible writing, Nicolas Freeling’s idea for Commissariat Piet Van der Valk came out of real life events. Having dropped out...

The TV series “Midsomer Murders”, based on UK writer Caroline Graham's Inspector Barnaby mystery novels , originally had a working title “Barnaby” until screenwriter Anthony Horowitz supplied the familiar UK title. John Nettles stepped into the role of Chief Inspector John Barnaby in 1996 after painstaking casting. So, where was he before Midsomer, and where on earth has he been since? Before joining the Midsomer cast in 1996, John Nettles was already playing the role of a de

Sherlock Holmes’ now familiar deerstalker cap and curved calabash tobacco pipe were not really part of the original character in the...