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Starting its second season May 6 (PBS) is the BBC’s Sherlock. The three new episodes will be reworks of the classics: “A Scandal in Bohemia” (Irene Adler with nudity and laptops), “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (a 20 year disappearance…a monstrous hound…I wouldn’t have missed this for the world) and “The Final Problem.”
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Lee Goldberg broke into television with a freelance script sale to Spenser: For Hire. Since then he has stayed true to his characters in both novels and scriptwriting with a dose of humor.
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Mystery Readers Journal is a cross between a college course and a coffee date with your favorite author. What started out as a 4-page newsletter, back in the manual cut and paste days, has evolved into an 80 plus page quarterly magazine (both online and print) that covers the spectrum of the mystery genre.
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Close–Up is the latest book detailing the exploits of Margot O’Banion film editor, and director Max Skull. This is the ninth in the series from Kit Sloane, who wrote the first installment Final Cut almost 12 years ago. Now Max and Margot have their own M2 studios and a grown-up son named Luis. Their current film in progress is–The Dead, A Zombie Love Story.
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The Premise: Each episode begins with “You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day.” And that’s the good news. The premise of the series is essentially two men and a machine. The machine, designed by Mr. Finch, conducts elaborate and intrusive electronic monitoring of millions of people in order to protect the United States from terrorist attack. And it works.
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Leading the pack in environmental sleuthing are the Park Rangers. It’s a very popular conceit for setting up an ecological drama and they come in all locations and styles. The settings themselves are enough to make an environmental point even if the plots and motives are more personal. Some of the descriptions are breathtaking and make the books worth a read just for that.
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In the pantheon of great TV mystery series Murder She Wrote stands out. The longest running mystery show on television until surpassed by Law & Order, it scored in the top-fifteen of all shows for eleven of its’ twelve seasons and is still beloved in reruns around the world
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On Thursday night at 9 p.m. if you look hard enough, you will find The Finder, a new show from Fox that is a spin-off from Bones. The Finder in person is Walter Sherman (Geoffrey Stults – 7th Heaven, How I Met Your Mother, The Break-Up), Iraq war veteran with a brain injury that gives him an uncanny ability and desire to find things. The character is based on The Locator books by Richard Greener.
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If you have ever enjoyed one of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels (there are eighteen of them so you’ve had plenty of chance), you owe it to yourself to check out the movie and for added fun, see it with a similarly inclined friend.
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Main Street
This shopping district bills itself as “a world away from the ordinary, a block away from the beach.” It’s about a mile long walk from Pico Boulevard south to Navy Street.
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Imagine you’ve just made a career change from lingerie buyer to bounty hunter and your first assignment is to bring in the hunk who did you wrong (twice) when you were growing up, and who is now a cop wanted for murder. In 1994, Janet Evanovich did just with her first Stephanie Plum book – One for the Money. She’s been at it ever since, through 18 books and now a movie starring Katherine Heigl.
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It takes a thief to catch a thief. It’s a sure-fire plot premise that can be traced back to the ancient Greeks. Raffles*, John Robie, Thomas Crown and Simon Templar have all worn the mantle with great style as portrayed by David Niven, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore.
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Guess who’s watching TV?
Women, Middle Aged Women. “Women are the last vestige of the broadcast-dominant viewer,” according to John Spiropoulos, VP at MediaVest and director of video investment and activation. “Especially women over 50. The broadcast networks gear their programming to the female audience because they’re the ones most likely to watch entertainment programming. On average, it’s 65% to 70% female on network prime time, and with CW and others that focus on women, it skews 70% to 75% female for female-targeted shows.”
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It’s been a bumper season for Sherlock Holmes fans with a new movie, new BBC-TV series, a new novel featuring Holmes himself, and a book of short stories “inspired by” Holmes. He also makes appearances in two other books where he ably assists Mary Russell.
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