THIS IS NOT A MURDER MYSTERY | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL

This Is Not a Murder Mystery is a Belgian English-language murder mystery television series, set in England during the 1930s with an ensemble cast featuring Pierre Gervais, Iñaki Mur, Florence Hall, Frank Bourke and Mike Hoffmann.

Set on a lavish country estate in England during the 1930s, a collection of famous artists find themselves trapped in the midst of a serial killer.

 

Cast

 

Pierre Gervais as René Magritte

Iñaki Mur as Salvador Dalí

Florence Hall as Lee Miller

Frank Bourke as Man Ray

Mike Hoffmann as Max Ernst

Stephen Tompkinson as DCI Thistletwaite

Geert Van Rampelberg as ELT Mesens

Oscar Louis Högström as Nash

Lauren Versnick as Sheila Legge

Donna Banya as DC Mary Quant

Jonathan Delaney Tynan as Archibald Jukes

Mathilde Warnier as Georgette Magritte

Regina Bikkinina as Gala Dalí

Julian De Backer as constable

Aoibhinn McGinnity as Lord James

 

The series is produced by Panenka in co-production with Deadpan Pictures and distributed by Studiocanal. The six-part series is directed by Hans Herbots and is based on an original idea by Christophe Dirickx and Matthias Lebeer and written and created by Dirickx and Paul Baeten with Lebeer as the co-director of episodes 3 and 4. The title is based on the "This is not a pipe" wording below the René Magritte 1929 picture The Treachery of Images. The series has Kato Maes and Kristoffel Mertens as producers, and was initially pitched at the 2022 Co-Pro Series event, part of the Berlin Film Festival. It was filmed in Ireland and Belgium in 2024, mostly in the English-language. First look images from the set were released in November 2024.

 

Casting

The cast includes Pierre Gervais, Iñaki Mur, Florence Hall, Frank Bourke and Mike Hoffmann, but the director Herbots was quoted by Variety as saying that they chose "newcomers instead of established actors" because they did not want "famous faces drawing attention away from the characters…The show is a real ensemble piece, and I thought it was very important to find personalities that match but were also able to create conflict. We managed to get a really interesting ensemble".The cast also includes Stephen Tompkinson, Geert Van Rampelberg, Regina Bikkinina, Oscar Högströn, Lauren Versnick, Donna Banya, Jonathan Delaney Tynan and Mathilde Warnier.

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials | Official Trailer | Netflix

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials is a British miniseries based on the 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie. Dramatised by Chris Chibnall, and directed by Chris Sweeney, the series stars Mia McKenna-Bruce, Edward Bluemel, Iain Glen, Martin Freeman, and Helena Bonham Carter. It premiered on Netflix on 15 January 2026.

 

Cast

Main

Mia McKenna-Bruce as Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent

Edward Bluemel as Jimmy Thesiger

Iain Glen as Lord Caterham

Martin Freeman as Superintendent Battle

Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Caterham

Supporting

Hughie O'Donnell as Bill Eversleigh

Nyasha Hatendi as Dr Cyril Matip

Alex Macqueen as George Lomax

Nabhaan Rizwan as Ronny Devereux

Corey Mylchreest as Gerry Wade

Dorothy Atkinson as Maria, Lady Coote

Mark Lewis Jones as Sir Oswald Coote

Tim Preston as Rupert 'Pongo' Bateman

Ella-Rae Smith as Loraine Wade

Guy Siner as Tredwell

Ella Bruccoleri as Socks

Tristan Gemmill as Doctor Jackman

Liz White as Emily

Josef Davies as Alfred

 

Episodes

No.       Title     Directed by    Written by       Original release date

1            "Bundle of Love"        Chris Sweeney           Chris Chibnall            15 January 2026

In 1920, Lord Caterham meets his death in Spain, gored by a bull at the Plaza de Toros de Ronda. Five years later, his widow Lady Caterham has rented out their country estate for a party hosted by the steel magnate Sir Oswald Coote who hopes to secure a secret government contract. Lady Caterham's daughter, Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent, makes romantic plans with Gerry Wade, her late brother's friend and one of several overnight guests from the Foreign Office, who intimates that he intends to propose to her. Gerry is known for sleeping late, and as a prank his friends hide eight alarm clocks in his room. In the morning, he is found dead from an overdose of sleeping medication; seven of the clocks have been rearranged on the mantlepiece, and the eighth is later found on the lawn. Bundle refuses to believe that Gerry was suicidal, and discovers a letter written to his sister Loraine warning her about "the Seven Dials". Bundle investigates, enlisting the help of Gerry's colleague Ronny Devereux. She realises she is being followed, and receives an anonymous warning note. While out driving, she finds Ronny in the roadway; he has been shot. With his dying breath, he mentions his colleague Jimmy Thesiger and the Seven Dials.

2            "Battle Commences"            Chris Sweeney           Chris Chibnall            15 January 2026

In a flashback to 1920, it is revealed that Lord Caterham had been lured away to his death from an arranged meeting with an inventor, Dr Cyril Matip. An unknown woman attempts to steal Matip's formula from him, killing his sister in the process. In turn, Matip shoots the woman dead. Back in 1925, Bundle confronts the man following her, who turns out to be Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard. He urges her to end her investigation but she ignores him, persuading Gerry's colleague Bill Eversleigh to take her to the Seven Dials, a seedy London nightclub. There, Bundle spies on a meeting of a mysterious secret society, disguised by clock masks. George Lomax, the Foreign Office Undersecretary, is to host a weekend gathering at which Matip will be invited to sell his invention to the British government. The details are secret, but Bundle flatters Lomax into disclosing that Matip has invented a revolutionary metal-strengthening formula. Bundle confides in Jimmy and Loraine, and Bundle and Jimmy inveigle invitations. Over dinner, Matip demonstrates that his formula has made a pocket watch bulletproof. That night, while Battle and his officers keep watch outside, and Bill and Jimmy keep watch inside, Bundle sneaks out, and is caught by Battle. The house is woken by a commotion, and Jimmy is found unconscious and bleeding from a bullet wound in the arm.

3            "The Finger Points"   Chris Sweeney           Chris Chibnall            15 January 2026

Jimmy explains that he was shot by an intruder. Matip is discovered in bed, sedated with the same drug that had killed Gerry; his safe has been opened and the formula removed. Battle takes charge, and Bundle impresses him with her deductive skills. Loraine arrives unexpectedly and, after making an excuse to leave the living room, flees with Matip's formula and the watch. She boards a train, pursued by Bundle, Jimmy, and Bill. Cornered, she surrenders the watch and the formula to Bill. Jimmy, revealed to be working with Loraine, shoots Bill, who is saved by the watch. Bundle deduces that Jimmy had wounded himself, allowing Loraine time to drug Matip and steal the formula. Subduing Jimmy, Bundle confronts the true mastermind who is waiting in a carriage at the front of the train: her own mother. Believing that the British government was responsible for her son’s death during the First World War, Lady Caterham had enlisted Jimmy and Loraine in a scheme to profit from the formula. Loraine had poisoned Gerry, fearing he knew too much, while Jimmy had arranged the clocks as a distraction and had shot Ronny. The conspirators are arrested, and Bundle is taken before the Seven Dials Society. Unmasking himself as their leader, Battle invites Bundle to take her late father's place in the organisation, which works covertly for the public good. She enthusiastically accepts.

 

The series titled The Seven Dials Mystery was announced by Netflix in April 2024, along with the fact that it would serve as the debut production for Orchid Pictures, with Chris Chibnall as the creator and the writer of the show. In June, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman were unveiled as the lead actors. Edward Bluemel joined the cast in July.In November 2025, the series was retitled Agatha Christie's Seven Dials.

 

Filming took place in the middle of 2024 in Bristol and Bath, with Badminton House standing in for The Chimneys, as well as Ronda, Spain.

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Sir Edwin Lutyens and Country Life, with Clive Aslet

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Henriques de Carvalho de Rio Maior.

 

The link to my family for generations Henriques de Carvalho,

Researched by a young architect and published online.

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Generations of landowners and "country squires". A few images of original large houses now surrounded by periphery.

ANTÓNIO SÉRGIO ROSA DE CARVALHO / Architectural Historian ( Jeeves / Tweedland )

The link to my family for generations Henriques de Carvalho,

https://www.oriomaiorense.com/henriques-de-carvalho

 

 The family in AI:

"Henriques de Carvalho de Rio Maior" refers to an ancient and prominent family from Rio Maior, Portugal, with historical records of important members such as landowners, religious (Father Luís Henriques de Carvalho) and local figures, with many generations baptized and married in the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, as documented on the website O Riomaiorense. Although there is not a single person "Henriques de Carvalho", the name identifies a family trunk with several well-known figures at different times, linked to the village of Rio Maior.

 

Who were they:

Members of the Nobility and Landlords: Several individuals with this name were landlords and figures in local high society, such as one who passed away in 1871.

Religious: These included the Reverend Father Luís Henriques de Carvalho, a figure mentioned in baptismal records, and other members connected to the Church.

Local Figures: The name appears in baptism, marriage and death records, indicating a continuous and influential presence in the community of Rio Maior.

Examples of Records:

Henriques de Carvalho was born in Cartaxo, baptized in Rio Maior in 1785, and married Gertrudes Leocádia Jesuína in 1812.

Another member was born in Rio Maior in 1823, baptized with an ecclesiastical godfather, as detailed on the website O Riomaiorense.

In summary, "Henriques de Carvalho de Rio Maior" is not a single individual, but rather the name of a family lineage with deep roots and long history in the Rio Maior region, with many members recorded in local historical documents, especially in the archives of the Church of Our Lady of the Conception.

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