They asked to get all the tapes to the hospital and they started watching them. They watched an episode that was on and, for some reason, it made them feel better. “I had a letter from a patient in a hospital once who said they felt better when they watch Poirot,” he says. Suchet says his fans are from age 7 to 90, recalling one letter that moved him to tears.
“If you went to a book shop, you wouldn’t say, ‘Do you have ‘Murder on the Orient Express?’ You would say, ‘What Poirot books do you have?’ If you say there is a new Poirot on TV, they’ll watch.” The actor believes Poirot has crossed international boundaries because people love the eccentric character. “All of a sudden, a young girl of about 20 comes up to me and says, ‘You are David Suchet, aren’t yo1967073056jaws just dropped, and so did mine.” “We were in Oslo and it was a very hot day, so I was wearing a hat, dark glasses and my children were side-by-side of me and my wife was on the other side of them,” says Suchet. He is always amazed when he is recognized in public. Suchet slicks back his hair, sports a curly mustache and wears padding for his role as Poirot. “Fans have written to us when it became clear there were no new ones coming through the pipeline and we had a huge reaction in terms of support. “We think they are timeless and classic,” says Fine. In fact, A&E approached the British producer, ITV, about doing more Poirots. “There are a very small handful of mysteries which I consider the blue-chip stock of the mystery world because they have stood the test of time because the actors who played the lead roles have become identified with those characters,” says Delia Fine, executive producer for A&E. Though the Poirot series originally aired on PBS’ “Mystery!,” A&E has been airing repeats since 1993 and it has proven a good fit for the cable network. (This summer, A&E is scheduled to air another Poirot mystery, “Lord Edgeware Dies.” If both films fare well, A&E plans to produce more.) David had finished what he was doing and was ready to do some more.”Įastman chose “Ackroyd” because he wanted the series to return with a famous title to make sure fans knew it was an original. Can we have some new ones?’ Everything was right. “What did take place is that the British broadcaster and the American broadcaster came and said, ‘We have had enough of reruns. Producer Brian Eastman came up with the idea of having Poirot find the narrator’s journal and reading it as a voice-over.Įastman, who has produced all the Poirot mysteries, says the series never really ended, just “the gap between those last ones and this just got a bit extended” because both he and Suchet were involved in other projects.
A key role in the novel is that of the narrator, making for a difficult adaptation to TV.
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