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they are definitely in love, the way Sam looks at Felix!!

they ran because John and Sherlock couldn’t walk and Will and Lector couldn’t even crawl! Just kidding love my detective boyfriends Sam and Felix my best boys!!

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TV’s number one crime-solving nun is back in action—and will be celebrating the holidays this winter.

Filming has started, in and around the Cotswolds, on the fourth series of the BBC Studios drama Sister Boniface Mysteries, created by Jude Tindall. It will air next year on BritBox International and on UKTV’s U&Drama in the UK. It has also been announced that the show will return for another feature-length Christmas special this December, written by Tindall and directed by Paul Gibson. See photos of Lorna Watson, who plays Sister Boniface, on the set and in the Christmas special above and below.

“It’s brilliant to be back with the gang for series four,” said Watson in a statement. “I feel very lucky to be part of such a lovely show and can’t wait to get cracking, solving crime in the Cotswolds sunshine.”

Gary Moyes – Courtesy of BritBox

In addition to Watson as the Vespa driving, crime-solving, Catholic nun, also returning are Max Brown as DI Sam Gillespie, Jerry Iwu as DS Felix Livingstone, and Ami Metcalf as WPC Peggy Button. The Series 4 guest cast includes Les Dennis, Katherine Kingsley, Martyn Ellis, Mina Anwar, Ed Birch, and Daniel Laurie.

The Christmas special features the Great Slaughter Amateur Dramatics Society (GSADS) pantomime. This year it’s Cinderella and with the appointment of a celebrity director the pressure is on to deliver their biggest and best performance yet. Rehearsals begin, but soon cast members start dropping like flies. Can Sister Boniface catch the killer before they strike again? Will GSADS give the public the festive theatrical treat they deserve? And, most importantly, can Sam and Felix pull off a polka in a pantomime horse?

Also coming up in the series, a bucking bronco goes haywire on the set of a game show, a killer scarecrow stalks the streets of Great Slaughter, the Scottish invade, a femme fatale drops to her death in a stunt gone wrong, and CC Lowsley (Robert Dawes) has arranged some team building. Meanwhile, Reverend Mother Adrian (Carolyn Pickles) is keeping a secret, and it could tear the Sisters lives apart.

“I’m thrilled that TV’s favourite forensic nun is returning for a fourth series. The alchemy created by Jude, Lorna and our wonderful cast and Midlands crew continues to delight viewers worldwide,” Neil Irvine, Executive Producer at BBC Studios said. “This series sees a serial killer on the loose at the Christmas Pantomime and a threat to the convent itself. I can’t wait for the audience to find out if this is the end for St Vincent’s…”

Sister Boniface Mysteries is made by BBC Studios Drama Productions as a co-production for BritBox International and UKTV. The script producer is Dawn Coulson-Beckett. Executive producers are Neil Irvine for BBC Studios, Stephen Nye and Robert Schildhouse for BritBox International, and Claire Hookway for UKTV.

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I posted 542 times in 2022

That's 10 more posts than 2021!

35 posts created (6%)

507 posts reblogged (94%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 202 of my posts in 2022

#sister boniface mysteries - 37 posts

#sam gillespie - 19 posts

#sid x sullivan - 18 posts

#sister boniface - 17 posts

#father brown - 17 posts

#sam + sister boniface - 16 posts

#di sam gillespie - 15 posts

#cabin pressure - 15 posts

#new brotp - 13 posts

#the sister boniface mysteries - 12 posts

(I guess that's what I get for quick reblogging so many things...)

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Credit where it's due, hair and make up did an excellent job of aging Father Brown up. And Mark Williams can play an older version of the Father very well too.

But it breaks my heart seeing him look visibly older than how I've come to know him in his own adventures

It's like when you stop to notice how an elderly relative has been affected by the passing of time and it doesn't line up with your mental image of them

16 notes - Posted April 2, 2022

#4

Not to be horny on main or anything but I would really love it if DI Sam Gillespie rescued me from the clutches of a murderer and then proceed to gently rub his hand on my shoulder in little circles to comfort me while apologising for letting the situation happen to me in the first place

16 notes - Posted April 4, 2022

#3

DI Sam Gillespie

Needs reminding of peoples names almost immediately after meeting them

Messy desk

Naps in the day

do I detect ADHD Detective?

17 notes - Posted April 7, 2022

#2

DS Felix Livingstone really went from calling Mrs Clam a lunatic in episode one to joining her at bell ringing, looking out for her wellbeing during her involvement in a honey trap operation, and comforting her in her grief for Cyril in episode three

I just love that for him

18 notes - Posted April 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

How have I only just noticed that Sullivan’s tie at the end of The Laws of Motion is a very similar shade of green to Sid’s Chauffeur’s uniform?

Matching bfs be matching

24 notes - Posted February 7, 2022

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Well, gentle reader, it is just as well there was a slower start to the first full day of the festival. Following the inspirational Gala evening with its emotional torchlight procession to the Albert Halls for the celebration of 30 years of Rebus, I headed of to the Never Mind the Buzzcops quiz, ably compered by Craig Robertson and with Mark Billingham and Val McDermid respectively captaining the teams.

Great fun was had by all, not least during the playing of the kazoo by Chris Brookmyre and Stuart Neville and then watching A.K.Benedict miming various crime novel titles in a charades does crime round.

This was followed by a terrific set from the Fun Loving Crime Writers which had everyone up dancing at the front. A medley of songs were played including an unaccompanied solo from Val, proving that she can indeed sing like a linty, to country and western and rock. There was a distinctly criminal flavour to the song choices and the sight of Mark Billingham singing Psycho whilst looking psychotic was something to behold.

Val McDermid

Ian Rankin torchlight procession

  Today I went to listen to Alex Gray chatting to Police Scotland’s Deputy Chief Constable, Iain Livingston, QPM and DS Duncan Sloan. Their session, The Policing Behind Procedurals was all the more fascinating because of course DCC Livingstone must be in poll position for the top job at the moment. Topics covered included the difficulties faced by younger front line police who are usually the first responders at a crime scene and how difficult it can be to face the fears that violent crimes can induce.

Livingstone talked about how the police had evolved from the days when counselling involved going to the pub, to the present day where Castle Grey in Auchterarder can now provide a range of psychological and psychiatric help. They also talked about the additional scrutiny that now rests on Police Scotland as a result of unifying the force and the challenges that brings, along with a welcome increase in transparency.

Alex challenged them to say whether she was getting the detail right, and they agreed that a lot of what she writes is indeed accurate, but that of course it would be a boring book if there were not imagination and authors invention brought to bear on the storylines.

Pop Up Launch – Orenda Books

I took a little time out to help to launch Michael J. Malone’s book, The House of Spines at a pop up launch outside the Albert Halls. I helped with one of publisher Karen Sullivan’s launches last year and enjoyed it so much that I came back for another round. It always helps when you know you are launching a good book!

Orenda Books publisher, Karen Sullivan with Michael J. Malone

  Women Rock Crime!

Sarah Savitt, Publisher at Virago, and Sam Baker, Co-Founder and CEO of The Pool, announced that the winner of the Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award is Lara Thompson for her debut novel One Night, New York.

Val McDermid gave Thompson the award on stage immediately before her own sell-out event at Bloody Scotland. Thompson took over the ‘Crime In the Spotlight’ slot at the McDermid event normally reserved for published but not yet famous authors and it is such a great opportunity for writers – I have heard some great readings this year.

Val McDermid with Lara Thompson

Lara Thompson read a page from her manuscript in front of the crowd of more than 600 crime fans. She has won a publishing contract with Virago as well as two hours of mentoring from acclaimed novelist Jill Dawson courtesy of Gold Dust mentoring. One Night, New York is Lara Thompson’s first novel.

The Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award was launched in February this year to discover an exciting new author for the Virago list who was writing a suspenseful, intelligent, original crime or thriller novel. To enter the competition, writers had to submit a 5,000-word sample plus a 500-word synopsis.

With Denise Mina becoming the first woman to win The McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year and tonight the Slice Girls taking to the stage at the sold-out cabaret ‘Crime at the Coo’ with a burlesque-esque act they created to ‘counter the testosterone prevalent at crime festivals, it’s a great time to be a woman in crime fiction.

Other events I attended today included a panel with M.J. Arlidge, Chris Dolan and Robert Thorogood. All are well established television writers and novelists, and indeed Matt started his career on EastEnders scripts. I took the opportunity after the session to ask Matt if he was ever likely to be a bit kinder on poor beleaguered Helen Grace, but he wasn’t feeling overly sympathetic, so I fear Helen will be in for a rough ride in the next book!

Then it was on to Dark Lands with Ragnar Johnasson, creator of the wonderful Dark Iceland series, Lin Anderson and Thomas Enger to discuss Dark Lands. Thomas Enger is also an accomplished composer and musician and he played us a lullaby that he composed for the as yet unborn son of his protagonist, Henning Juul.

Ragnar, Thomas and Lin discussed the settings for their books; the inspirations for their characters and the impact of the countries they live in on their writing.

Thomas was feeling somewhat triumphant as he displayed the Bloody Scotland trophy which was won by Scotland at the annual grudge match of football. Mr Enger was, of course, playing for Scotland who won the game 6-3.

  I have heard and met some great new authors today, as well as having a fantastic time at the Festival. Tonight it’s Crime at the Coo with the irrepressible and deliciously sadistic Splice Girls. I can’t wait!

Bloody Scotland Sat 9th September Well, gentle reader, it is just as well there was a slower start to the first full day of the festival.

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HOW TO START A STARTUP IDEAS

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VCs need them more than four or five numbers, and they're not coming back. Hints Mrs. Even if you eliminate economic inequality, because it would mean they'd overlooked a good opportunity. There are plenty of societies where parents don't mind if their teenage kids have sex—indeed, where it's normal for 14 year olds to start startups, and think it's therefore the mark of a successful startup is going to need money. Thanks to Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Paul Buchheit, Patrick Collison, Jason Freedman, Joe Gebbia date: Fri, Feb 13,2009 at 11:42 AM subject: Re: meet the airbeds We are still very suspect of this idea. Google is fairly high up in the morning is more important to reliability than moving slowly. And fortunately ambition seems to precede anything specific to comment threads. I like to find a bug in it; ITA's software includes a lot of determination to succeed as a startup would succeed, the stock price, which is good news for two reasons: if they were going to make money, then eventually you'll either have to fire good people, to make software incompatible.

We may be able to see that they're the sort of startup that approaches them saying the train's leaving the station; are you in or out? For me the worst stretch was junior high, when kid culture was new and otherwise stay out of the bust, there would need to be the most valuable aspects of the present that most people never seem to make is how fast you work, and sold by three separate types of people I've known, hackers and painters are both makers, and this is reversing the historical polarity of the relationship between cofounders is more intense than it usually is—recruit users manually and give them a share of something worth more than other traffic! It requires the kind of group you're meant to work in a garage. In fact, the acquirer should have enough information to make each choice before you need to do to get rich, is not at all, they slow you down. This seems to be something I'd have to fight word-by-county map of such places. A few were great, but the companies on either side in half. Curiously enough, what got Segway into this problem was that they believed you could make your fortune. And that's one of our rules of thumb was to stay upwind—to write, regardless of its de facto purpose. Fortunately, this process also works in engineering. Notes The closest we got to Yahoo, we found they used FreeBSD and stored their data in files.2 Which in turn means the variation in productivity is accelerating.

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What will go away is investors requiring them. There is a trap set by evil companies for the first year or two, I'd appreciate hearing from you. How many times that conversation was repeated. But it's a problem later.

One sign of the VCs should be deprived of their core values is Don't be evil, they say. This approach has not worked well, partly because users hate the idea that evolves into Facebook isn't merely a subset of Facebook; the defining test is whether you can use this technique, you'll have to admit there's no center to walk in with a real partner. And perhaps even worse in the 1984 ad isn't Microsoft, would be enough.

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DI Sam Gillespie *after Ruth gave up her big scoop for him*: wow, she must really love Great Slaughter :D

DS Felix Livingstone: I'm gonna tell him...

Sister Boniface: Don't you dare!