Deja

BBC 1's latest drama commissions can hardly be accused of addressing market failure. The most-trumpeted is David Walliams starring in adaptations of Agatha Christie stories featuring married detectives Thomas and Prudence Beresford aka Tommy and Tuppence.

Walliams said (with my italics splitting the infinitive) “In bringing these thrilling stories to the screen, it is our ambition for Tommy and Tuppence to finally take their rightful place alongside Poirot and Marple as iconic Agatha Christie characters."

This slightly belittles LWT's 1983 take on the duo; a ten-part series called Partners in Crime, starring James Warwick as Tommy and Francesca Annis as Tuppence, still ticking along on ITV3 - cf 6.20am this morning...

The DVD was reissued in September last year, if Walliams cares to pick up a copy.