News Hercule Poirot BBC Is Bringing Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot to Television The network won the rights to the iconic mystery solver in a competitive situation By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on May 21, 2026 Credit: 20th Century Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: 20th Century Studios Hercule Poirot will soon be returning to the small screen. Today, Deadline broke the news that the BBC is adapting Agatha Christie’s stories featuring the mustachioed Belgian who, he’ll be sure to tell you, is the greatest detective in the world. Deadline also reports that the BBC won the rights to Poirot via a competitive bidding process, and that the network plans to release at least three seasons, with the first season scheduled to come out in the second half of 2027.  Benji Walters, whose previous credits include authoring episodes on British shows like Obsession, Noughts + Crosses, The Leopard, and Code of Silence, is writing the scripts. What mysteries unfold in those scripts are unknown; we don’t have details yet on which stories from Christie’s 33 novels and 51 short stories featuring Poirot that the first season will adapt. What’s also unknown is who the BBC will cast to play Poirot. Several actors have played the character in the past, including Kenneth Branagh in three recent films (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and A Haunting in Venice), John Malkovich in The ABC Murders, and, of course, David Suchet in the ITV series that ran for a quarter of a century. Who do you think will play the new Poirot? Reactor staff have some ideas, including Toby Jones. We likely won’t have to wait too long, however, to get the official answer, as the production plans to film in Liverpool and northwest England this summer. [end-mark] The post BBC Is Bringing Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot to Television appeared first on Reactor.