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Later this week, Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators is returning for its second season on Ovation. The cable channel also has plans to air seasons three and four in the fall. The show has yet to be renewed for a fifth season on BBC One in the UK.
Starring Jo Joyner, Mark Benton, and Patrick Walshe McBride, the UK comedy-mystery series follows former Detective Inspector (DI) Frank Hathaway (Benton), rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare (Joyner), and assistant Sebastian Brudenell (Patrick Walshe McBride) as they solve cases together.
Ovation revealed more about the series in a press release.
Ovation TV, America’s premier arts network, will begin airing four seasons of the beloved British detective series Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators next month. Starring Mark Benton as the hard-boiled Frank Hathaway and Jo Joyner as his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare, the series was created by Paul Matthew Thompson (Vera, Doctors) and Jude Tindall (Father Brown, Doctors). Two episodes will air back-to-back every Saturday night during Ovation TV’s Mystery Alley programming destination. Season One premieres on Ovation TV on Saturday, June 24 at 7pm ET, while Season Two premieres on Saturday, July 29 at 7pm ET.
Bride-to-be Luella Shakespeare believes her future husband Clive Brenton (Nigel Whitmey) is unfaithful and approaches shabby private eye and ex-policeman Frank Hathaway. Joining with Frank and his assistant Sebastian (Patrick Walshe McBride), she uncovers Clive’s shady past and proves her own sleuthing skills. The unlikely pair forms a partnership as they investigate extramarital affairs, murderous magicians, abducted au pairs, and more in Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwickshire. Despite their constant disagreements, the duo makes a good team in this action-packed, fun-filled comedic drama.
What do you think? Are you a fan of this British mystery series? Do you plan to watch seasons two, three, and four on Ovation?
This show is much better than our American shows. Our script writers should learn from this show. Super a perfect 10. Does anyone read our comments?
Saw it on Ovation. Loved it and immediately checked out all four seasons on DVD from local library. Very much hoping for a fifth.
If you like quaint, no brains required, silly, fun daytime TV that is a step above soap opera, then you will like this.
Think Midsomer murders , where nothing can possibly be real and the acting deliberately dumbed down for a wide audience.
Unlike M&M I consider S&H to be a comedy. More like Monk, where it’s based in a murder msytery of some sort, but everything around it involves comedy. M&M is more mystery with some comedy bits.
I can empathise with that view but both are rather absurd in their lack of seriousness that makes them both enjoyable.