The Madame Blanc Mysteries is a case in point. Created and written by former soap actors Sally Lindsay and Sue Vincent, this fluffy crime drama is back for its fourth series while Channel 4’s gritty and critically lauded (rightly so) Get Millie Black, written by the Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, was swiftly deserted by audiences and ruthlessly pushed from the prime time slot. Make of that what you will.
Sue Holderness as Judith Lloyd James, Steve Edge as Dom Hayes, and Robin Askwith as Jeremy Lloyd James (Photo: Clapperboard/Channel 5)
In the new series opener, in which a company chief executive is discovered hooded and seemingly dead in a rowing boat with coins placed over his eyes, our titular amateur sleuth, ex-pat Cheshire antiques dealer Jean White (Sally Lindsay), is allowed to sit in on police interviews and question suspects. And when Jean believes that “les flics” (French slang for the police) have arrested the wrong person, she naturally heads off to investigate it herself.
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So what have viewers come for? Well, there’s some agreeable light comedy performed by reassuringly familiar actors. Sue Holderness (Marlene in Only Fools and Horses) and former Confessions of… stud Robin Askwith play the most overtly comic characters, Judith and Jeremy. Their aristocratic lineage is signalled by forever calling each other “darling” in an exaggerated fashion. And in the great British sitcom tradition, being nobs means they have the piss taken out of them. It’s Judith and Jeremy who discover the body while out jet-skiing (“a great way to get over a hangover, darling”).
Sue Vincent as Gloria and Tony Robinson as Patrick (Photo: Clapperboard/Channel 5)The Madame Blanc Mysteries is escapism of the most undemanding variety, a sort of Place in the Sun with added murder and a side-order of Benidorm. But I’m not really interested in repeatedly escaping to this colony of ex-pat Brits – mainly because I don’t really believe in them or the France they purportedly inhabit.
‘The Madame Blanc Mysteries’ continues next Thursday at 9pm on 5
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