THE MADAME BLANC MYSTERIES
FRIDAY, 9PM, CHANNEL 5 DRAMA
There are ghostly goings-on aplenty in this year’s festive edition of Channel 5’s popular cosy crime drama The Madame Blanc Mysteries when antiques dealer and amateur sleuth Jean White checks in to a hotel with a spooky heritage!
The plot kicks off after flamboyant couple Judith and Jeremy (Sue Holderness and Robin Askwith) invite friends Jean (Sally Lindsay), Dom Hayes (Steve Edge), Gloria Beauchamp (Sue Vincent) and chief of police André Caron (Alex Gaumond) to join them on a short road trip from their home in the (fictional) French village of Sainte Victoire to Hotel Sanguinet to partake in a murder-mystery evening.
But the event goes horribly wrong when someone is fatally shot, and with several suspects all trapped together inside the property, can Jean work out whodunnit?
TV Times caught up with Sally, 50, who co-writes the show with Sue, and Steve, 51, to find out more…
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