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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (TV series)

2024 British mystery thriller TV series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (TV series)
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is a British mystery thriller television series based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Holly Jackson, adapted by Poppy Cogan, directed by Dolly Wells, and developed by Moonage Pictures and the German public broadcaster ZDFneo for BBC Three. The series, consisting of six episodes, covers events from the first book, and it was released for streaming on 1 July 2024 on BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom, followed by its terrestrial premiere on BBC Three on 10 July. It was released internationally on Netflix on 1 August 2024.

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In November 2024, it was renewed for a second series.

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Premise

Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers) is not satisfied that the killing of a local schoolgirl has been investigated sufficiently and takes matters into her own hands, producing her EPQ on the topic.[2]

Cast and characters

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  • India Lillie Davies as Andie Bell
  • Rahul Pattni as Sal Singh
  • Jackson Bews as Daniel Da Silva
  • Kamari Loyd as Josh Amobi
  • Matthew Chambers as Jason Bell
  • Annabel Mullion as Rosie Hastings
  • Adam Astill as Toby Hastings
  • Orla Hill as Ruby Foxcroft
  • Matthew Khan as Dylan
  • Oliver Wickham as Jesse Walker
  • Georgia Lock as Isla Jordan

Guest

  • Georgia Arron as Emma Hutton
  • Jessica Webber as Nat Da Silva
  • Thomas Gray as Howie Bowers
  • Ephraim O.P. Sampson as Jake Lawrence
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Episodes

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Production

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In September 2022, the project was announced as a BBC Three television adaptation of the Holly Jackson novel A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, produced by Moonage Pictures.[3] Dolly Wells is a director on the project from a script by Poppy Cogan, alongside Zia Ahmed, Ajoke Ibironke and Ruby Thomas. It is produced by Florence Walker, and executive producers include Matthew Read, Matthew Bouch and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures, and Lucy Richer and Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, along with Wells, Holly Jackson and Cogan.[4]

Despite the executive producer Frith Tiplady stressing that the first series has a real end,[5][6] it was renewed for a second series on 20 November 2024, which will cover events from the second book, Good Girl, Bad Blood. Jackson and Cogan will be returning for the screenplay, while Myers and Iqbal are set to reprise their roles.[7]

Casting

In June 2023, production started with Emma Myers and Zain Iqbal cast into the lead roles of Pip and Ravi.[8][9]

Filming

Filming took place around Bristol and Somerset. Locations include the Redcliffe Caves,[10] the Avon Valley Railway car park,[11] Redland,[12] Redmaids' High School, Westbury-on-Trym,[13][12] and Axbridge.[14][12] Filming on the second series took place in the final week of April 2025 in Axbridge, Somerset.[15]

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Release

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder was released for streaming on 1 July 2024 on BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom[14][16] and in Ireland,[17] Stan in Australia,[18] and ThreeNow in New Zealand.[19] A terrestrial broadcast on BBC Three began on 10 July 2024,[16] with two episodes being broadcast per week.[20] The series was released in Germany on 30 August 2024 on the ZDFmediathek service, while ZDFneo will broadcast two episodes per week beginning from 8 September 2024.[21] On 22 April 2024, Netflix announced that the series would be released on its platform on 1 August 2024.[22]

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Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of 39 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "A frothy series that carries off the classic murder mystery with a light touch, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder's checks all the boxes for a sweetly satisfying binge."[23] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 69 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[24]

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