MURDER, SHE WROTE 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2020

[Music] when you think of great fictional detectives of our time only a few names come to mind and one of them is jessica fletcher yes the retired english teacher turned amateur mystery writer deserves to be remembered right up there with sherlock holmes for 12 seasons angela lansbury brought the character to life in the fictional town of cabot cove solving some serious crime while panning mystery stories and riding her bike in her spare time at a time when red shows like miami vice and magnum pi ruled the ratings murder she wrote held its own becoming one of the most important shows of the 1980s and 90s you're watching how they changed and here are a few things you might not know about the show that defied expectations angela lansbury was pissed off at the tv rose being offered to her before murder after years of high-profile parts and critical acclaim in the theater angela lansbury was in her late 50s and ready to tackle a steady television row unfortunately instead of being flooded with interesting lead roles on big series she said she was constantly looked at to play the maid or the housekeeper in some ensemble piece leaving her to get in the dame's own words really pissed off after voicing her displeasure she was soon approached with two potential solo series one being murder she wrote which grabbed her attention because of its focus on a normal country woman becoming an amateur detective after meeting with the producers and writers it was only a matter of time before lansbury agreed to the row and began their 12th season run the show took a shot at france in its final season in 1995 cbs made a bold move after airing on sunday since 1984 murder she wrote moved to thursdays at 8 00 pm for its 12th and final season going head to head against mad about you and friends over at nbc on a night dominated by younger years lansbury was at a loss i'm shattered she told the los angeles times what can i say i really feel very emotional about it i just felt so disappointed that after all the years we had sunday night at 8 suddenly it didn't mean anything it was like gone with the wind maybe not so coincidentally during that last season of the series there was an episode titled murder among friends were a tv producer is killed in her office after planning to get rid of a member of the cast of a fictional television show called buds complete with its coffee shop setting and snarky ripper tea butts was not so subtle stab at friends coming at a time when murder she wrote was placed right against the hip-rating's juggernaut putting the murder mystery aside for a moment fletcher takes plenty of jabs at butts throughout literally rolling her eyes at the thought of six twenty-somethings becoming a hit because they sat around talking about their sexuality in every episode the writing was on the wall as murder she wrote was being phased out by cbs by the end of 1996 but lansbury made sure to go down swinging [Music] jessica fletcher holds a guinness world record for most prolific amateur sleuth though guinness recognizes that agatha christie's miss marple has been on and off screen longer since 1956. fletcher has actually gotten to the bottom of more cases with 264 episodes and four tv movies on her belt the shares fictional town would have been the murder capital of the planet quiet upper class new england coastal towns aren't usually known for their murder count but cabot cove maine is a grisly destination indeed in fact if you look at the amount of murders per the population it would have the highest rate on the planet according to bbc radio 4. with 3560 people living in the town and 5.3 murders occurring every year that comes out to 1490 murders per million which is 60 percent higher than that of honduras which only recently lost its title as the motor capital of the world it also estimated that in total about two percent of the forks in cupboard cave end up murdered some fans think fletcher was a serial killer the whole time that statistic leads us right into our next thought isn't it a little suspicious that fletcher kept stumbling upon all these murders we know that cabot cove is a fairly sleepy town but the murder rate rivals a scorsese movie and this one person a suspicious novelist and amateur detective always seems to get herself mixed up in the juiciest cases some people think there's something sinister about the wealth of cases fletcher writes about in her books it's because she's the one doing the killing all alone this theory has gained traction with fans over the years and it helps explain the coincidental nature of the show murders aren't just exclusive to fletcher and cabot cove they follow her around when she's on book tours on trips out of town or while writing the script to a vr video game for a company whose owner just so happens to get killed while fletcher's around could jessica fletcher have such an obsession with murder mysteries that she began to create her own was life and cupboard cove too boring for a violent sociopath did she decide to take matters into her own hands after failing to think of original book ideas we'll never know but it puts the whole series into a very different light lansbury was not happy about a proposed reboot despite its inimitable style modashee road isn't immune to hollywood's insatiable reboot age and in 2013 plants were put in motion to modernize the show for a new generation nbc's idea was to cast octavia spencer as a hospital administrator who self-publishes her first mystery novel and starts investigating real cases lansbury was not too pleased by the news i think it's a mistake to call it murder she wrote she told the hollywood reporter in november 2013 because murder she wrote will always be about cabot cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place and also enjoyed jessica fletcher who is a rare and very individual kind of person so i'm sorry that they have to use the title murder she wrote even though they have access to it and it's their right when the plug was pulled on the series lansbury said she was terribly pleased and relieved by the news adding that i knew it was a terrible mistake jean stapleton turned down the lead role of jessica fletcher it's impossible to separate angela lansbury from her role as jessica fletcher now but she wasn't the network's first choice for the role all in the family's edith bunker actress jean stapleton was originally approached about playing fletcher but she turned it down stapleton cited a combination of wanting a break after all the family's lengthy run and the fact that she wasn't exactly thrilled with how the part was written and the changes she wanted to make weren't welcome despite not being thought by the original ideas for fletcher stapleton agreed that lansbury was just right for the part fletcher's escapades have lived on in books and video games for anyone who didn't get enough of fletcher during murder she wrote's original run there are more plenty more dead bodies to make your way through author donald bain has written 45 murder mystery novels starring fletcher all of which credit fletcher as their co-author the books sport such titles as killer in the kitchen murder on parade and margaritas and murder not even cancellation can keep cupboard cove safe apparently on top of that two point-and-click computer games were released based on the show in 2009 in 2012 both games feature fletcher solving multiple murders just like on the show but don't expect to hear the comforting voice of angela lansbury as you wade through the dead bodies only her likeness appears in the game not her voice lansbury would begin to reprise the role when recently asked about her iconic role by the sunday post lansbury admitted that she'd be interesting murder she wrote come back in some form i was in genuine tears during my last scene lansbury said jessica fletcher has become so much a part of my life it was difficult to come to terms with it being all over having said that there have been some two-hour specials since we stopped in 1996 and i wouldn't be surprised if we got together just one more time and that's all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with friends take care

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Id: Cc8pmNH-Hcw

Length: 10min 41sec (641 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 25 2020