By Ed Power at The Telegraph. The BBC’s highest-rating daytime drama returns with its winning formula – bucolic village life plus homicidal naughtiness – firmly intact.
Criminal skulduggery and genteel English villages go together like Prince Andrew and sensibly-priced pizza chains. And it was back to that fantasy realm of redbrick boozers, apple-cheeked locals and violent crime that we returned for the ninth series of Father Brown (BBC One), in which Fast Show and Harry Potter star Mark Williams donned a collar and black shift to portray GK Chesterton’s eponymous sleuthing cleric….
