News about Marc Warren

Magic formulas must exist for successful TV shows, but actors and writers have yet to find a foolproof spell. Instead, they keep falling back on the classics, remaking favourite shows in the hopes that lightning will strike twice. Here we examine eight classics and compare them to their remakes - some are better than the original, some are more popular but equally good, and at least one of them is a horrible clunker.

When they shot the new ITV series of Van Der Valk, Marc Warren and Maimie McCoy were met with adamant resistance from outraged locals. When the production was screamed at by vandals and villagers in a quiet village in the Netherlands, the two actors were shooting scenes for season three.' When tensions reached boiling point after four days, Marc, who plays Commissaris Piet Van der Valk, and Maimie (Inspecteur Lucienne Hassell), were relieved.

Although the Van Der Valk (pictured right: Marc Warren and Maimi McCoy) revival featured detective tropes, there was still plenty of fun to be had, according to Kathryn Flett (left). According to her, the scheme involved a series of Spinoza-inspired murders that followed after an alternative community was coerced to vote against unscrupulous property developers after losing a court suit against unscrupulous property developers.

ALISON BOSHOFF: Prince Charles and Camilla are Strictly Come Dancing superfans, but plans to host an episode in Buckingham Palace appear to have fallen apart. It's just not going to be feasible this year, barring a miracle. Rather, the royal couple have been booked in to attend the filming of one of the shows at Elstree either in person or via video conference. I have been told that there has been a lot of back and forth about new concepts and different options, but the fact is that it is unlikely to be possible to pull off an episode in the Palace in the timeframe.' If we can't do it this year, the opinon is that we will do it next year.'

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The messiest divorce in history, between India and Pakistan, has killed thousands of people and created two new nuclear superpowers. Extramarital sex was one of the primary causes of the deadly break-up in so many divorces. Partition In Colour (C4) makes an even more dramatic argument. Lady Edwina Mountbatten, Prince Charles' great-unt, is depicted as a woman whose ferocious sex drive changed the world map. Following India's independence from the British Empire, her red-hot affair with the country's most influential man has shattered any chance of keeping the country united. Within days of their first meeting, Louis Mountbatten, the Viceroy of India, and her lover, Congress chief Pandit Nehru, were sleeping together. She was 45 years old when he was 57.