''A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'' is a British mystery

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television series based on the 2019 novel of the same name by

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, adapted by Poppy Cogan, directed by Dolly Wells, and developed by Moonage Pictures and the German public broadcaster ZDFneo for BBC Three. The first series of the show consists of six 45-minute episodes covering the events of the first book. If the series is renewed, later series plan to cover the other two books. However, executive producer Frith Tiplady also stressed that the first series has a real end. The series was released for streaming on 1 July 2024 on

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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.

Premise

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

Cast and characters

Main

* Emma Myers as Pippa (Pip) Fitz-Amobi ** Kitty Anderson as young Pip * Zain Iqbal as Ravi Singh *

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as Cara Ward * Raiko Gohara as Zach Chen * Jude Morgan-Collie as Connor Reynolds * Yali Topol Margalith as Lauren Gibson *

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as Naomi Ward * Henry Ashton as Max Hastings *

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as Becca Bell * Mathew Baynton as Elliot Ward * Gary Beadle as Victor Amobi * Anna Maxwell Martin as Leanne Amobi

Recurring

* India Lillie Davies as Andie Bell * Rahul Pattni as Sal Singh * Jackson Bews as Daniel Da Silva * Kamari Loyd as Josh Amobi * Matt 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

Episodes

Production

In September 2022, the project was announced as a BBC Three television adaptation of the

novel '' A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'', produced by Moonage Pictures. Dolly Wells is set to direct 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.

Casting

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

Filming

Filming took place around Bristol and Somerset. Locations include the Redcliffe Caves, the

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car park, Redland,

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, Westbury-on-Trym, and Axbridge. Filming took place between July and September 2023.

Release

''A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'' was released for streaming on 1 July 2024 on

in the United Kingdom and in Ireland,

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in Australia, and ThreeNow in New Zealand. A terrestrial broadcast on BBC Three began on 10 July 2024, with two episodes being broadcast per week. 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. On 22 April 2024, Netflix announced that the series would be released on its platform on 1 August 2024.

Reception

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 69 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

References

External links

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