For those who don’t enjoy watching the big game, WXXI-TV offers a dramatic alternative – a marathon of Magpie Murders on Masterpiece, followed by the regular PBS Sunday night lineup.
Super Drama Sunday kicks off Sunday, February 8 at 1 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI app.
Binge all six episode of Magpie Murders, a beguiling mystery-within-a-mystery adapted from Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling book by the author himself. With a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, the plot of Magpie Murders revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway’s latest novel, with little idea of how it will change her life. Magpie Murders stars Lesley Manville (World on Fire, Phantom Thread, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) as editor turned amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and Tim McMullan (Patrick Melrose, Foyle’s War) as world-famous fictional detective Atticus Pünd.
Our Magpie Murders Marathon will be followed by new episodes of RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service (7p.m.), Miss Scarlet on Masterpiece “The Night Shift” (8 p.m.) All Creatures Great & Small on Masterpiece “Fixes” (9 p.m.), and Bookish “Such Devoted Sisters, Pt. 1.”
Photo: Lesley Manville as Susan Ryeland in Magpie Murders.