It looks like The Catch has failed to catch on. The ABC TV series has been cancelled after two seasons. The defacto series finale airs tonight.Created by Kate Atkinson, Helen Gregory, and Jennifer Schuur, the drama follows a game of cat and mouse between private investigator, Alice Vaughan (Mireille Enos), and the man she loves, the elusive con artist, Benjamin Jones (Peter Krause). The cast also includes Jay Hayden, Jacky Ido, Rose Rollins, Sonya Walger, Elvy Yost, and John Simm.Read More…...
- 5/12/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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Within the crowded field of British detective shows, Case Histories truly stands out as one of the very best contemporary dramas in recent years. It’s not as gloomy as Vera, not as gory as Luther, and it lacks the frivolity of Midsomer Murders. What it does offer is a realistic central character played brilliantly by Harry Potter bad-guy Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie (Isaacs) is broody but he’s positively jovial when compared with Wallander. He’s something of a lady’s man and could be described as Scotland’s answer to Jim Bergerac only with a penchant for cigarettes rather than booze. Brodie has his demons and he’s not immune to the odd cock-up but he’s a good guy at heart and he usually unravels the perplexing mysteries that land in his lap.
Case Histories ran for two seasons each comprised of three feature length mysteries.
Within the crowded field of British detective shows, Case Histories truly stands out as one of the very best contemporary dramas in recent years. It’s not as gloomy as Vera, not as gory as Luther, and it lacks the frivolity of Midsomer Murders. What it does offer is a realistic central character played brilliantly by Harry Potter bad-guy Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie (Isaacs) is broody but he’s positively jovial when compared with Wallander. He’s something of a lady’s man and could be described as Scotland’s answer to Jim Bergerac only with a penchant for cigarettes rather than booze. Brodie has his demons and he’s not immune to the odd cock-up but he’s a good guy at heart and he usually unravels the perplexing mysteries that land in his lap.
Case Histories ran for two seasons each comprised of three feature length mysteries.
- 3/18/2015
- by Edited by K Kinsella
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost three years since Case Histories season one aired on PBS. A second season of the very popular detective show premiered in the UK last summer and it finally makes its long awaited Us debut this week with the release of the second season on Acorn DVD.
Case Histories is set in Edinburgh, Scotland and is based on the Jackson Brodie novels written by Kate Atkinson. The central character is a private eye with a colorful past who struggles to make ends meet by taking on a wide variety of investigative work. Brodie is played by Harry Potter villain Jason Isaacs — sans the blonde wig. For someone so often cast as a bad guy, Isaacs actually does very well in this part. He’s not the most engaging or energetic bloke you’ll ever find but he’s persistent, loyal...
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost three years since Case Histories season one aired on PBS. A second season of the very popular detective show premiered in the UK last summer and it finally makes its long awaited Us debut this week with the release of the second season on Acorn DVD.
Case Histories is set in Edinburgh, Scotland and is based on the Jackson Brodie novels written by Kate Atkinson. The central character is a private eye with a colorful past who struggles to make ends meet by taking on a wide variety of investigative work. Brodie is played by Harry Potter villain Jason Isaacs — sans the blonde wig. For someone so often cast as a bad guy, Isaacs actually does very well in this part. He’s not the most engaging or energetic bloke you’ll ever find but he’s persistent, loyal...
- 7/13/2014
- by Edited by K Kinsella
He's become a familiar face in Us television drama, but Jason Isaacs has returned to home shores for a second series of BBC One's detective drama Case Histories - based on the best-selling novel series by author Kate Atkinson.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Isaacs reveals how it felt to play the show's lead Jackson Brodie again after two years away, his plans for the future and whether a third series of Case Histories is on the cards...
Case Histories first aired in 2011 - was it just your busy schedule that meant we've had to wait for series two?
"Yeah, I went to America to make a different television series [NBC's Awake] and made that for a long time, then made some films, and then when they wanted to make [series two], to be honest, I said no, because I was living in America with my wife and my kids are in school…
"But it was my missus who said,...
Speaking to Digital Spy, Isaacs reveals how it felt to play the show's lead Jackson Brodie again after two years away, his plans for the future and whether a third series of Case Histories is on the cards...
Case Histories first aired in 2011 - was it just your busy schedule that meant we've had to wait for series two?
"Yeah, I went to America to make a different television series [NBC's Awake] and made that for a long time, then made some films, and then when they wanted to make [series two], to be honest, I said no, because I was living in America with my wife and my kids are in school…
"But it was my missus who said,...
- 5/26/2013
- Digital Spy
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After what seems like an eternity, Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter) is returning to BBC1 in a new three part series of Case Histories. The Edinburgh based crime drama is based on books by the novelist Kate Atkinson. Isaacs resumes his role as private eye Jackson Brodie while his co-stars in the new series include TV funny woman Victoria Wood.
As season two begins, Brodie is brooding about a botched investigation into a kidnap case. However, he has very little time to reflect on his own shortcomings before a new case involving kidnap, police corruption and child abuse lands on his doorstep. The precise broadcast details have yet to be revealed but Case Histories will air on BBC1 during the week of May 18 – 24.
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After what seems like an eternity, Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter) is returning to BBC1 in a new three part series of Case Histories. The Edinburgh based crime drama is based on books by the novelist Kate Atkinson. Isaacs resumes his role as private eye Jackson Brodie while his co-stars in the new series include TV funny woman Victoria Wood.
As season two begins, Brodie is brooding about a botched investigation into a kidnap case. However, he has very little time to reflect on his own shortcomings before a new case involving kidnap, police corruption and child abuse lands on his doorstep. The precise broadcast details have yet to be revealed but Case Histories will air on BBC1 during the week of May 18 – 24.
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- 5/3/2013
- by Edited by K Kinsella
TV viewers in the U.K. will once again get the chance to see actors Michelle Asante and Zawe Ashton in their respective supporting roles on the second series broadcasts of ITV's Monroe and BBC's Case Histories for the upcoming television season. Asante reprises her role on medical drama Monroe as medical assistant Kitty Kelly, alongside lead actor James Nesbitt. It's been described by some as the British version of U.S. series House, MD, but fans of Monroe would likely beg to differ. Adapted from Kate Atkinson’s novels, Case Histories is a Ruby Film and Television production for BBC One through BBC Scotland. Ashton's humorous turn as secretary...
- 9/24/2012
- by Emmanuel Akitobi
- ShadowAndAct
"Whenever I've won an award or been nominated for an award, I had known the day the ink was drying, and it's always the script," says Jason Isaacs. The actor has two chances for Emmy attention this year: he starred in the PBS miniseries "Case Histories" as well as NBC's drama "Awake." "Case Histories," which premiered last June in the UK and in October in America, is based on thee novels by Kate Atkinson and follows the investigations of Jackson Brodie (Isaacs), a police inspector-turned-private eye. Though it will compete as a miniseries at the Emmys, the drama is set to return with more episodes later this year. "Awake," however, struggled to find an audience despite the praise of critics and was officially canceled by NBC on May 11; its last episode airs on May 24. On the series, Isaacs plays Det. Michael Britten, a Los Angeles homicide detective caught between two...
- 5/16/2012
- Gold Derby
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Acorn Media, the company that brought North America its first British TV streaming service have just released the summer’s break out detective hit Case Histories on DVD. The show is based on a series of books by author Kate Atkinson in which private eye Jackson Brodie attempts to solve other people’s mysteries while getting his own complex personal life back on track. The show stars Harry Potter villain Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie and it is written by Life on Mars co-creator Ashley Pharoah.
The three stories in the series were first broadcast in the UK earlier this summer and each story was spread across two action packed episodes. PBS Masterpice theatre edited the six episodes into three but fans of British TV will be pleased to hear...
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Acorn Media, the company that brought North America its first British TV streaming service have just released the summer’s break out detective hit Case Histories on DVD. The show is based on a series of books by author Kate Atkinson in which private eye Jackson Brodie attempts to solve other people’s mysteries while getting his own complex personal life back on track. The show stars Harry Potter villain Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie and it is written by Life on Mars co-creator Ashley Pharoah.
The three stories in the series were first broadcast in the UK earlier this summer and each story was spread across two action packed episodes. PBS Masterpice theatre edited the six episodes into three but fans of British TV will be pleased to hear...
- 11/18/2011
- by admin
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You could watch the excellent 'Case Histories' (Sunday, PBS Masterpiece, check local listings) just to see Jason Isaacs play an Edinburgh detective very well, but this mystery import offers a host of other pleasures.
The thing is, Masterpiece's 'Case Histories,' which adapts a trio of Kate Atkinson's popular Jackson Brodie novels over the course of three weeks, can't be neatly filed away in the "mystery" category. As is the case with Atkinson's bestselling novels, this thoughtful and well-paced program ranges from the subversive to the sad without losing focus on the emotions of the complex people at the center of the story. Its frequently light tone can turn on a dime to tragedy, and the fact that this version of 'Case Histories' pulls off those transitions so deftly is a minor miracle.
"There is a bit of magical misdirection going on,...
You could watch the excellent 'Case Histories' (Sunday, PBS Masterpiece, check local listings) just to see Jason Isaacs play an Edinburgh detective very well, but this mystery import offers a host of other pleasures.
The thing is, Masterpiece's 'Case Histories,' which adapts a trio of Kate Atkinson's popular Jackson Brodie novels over the course of three weeks, can't be neatly filed away in the "mystery" category. As is the case with Atkinson's bestselling novels, this thoughtful and well-paced program ranges from the subversive to the sad without losing focus on the emotions of the complex people at the center of the story. Its frequently light tone can turn on a dime to tragedy, and the fact that this version of 'Case Histories' pulls off those transitions so deftly is a minor miracle.
"There is a bit of magical misdirection going on,...
- 10/13/2011
- by Maureen Ryan
- Aol TV.
Jason Isaacs will return to BBC One in 2012 for two feature-length Case Histories. The Jackson Brodie private investigator series is based on the novels of Kate Atkinson. Earlier this year, the drama pulled in strong figures for the broadcaster, averaging 5.3 million for its six-episode run in June. The first of the two new films will be based on Atkinson's Started Early, Took My Dog novel from 2010, reports Broadcast. "It's incredibly exciting to have Jason Issacs back as the complex and compulsive Jackson Brodie," said BBC executive producer (more)...
- 10/13/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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After an exciting summer spent with Marple, Poirot and Zen, PBS Masterpiece Mystery Theatre returns to U.S. screens next Sunday with the another seven episodes of British intrigue and murder. The network which has been re-running old Inspector Lewis episodes during August will air four all new stories featuring the Oxford based sleuth. However, slotted between the new shows will be encore showings of Your Sudden Death Question on September 11 and Falling Darkness on 2 October.
Lewis warps up on 9 October with The Gift of Promise which will be followed by three stories featuring private eye Jackson Brodie (Jason Issacs) who will be making his PBS Masterpiece Mystery debut. Case Histories is set in Edinburgh and is based upon the novels by Kate Atkinson that feature Brodie. The show as shown in...
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After an exciting summer spent with Marple, Poirot and Zen, PBS Masterpiece Mystery Theatre returns to U.S. screens next Sunday with the another seven episodes of British intrigue and murder. The network which has been re-running old Inspector Lewis episodes during August will air four all new stories featuring the Oxford based sleuth. However, slotted between the new shows will be encore showings of Your Sudden Death Question on September 11 and Falling Darkness on 2 October.
Lewis warps up on 9 October with The Gift of Promise which will be followed by three stories featuring private eye Jackson Brodie (Jason Issacs) who will be making his PBS Masterpiece Mystery debut. Case Histories is set in Edinburgh and is based upon the novels by Kate Atkinson that feature Brodie. The show as shown in...
- 8/29/2011
- by admin
Jason Isaacs has suggested that the BBC is "on the fence" about his drama Case Histories. The show, based on Kate Atkinson's novels, starred Isaac as private investigator Jackson Brodie. Isaacs admitted to Digital Spy that he is not sure whether Case Histories will return in the future. "I don't know actually," he said. "If you want to, start tweeting the BBC, but I don't know. "Case Histories I loved doing, (more)...
- 7/21/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
The star of the BBC's Case Histories on being a reluctant sex symbol, his need to help people – and how he hopes Mel Gibson will find some peace
'I am not a sex symbol," says Jason Isaacs, fixing me with those dreamy blue eyes. Well, that's not what everybody else is saying. The Observer's Euan Ferguson wrote that Isaacs has "won his promotion to officially approved national lust object". He's apparently right up there with Colin Firth and Daniel Craig, thanks to his performance as soulful, damaged and yet stirringly buff private detective Jackson Brodie in BBC1's Case Histories, which concludes tonight.
Think of that moment in last night's episode when Brodie woke up in his hospital bed scarred, amnesiac and yet pleasingly barrel-chested after trying to drag a collapsed old lady out of her car that had crashed on to the Aberdeen-Edinburgh main line. You can stop now.
'I am not a sex symbol," says Jason Isaacs, fixing me with those dreamy blue eyes. Well, that's not what everybody else is saying. The Observer's Euan Ferguson wrote that Isaacs has "won his promotion to officially approved national lust object". He's apparently right up there with Colin Firth and Daniel Craig, thanks to his performance as soulful, damaged and yet stirringly buff private detective Jackson Brodie in BBC1's Case Histories, which concludes tonight.
Think of that moment in last night's episode when Brodie woke up in his hospital bed scarred, amnesiac and yet pleasingly barrel-chested after trying to drag a collapsed old lady out of her car that had crashed on to the Aberdeen-Edinburgh main line. You can stop now.
- 6/20/2011
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
This week's news in the arts
Private detectives may usually work in, well, private – but their shady shenanigans have this week been thrust into the limelight. On Tuesday, the News of the World apologised to actor Sienna Miller for having paid detective Glenn Mulcaire to intercept her phone calls. Yesterday, it was alleged that detective Jonathan Rees had targeted Tony Blair and Kate Middleton on behalf of News International.
Entirely coincidentally, a private investigator has loomed large on the small screen this week: Case Histories, the BBC six-parter drawn from Kate Atkinson's bestselling thriller, stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie, police officer turned Pi and classic tough-nut-with-a-heart. Brodie doesn't tap phones, but he does spend a lot of time running around with his top off. It's the sort of detective work pioneered by Tom Selleck in the 1980s: his Magnum, Pi sported a series of daringly navel-grazing Hawaiian print shirts.
Private detectives may usually work in, well, private – but their shady shenanigans have this week been thrust into the limelight. On Tuesday, the News of the World apologised to actor Sienna Miller for having paid detective Glenn Mulcaire to intercept her phone calls. Yesterday, it was alleged that detective Jonathan Rees had targeted Tony Blair and Kate Middleton on behalf of News International.
Entirely coincidentally, a private investigator has loomed large on the small screen this week: Case Histories, the BBC six-parter drawn from Kate Atkinson's bestselling thriller, stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie, police officer turned Pi and classic tough-nut-with-a-heart. Brodie doesn't tap phones, but he does spend a lot of time running around with his top off. It's the sort of detective work pioneered by Tom Selleck in the 1980s: his Magnum, Pi sported a series of daringly navel-grazing Hawaiian print shirts.
- 6/8/2011
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
Jason Isaacs has admitted that he is "bored senseless" by many detective dramas on television. The actor will play private detective Jackson Brodie in new BBC drama Case Histories, based on the Kate Atkinson novels. "It's more about the people and the characters," Isaacs told TV Choice. "Kate Atkinson who writes the books is bored senseless by the technical stuff and so am I." He continued: "I mean, there's a place for CSI and stuff like that, but it's much more interesting to see what people are hiding and what it shows about them." (more)...
- 5/31/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
A Kate Atkinson novel is usually so intricately constructed that even naming the incident that kicks off the story would unfairly spoil potential readers. Atkinson, who won the Whitbread Award for her novel Behind The Scenes At The Museum, has seemingly stumbled into a mystery series of four books, all featuring private detective Jackson Brodie, a man of tortured past and slightly less tortured present. His goal: combing England to find missing women, the better to make up for the loss of his sister long ago. Started Early, Took My Dog isn’t as good as Case Histories, the first ...
- 4/21/2011
- avclub.com
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