Acorn TV Renews Agatha Raisin

AMC Networks’ Acorn TV has renewed the popular mystery series Agatha Raisin for a fourth season, with three feature-length episodes and a winter special.

Based on M.C. Beaton’s best-selling novels, the comic mystery series stars Ashley Jensen (Catastrophe, Extras, Ugly Betty) as a former high-powered London PR guru, who retired early to a small, picturesque village in the Cotswolds and found a second calling as a sassy private investigator. Season four will adapt four novels and will be available as 8×45-minute episodes or 4×90-minute TV movies.

Acorn Media International will distribute in most English-speaking territories and All3Media International will distribute in the rest of the world, including the U.K. and Australia. Free@Last TV is producing.

Jensen said, “I am overjoyed to be returning as Agatha Raisin. A role I love playing and a show that is very close to my heart. I am excited to see what’s in store for Agatha and her merry band of misfits in Series 4.”’

Catherine Mackin, managing director of Acorn Media Enterprises, said, “Acorn TV is thrilled to return to the beautiful Cotswolds with our Agatha Raisin family, including our wonderful ensemble cast led by Ashley Jensen and our partners at Free@Last TV, Company Pictures and All3Media. With the incredible source material of M.C. Beaton’s highly enjoyable novels, Agatha Raisin continues to be one of the most fun mystery series available and the most requested by our subscribers, so we’re excited to produce several new episodes.”

Barry Ryan, executive producer and creative director of Free@Last TV, noted, “It’s impossible to say how proud we are of our Agatha Raisin family and grateful that our show is going to a fourth series on Acorn TV. Agatha Raisin has plenty more stories to tell. We know that we are lucky to be able to tell them. It’s particularly poignant as we remember the creator M.C. Beaton and know that she would be overjoyed as well’.