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Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift review – TV detective adaptation is occasionally lethal

Richmond theatre, LondonGuy Unsworth ups the jokes in a play that is loving towards its prime-time TV source and hugely entertaining for fansBritish touring theatre at the moment is often a case of watching the TV detectives. Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts is in Sheffield this week and Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile reaches Northampton next week, with both shows on the road well into spring. DSI Roy Grace and DI John Rebus investigated deaths live last year.The latest telly cop to be let out of the box is DCI Barnaby who, in Midsomer Murders, has occupied ITV prime time for 28 years, an age that residents of the Hampshire-adjacent village here often need a lot of luck to reach. Continue reading...

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