I remember when this beautiful series was typical of A&E. Now Dawg, the bounty hunter is their claim to fame. Don't get me wrong, he's not all bad but the network has really nosedived in quality since this series was made.
share[deleted]
I agree, they have moved a lot of their better programs to their other chanel Biography. This is where i found Murder She Wrote, and Nero Wolfe as wll as Sherlock Homes and Midsummer Murders.
shareNero Wolfe is a superb series. I am glad to know it is being shown somewhere. There are other marvelous series that called A&E home in the past - Poirot, Midsummer Murders, Touch of Frost, plus, plus, plus.
A&E has fallen past the sidewalk, into the gutter and is now fast approaching the drain. I don't know why they haven't changed the name of the network because most of what they have isn't art or entertainment anymore.
Nero Wolfe was one of my favorite shows, I love the atmosphere and how the actors played the characters to perfection.
...World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones ~ Albert Einstein
[deleted]
I can't beleive they cancelled this series. It is far superior to anything shown on tv these days. It was ahuge mistake by A & E.
Golden Age Mystery fans:
http://jdcarr.com/forum/
It was stupid of them to cancel Nero Wolfe, it's the only mystery series produced outside the realm of the BBC (Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, etc) who are usually the home of mysteries based on novels, well ones that have any staying power.
shareIt's a common misconception abroad that all quality UK TV programmes are made by the BBC. Miss Marple (the Joan Hickson version) WAS the BBC, but Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War, Touch of Frost, Jeeves and Wooster, Cadfael, Inspector Morse and Lewis for example are/were all made by ITV companies.
shareLest any current reader be confused, I'll point out that Sherlock (starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman) is also a BBC show -- but it premiered a few years after the above post was written. The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes was indeed from ITV.
As another who found the Nero Wolfe series, among others to be among the best things on television, I find it rather ironic that the "Arts & Entertainment Network" used to produce and air quality program, a step-up from he usual bland sitcoms, but now they've surrendered to airing programs that make said sitcoms almost welcome. Totally fake and staged "reality" shows seem to rule the airwaves these days. And A&E needs to rename themselves before they're sued for false advertising - their programs are neither "art" nor "entertainment." I guess BBCA is the last bastion of quality programming, and even it's beginning to have some inane programming like Ramsey's Kichen Nightmares...
share[deleted]