She offers them £10,000 to recover the necklace by that evening. Frank and Luella attend Lady Bede's ball that evening with Sebastian undercover to solve the mystery. Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators was one of the BBC’s biggest daytime triumphs in years, picking up impressive viewing figures and becoming the best-performing BBC Daytime content on iPlayer in history. Frank and Luella find Shaw tied up in the basement when they receive news that Forbes-Allen has been murdered. Frank finds Diana dead in the gift shop, victim of a robbery. Shakespeare & Hathaway ten-episode series three began on Monday 3rd February 2020 at 2.15pm on BBC One, with each episode available to watch on iPlayer shortly after broadcast. One-time offer for new email registrants. She calls her version Juliet and Romeo, and her character does not die. Mark Benton and Jo Joyner return as BBC Daytime's unlikely private investigators. How have the plays been staged and interpreted from Shakespeare's time to now? Events take an odder course when the left hand is cut from the corpse in the Mortuary. Frank and Luella are employed by allotment holders threatened with eviction by Lady Mortimer after coming under the influence of Gerald Fitzallan following her husband's death. It compared the show favourably with other, grittier fare on offer in television drama schedules. The films combine interviews with actors, directors, and scholars, along with visits to key locations, clips from some of the most celebrated film and television adaptations, and illustrative excerpts from the plays staged specially for the series at Shakespeare's Globe in London. This is a real gem hidden in the daytime schedules. Created by Paul Matthew Thompson, Jude Tindall. The BBC revealed that the 10-part third series of Shakespeare and Hathaway will be shown next year, with a fourth 10-part series to be screened in 2021. The investigation is hampered by Martin Mariner claiming to be Frank's uncle. Frank and Luella are employed by Portia Montgomery, a solicitor, to find evidence that her client is innocent of a violent assault during a quad bike theft, at a poultry farm, that he was part of. Frank thinks that Janice is the killer, but the police tell her that Janice could not have killed Clive, although they arrest her for her involvement in Clive's bogus business. The band fell apart and disbanded a second member, Bushy, dying a few years later. Thankfully, the main cast are all back for more – including Jo Joyner as Luella Shakespeare, Mark Benton as Frank Hathaway, Patrick Walsh McBride as Sebastian Brudenell and Roberta Taylor as Gloria Fonteyn. Minola's daughter, Kate, is a member of Mortal Coils and her father is keeping her at home a virtual prisoner because his other daughter, Bianca, will marry the wealthy Lucas De Boulay. During lunch, when all the staff and residents are in the dining room, Penelope falls to her death from the roof. [7] In swinging 60's Melbourne, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. [11], Reviewing the first episode of the second series in 2019, i newspaper praised the "easy chemistry" of Joyner and Benton, as well as "a strong supporting cast [that] includes nice turns from Roberta Taylor and Patrick Walshe McBride in particular".