

Robert Johnson’s RLJ Entertainment, which operates the Brit-television Acorn TV service in the U.S., owns 64% of Agatha Christie Ltd. We couldn’t be happier to have Amazon as our U.S. and the scribe’s great-grandson - said Amazon has “obviously played a massive part in our book business over the past few years, and it is exciting to move with them onto Prime Video in the U.S.”Īdded WME-IMG partner Chris Rice, “The brand of Agatha Christie resonates around the world. James Prichard, chairman and CEO of Agatha Christie Ltd.

The revelation means that someone else in the family is a murderer.

In the tale, the Argyle family is disturbed to discover evidence that black sheep Jack Argyle did not, in fact, kill his mother a year before - a crime for which he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. The ensemble cast of “Ordeal by Innocence” includes Bill Nighy (“Love Actually,” “Pirates of the Caribbean”), Alice Eve (“Star Trek Into Darkness”), Ella Purnell (“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”), Matthew Goode (“The Good Wife,” “Downton Abbey”), Catherine Keener (“Get Out”), Ed Westwick (“White Gold,” “Gossip Girl”), Luke Treadaway (“Fortitude”), Eleanor Tomlinson (“Poldark”), and Morven Christie (“The A Word”).Īgatha Christie called “Ordeal by Innocence” one of her favorite books. “Ordeal by Innocence” reunites Agatha Christie Limited and Mammoth Screen with writer and executive producer Sarah Phelps, following two adaptations produced for BBC One: “And Then There Were None” in December 2015 and “The Witness for the Prosecution” in December 2016.
