Murdoch Mysteries has its return date set! Ovation introduced the premiere date for season 16 of the historic drama sequence primarily based on the novels by Maureen Jennings. New episodes will arrive on February eleventh.
Starring Yannick Bisson, Hélène Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris, Lachlan Murdoch, Shanice Banton, Daniel Maslany, Arwen Humphreys, and Siobhan Murphy, the historic drama sequence follows a detective as he solves instances on the flip of the century in Toronto.
Ovation revealed extra in regards to the sequence’ return in a press launch.
“Next 12 months, Ovation TV, America’s premier arts community, airs the U.S. premiere of the sixteenth season of beloved detective sequence Murdoch Mysteries. Highlights of the brand new 24-episode season embrace an episode directed by Emmy winner Eric McCormack (Will & Grace), two episodes directed by sequence star Yannick Bisson, three episodes written by showrunner Peter Mitchell, and one episode written by Maureen Jennings, creator of the Detective Murdoch e-book sequence. Ovation TV will air the U.S. tv premiere of Murdoch Mysteries season 16 on Saturday, February 11 at 7:00pm ET.
As season sixteen begins, Detective Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) and Dr. Julia Ogden (Hélène Joy) are settling into life with child Susannah. His revolutionary time-saving gadgets are entertaining the toddler and have freed up time prompting Ogden to return to her girls’s clinic. But home calm and bliss is way from the truth for Murdoch’s associates. Constable George Crabtree (Jonny Harris) has left his betrothed, Effie Newsome (Clare McConnell), on the altar after a prophecy by his aunt foretells marrying her would signal her loss of life certificates. Brokenhearted, he endures the confoundment of Murdoch and Ogden and the wrath of Inspector Thomas Brackenreid (Thomas Craig). Constable Henry Higgins-Newsome (Lachlan Murdoch) presumes he bought chilly ft and used the curse as an excuse. But then he suspects Crabtree’s aunt might need ulterior motives and enlists Effie and Louise Cherry (Bea Santos) to search out out extra.
Nefarious goings on are additionally happening in Violet Hart (Shanice Banton) and Arthur Carmichael’s (James Graham) world. After her menacing father Maurice Majors (Roger Cross), appeared to extort her and her husband, in addition to threaten Brackenreid for a previous misdeed, he has apparently died. But has he? When a coffin shipped to New York arrives filled with grime and a corpse mysteriously rises from a pauper’s grave killing two males, Murdoch wonders how determined and wicked Hart is perhaps. Meanwhile, Detective Llewelyn Watts (Daniel Maslany) has gone lacking from work and Toronto, presumably together with his paramour Jack the butcher (Jesse Lavercombe) and his toddler Samuel. Brackenreid tracks him right down to New York to warn the lads that their home scenario is in jeopardy as a result of an odious personal investigator has been employed by the toddler’s grandparents. But whereas there, Brackenreid lets his defenses down and all of a sudden finds that not solely is Watts’ future in peril, so too is his personal.
Guest stars this season embrace Siobhan McSweeney, finest generally known as the acerbic nun on the Netflix hit Derry Girls, showing as Crabtree’s clairvoyant Auntie Oleander, Sean Cullen as Rudyard Kipling, Van Helsing’s Christopher Heyerdahl as a stoic Mennonite elder, and the return of fan favorites Peter Stebbings as ingenious entrepreneur James Pendrick and Peter Keleghan as intrepid, and infrequently annoying, spy Terrence Myers. Plus, there are particular appearances by International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield, Olympic champion Andre De Grasse, and famend historian Morgan Ross.
Murdoch Mysteries relies on Maureen Jennings’s standard Detective Murdoch sequence of novels and premiered in Canada in January 2008. Murdoch Mysteries is govt produced by Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Yannick Bisson, Hélène Joy, Paul Aitken, Simon McNabb, and Peter Mitchell, who additionally serves as showrunner, and produced by Jeremy Hood and Julie Lacey. Murdoch Mysteries is developed and produced by Shaftesbury, in affiliation with CBC, ITV STUDIOS Global Entertainment and UKTV, and with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, the IPF’s COGECO Television Production Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, and Ontario Creates. Shaftesbury Sales Company and ITV STUDIOS Global Entertainment maintain worldwide distribution rights for the sequence.”
What do you assume? Are you excited to listen to in regards to the return of this sequence?