Partners in Crime (UK TV series) commissioned by Ben Stephenson and Charlotte Moore for the BBC to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth. The adaptation was produced by Endor Productions in partnership with Agatha Christie Productions. David Walliams and Hilary Strong (Agatha Christie Group) approached Hilary Bevan Jones and Tom Nash (development producer) of Endor Productions with the idea of re-inventing the Agatha Christie characters Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Walliams liked the idea of a married amateur detective duo bickering over a dead body. Agatha Christie wrote stories featuring the Beresfords between 1922 and 1973, depicting Tommy and Tuppence from before they were married
Tuppence Middleton "Dickensian" (2015–16), playing Miss Havisham, and "War & Peace" (2016), in which she played Russian princess and villain Hélène Kuragina, and has been cast in the upcoming film adaptation "Downton Abbey". In 2010, she was nominated for the "London Evening Standard" Film Awards for Most Promising Newcomer. Tuppence Middleton was born on 21 February 1987 in Bristol, England, to Nigel and Tina Middleton. She was named "Tuppence" after the childhood nickname her grandmother gave to her mother. She was raised in Clevedon, Somerset, with older sister Angel and younger brother Josh (now frontman of heavy metal band Sylosis, and lead