Here's a mystery only a detective could solve: Why would HBO, a network that specializes in edgy brilliance, greenlight a series that would seem too fluffy even for Lifetime? Not even Precious ...

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is a TV series about Mma Precious Ramotswe, who starts Botswana’s first female-owned detective agency. The show revolves around her as she solves cases with a unique ...

There's mystery in the air. Or, more to the point, there's mystery on the air. And we're not talking about the police-procedural, forensic-heavy, gore-soaked, street-level type of mystery that ...

Anthony Minghella and Richard Curtis are making a series based on Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books for the BBC. A two-hour pilot film will be aired by the BBC and HBO, ...

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency will return to screens next year as a six-part series, the BBC has announced. A feature-length TV pilot, directed by the late Anthony Minghella, aired in March to ...

I suppose it's a sign of travelling too much to wake up in a static bed and think: 'We must be flying through an area of smooth air – no turbulence.' That's what I think now, on coming to, and then I ...

HBO‘s “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” has two comely and charming stars in Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose, but the most prominent player in the dramedy may be its host country, Botswana. Scott ...

Maun, a remote town in northern Botswana, has that very special feel that you pick up in places that are on the edge of something grand and wild and unspoiled. You feel that at their air strips, with ...

This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed “The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is ...

Here's a mystery only a detective could solve: Why would HBO, a network that specializes in edgy brilliance, greenlight a series that would seem too fluffy even for Lifetime? By Andrew Wallenstein, ...

Beyond its bittersweet note as one of the final projects from the late Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" is distinguished by an ambience that doesn't look or ...