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Genre | Mystery thriller [1] |
Created by | Poppy Cogan |
Based on | A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
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Producer | Florence Walker |
Running time | 40–48 minutes |
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Network | BBC Three |
Release | 1 July 2024 – present |
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is a British mystery thriller television series based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Holly Jackson, adapted by Poppy Cogan, directed by Dolly Wells, and developed by Moonage Pictures and the German public broadcaster ZDFneo for BBC Three. The series, consisting of six episodes, covers events from the first book, and it was released for streaming on 1 July 2024 on BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom, followed by its terrestrial premiere on BBC Three on 10 July. It was released internationally on Netflix on 1 August 2024.
In November 2024, it was renewed for a second season.
Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers) is not satisfied that the killing of a local schoolgirl has been investigated sufficiently and takes matters into her own hands, producing her EPQ on the topic. [2]
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No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |||
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1 | "Episode 1" | Dolly Wells | Poppy Cogan | 1 July 2024 | |||
Pippa 'Pip' Fitz-Amobi is entering her final year of school and hopes to go to university, and for the subject of her EPQ she decides to investigate the local 2019 disappearance of Andie Bell from five years earlier. A popular pupil, Andie was dating classmate Sal Singh when she disappeared, with police suspecting him of being responsible for her murder. Before he could be charged Sal allegedly confessed to killing Andie and then took his own life. However Pip believes that Sal was innocent and is determined to find out the truth. After initially being rebuffed by Sal's brother Ravi, she begins her investigation by interviewing Sal's friend Naomi Ward, the older sister of Pip's best friend Cara, whose father Elliot is an English teacher at their school. Naomi reveals that Sal had an alibi for the night of Andie's disappearance, though doesn't elaborate after their conversation is interrupted. Following an interview with Sal's friend Max Hastings, who claims Naomi is lying to protect Sal, she approaches Ravi again. After she tells him that she believes Sal is innocent, Ravi shows Pip Sal's phone, indicating that someone else appears to have sent the confession text from his phone due to the difference in grammar. | |||||||
2 | "Episode 2" | Dolly Wells | Poppy Cogan | 1 July 2024 | |||
Now working with Ravi, Pip turns her attention to Andie's two best friends, Emma Hutton and Nat Da Silva. Interviewing them, she finds out that Andie had a secret, second, older boyfriend. Taking a break from the investigation, Pip goes camping with her friends. During the trip she finds an anonymous warning left in her bed telling her to stop digging. Returning from the camping trip, Pip and Ravi deduce from Andie's social media photos that shortly before her disappearance, she and Nat had had a falling out, which they presume was related to nude photos of Nat having been leaked and suspect that Andie may have been responsible. Pip and Ravi confront Nat who denies hurting Andie and discloses that Andie was involved with Max. Pip goes back to interview Max, finding an intimate photo of Andie in his room, however he claims that he found it at school, that his relationship with Andie was not romantic, and that in fact Andie dealt drugs and he was one of her customers. | |||||||
3 | "Episode 3" | Dolly Wells | Ruby Thomas | 1 July 2024 | |||
Pip decides that she must track down the drug dealer Andie was dealing for. To do so she must find the location of a Calamity party, an infamous secret teen party supposedly full of drugs and sex. Later, attending the party with her friends Cara and Lauren, she manages to find the drug dealer, who reveals that Andie kept a secret burner phone along with a drug stash in a stuffed rabbit. Afterwards Pip narrowly escapes an unwanted sexual encounter with another partygoer whom she'd misled during her undercover ruse. Back at home she receives a threatening text message that tells her to stop investigating. The next day an impromptu conversation with Andie's sister, Becca Bell, discourages her from continuing her investigation, but then deciding that she needs to find the rabbit and phone, Pip breaks into Andie and Becca's house with Ravi, where they are almost caught by Becca and Nat's brother, policeman Dan Da Silva. | |||||||
4 | "Episode 4" | Tom Vaughan | Zia Ahmed and Poppy Cogan | 1 July 2024 | |||
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5 | "Episode 5" | Tom Vaughan | Poppy Cogan and Ajoke Ibironke | 1 July 2024 | |||
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6 | "Episode 6" | Tom Vaughan | Poppy Cogan | 1 July 2024 | |||
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In September 2022, the project was announced as a BBC Three television adaptation of the Holly Jackson novel A Good Girl's Guide to Murder , produced by Moonage Pictures. [3] Dolly Wells is a director on the project from a script by Poppy Cogan, alongside Zia Ahmed, Ajoke Ibironke and Ruby Thomas. It is produced by Florence Walker, and executive producers include Matthew Read, Matthew Bouch and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures, and Lucy Richer and Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, along with Wells, Holly Jackson and Cogan. [4]
Despite the executive producer Frith Tiplady stressing that the first series has a real end, [5] [6] it was renewed for a second series on 20 November 2024, which will cover events from the second book, Good Girl, Bad Blood. Jackson and Cogan will be returning for the screenplay, while Myers and Iqbal are set to reprise their roles. [7]
In June 2023, production started with Emma Myers and Zain Iqbal cast into the lead roles of Pip and Ravi. [8] [9]
Filming took place around Bristol and Somerset. Locations include the Redcliffe Caves, [10] the Avon Valley Railway car park, [11] Redland, [12] Redmaids' High School, Westbury-on-Trym, [13] [12] and Axbridge. [14] [12] Filming on the second series took place in the final week of April 2025 in Axbridge, Somerset. [15]
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder was released for streaming on 1 July 2024 on BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom [14] [16] and in Ireland, [17] Stan in Australia, [18] and ThreeNow in New Zealand. [19] A terrestrial broadcast on BBC Three began on 10 July 2024, [16] with two episodes being broadcast per week. [20] The series was released in Germany on 30 August 2024 on the ZDFmediathek service, while ZDFneo will broadcast two episodes per week beginning from 8 September 2024. [21] On 22 April 2024, Netflix announced that the series would be released on its platform on 1 August 2024. [22]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 82% of 39 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.3/10.The website's consensus reads: "A frothy series that carries off the classic murder mystery with a light touch, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder's checks all the boxes for a sweetly satisfying binge." [23] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 69 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [24]
Die Serie ist ab dem 30. August in der ZDFmediathek verfügbar und läuft ab Sonntag, 8. September 2024, ab 20.15 Uhr, sonntags in Doppelfolgen in ZDFneo.