We’re officially intrigued. <\/p>
Crime author extraordinaire Ian Rankin has a game show coming out soon and it\u2019s very much in his wheelhouse \u2013 it also sounds like an incredibly ambitious project.<\/p>\n
Murder Island is coming to Channel 4 in October and it will see members of the public become amateur detectives, who will compete to solve a crime and to build a case that will hold up in court. The show is set to be six episodes long, and it was filmed on the remote Scottish island of Gigha.<\/p>\n
It seems that at least some of its inspiration has come from Broadchurch, which Rankin says he binged during lockdown after being approached about making the innovative show. It seems the close-knit community feel and the twists and turns that Broadchurch had inspired the vibe that Rankin will be going for with Murder Island.<\/p>\n
Speaking about the new show and its challenges, Rankin admits that he was hesitant to take it on due to how many different scenarios he would have to plan for. \u201cIt\u2019s such a dangerous thing to try to do, it\u2019s mad! But it stretched me in all kinds of ways because this isn\u2019t normally the way I operate. It was a challenge but a really entertaining one, and it kept me sane in the first few months of the year when we were still in lockdown,\u201d he told this week\u2019s Radio Times<\/strong>.<\/p> Rankin also weighed in on the current trend of focusing on the perpetrator of the crimes rather than the victims, saying: \u201cYou can\u2019t go past a page of TV listings without coming across serial killers from history, \u2018The most evil person next door\u2019, that kind of stuff. I\u2019m very wary of focusing too much on the perpetrator and making them seem more charismatic than they are.<\/p>\n \u201cThat happens in fiction a lot, but in the real world, these people are usually sad, bland, ugly individuals. We shouldn\u2019t be spending too much time thinking about them \u2013 we should be focusing a little more on the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full interview in this week\u2019s Radio Times \u2013 out tomorrow. Murder Island is coming to Channel 4 in October. Want something else to watch? Check out our full TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0or visit our\u00a0Entertainment<\/a>\u00a0hub for the latest news.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n We’re officially intrigued. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4993,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/how-broadchurch-inspired-ian-rankins-new-high-concept-murder-mystery-game-show.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/how-broadchurch-inspired-ian-rankins-new-high-concept-murder-mystery-game-show-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/how-broadchurch-inspired-ian-rankins-new-high-concept-murder-mystery-game-show-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/how-broadchurch-inspired-ian-rankins-new-high-concept-murder-mystery-game-show.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/how-broadchurch-inspired-ian-rankins-new-high-concept-murder-mystery-game-show.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/how-broadchurch-inspired-ian-rankins-new-high-concept-murder-mystery-game-show.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/how-broadchurch-inspired-ian-rankins-new-high-concept-murder-mystery-game-show.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"We're officially intrigued.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/4992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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