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Jonathan Creek

April 2023

  • ‘We won’t be doing it again’ … Caroline Quentin and Alan Davies in Jonathan Creek.

    How we made
    ‘I put them in bed together just to get it over with’ – how we made Jonathan Creek

    ‘The BBC needed some persuading. Alan Yentob said: “What are we going to do about his hair?”’

April 2020

  • Alan Davies as Jonathan Creek and Caroline Quentin as Maddy Magellan.

    Lockdown culture
    My top tip for coping with coronavirus anxiety? Watch Jonathan Creek

    Alan Davies’s self-assured amateur sleuth and Caroline Quentin’s feminist writer take us back to a happy golden age of bad haircuts, landlines and denim

August 2019

  • Picture shows: Jonathan Creek (ALAN DAVIES). TX: BBC One, Thursday 1st January 2009 (c) BBC

    Jump the shark
    How Jonathan Creek went from geek in a duffel coat to boring besuited businessman

    Alan Davies solved improbable crimes with wit and flair. Before, erm, getting a job in advertising

December 2016

  • Lovely, silly wordplay … Alan Davies and Sarah Alexander in Jonathan Creek.

    TV review
    Jonathan Creek review – suitably silly, scary, arch and pleased with itself

  • A gloriously lurid tribute to the heyday of Hammer horror … Jonathan Creek.

    TV tonight
    Wednesday’s best TV: Jonathan Creek; James May: the Christmas Reassembler

August 2016

  • Alan Davies and Sarah Alexander, who are returning to Jonathan Creek.

    Jonathan Creek returns for 'spookiest ever' one-off episode

    Alan Davies returns as the deadpan detective in a one-off special, alongside Sarah Alexander and Warwick Davies

March 2014

  • Jonathan Creek

    TV & radio catch up guide
    Catch-up TV guide: from Jonathan Creek to Inside No 9

    Jonathan Creek | Veronica Mars | Fantastic Man: A Film About William Onyeabor | The Taste | Coronation Street: A Moving Story | Inside No 9

  • Jonathan Creek … has it gone all 'Columbo'?

    TV and radio blog
    How Jonathan Creek is inverting the English whodunnit

    Graeme Virtue: Creator David Renwick upset some fans of the detective drama by showing whodunnit (and how) near the beginning, rather than the end, of the latest episode – but it's so well written that it's still great fun watching Creek unravel the mystery

    • TV tonight
      TV highlights 07/03/3014

    • Andrew Collins: telly addict
      Jonathan Creek, Silk, Moone Boy, The Brits who Built the Modern World: TV review – video

    • Jonathan Creek review – 'An intricate machine with hundreds of pieces'

February 2014

  • Niall Ferguson presents The Pity of War

    TV tonight
    TV highlights 28/02/2014

    International Cricket: West Indies v England | Student Nurses: Bedpans And Bandages | Jonathan Creek | The Pity Of War | Edge Of Heaven | NCIS: Los Angeles | Stella | The Poisoner's Handbook

August 2013

  • Alan Davies

    Laughing stock: the week in comedy
    Alan Davies repays his debt to Margaret Thatcher

    Brian Logan: The Jonathan Creek star remembers how Thatcher's £40 per week saved him in the 1980s, while Aziz Ansari signs a giant book deal and John Cleese flogs face cream across the world

April 2013

  • the village john simm

    Observer TV reviews
    Rewind TV: The Village; Jonathan Creek; Game of Thrones – review

    The Village proved an antidote to Downton while Jonathan Creek was an all-star treat and Game of Thrones topped off a perfect week for drama, writes Euan Ferguson
  • Charles Dance is a man for austere seasons in Game of Thrones

    TV review
    Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek – TV review

    Stuart Jeffries: Family feuds, fire-breathing dragons, ruthless villains … what more could you want?

  • Jonathan Creek

    TV tonight
    TV highlights 01/04/2013

    Live Super League | Hairy Bikers' Best of British | Jonathan Creek | The Other Pompeii: Life and Death in Herculaneum | Broadchurch | Game of Thrones | The Men Who Built America | Mark Lawson Talks to Miriam Margolyes

March 2013

  • Jonathan Creek: Alan Davies with Sheridan Smith

    TV and radio blog
    Jonathan Creek returns – but what is the detective's appeal?

    Ben Dowell: Jonathan Creek's return to BBC1 this Easter after a three-year gap is good news, even if the plots often are outlandish nonsense

January 2013

  • Alan Davies

    Media interview
    Alan Davies interview: 'I'm like a fine wine. I'm maturing'

    Bruce Dessau: The Jonathan Creek actor on why comedians have become the new fall guys - and why he's returning to stand-up

December 2012

  • JONATHAN CREEK

    Alan Davies to return in Jonathan Creek special

    Actor to return as BBC1's detective-magician in a one-off 90-minute Easter special called The Clue of the Savant's Thumb. By Mark Sweney

November 2012

  • Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin in Jonathan Creek.

    Natalie Haynes's TV detectives
    Jonathan Creek: Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives #21

    Natalie Haynes: The magician-turned-sleuth is a modern-day Victorian gentleman detective – more about solving seemingly impossible puzzles than catching criminals

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