Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. We’re hoping to do it in television,” Nora Zuckerman said. Columbo must go undercover to recover some of the pieces, solve some murders to get some others, and all the while trying to figure out what Krutch might be. I mean, Rian already did it in the movies. “I’m just hoping we’re making murder mystery stories cool again. It is spooky and fun and sinister and subversive and super creative, so I had a great time revisiting all of that.”

“I would encourage people to dip into that as well. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. “The other thing I’ll mention that I watched that is not necessarily in the murder mystery genre, but was really informative, illuminating, and inspiring, is I went back, and I watched a lot of ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents,'” Lilla Zuckerman said. 'Columbo' Undercover (TV Episode 1994) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. “It’s incredibly, totally different, but the murder at the top of a ‘Luther’ episode is its own little movie in some way.” “I love a British show called ‘Luther’ that has a lot of fans and in some ways, it’s a classic howcatchem, but done in such a different way,” Nora Zuckerman said. To hear this and more conversations with your favorite TV and film creators, subscribe to the Toolkit podcast via Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify, or Overcast.īut the construction of “Poker Face” episodes, which begin with the audience watching a murder (or in some cases what seems like a murder) from one particular vantage point before Charlie stumbles into solving it, also draws from more recent entries in the detective genre.

Listen to our entire interview with Nora and Lilla Zuckerman below. For the sake of fighting your “Poker Face” withdrawal, the Peacock series’ showrunners Nora and Lilla Zuckerman shared the shows that influenced the series’ take on the howcatchem on a recent episode of IndieWire’s Tooklit podcast. With the first season over, there won’t be much like it on television for a while - at least until Season 2 premieres.īut that doesn’t mean there wasn’t more like it on television at one point. “ Poker Face” is a throwback in both format and tone - an episodic murder mystery of the week series in an age of serialized storytelling that focuses on overlooked pockets of America as opposed to fantastical realms and post-apocalyptic what-ifs.

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