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Benidorm Is Murder
Who's in it
Cast
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The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Benidorm Is Murder actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Benidorm Is Murder reads strongest on Tension, Cliffhanger Intensity and Serialized.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Former detective Dennis Crown has swapped the chaos of the UK for a quieter life running a bar in Benidorm. But when tourists start turning up dead, he's reluctantly drawn back into detective work-egged on by his barmaid Rosa, a crime drama superfan. With Dennis's real-world experience and Rosa's encyclopaedic TV knowledge, each episode sees the duo tackling a new murder in paradise, whilst trying to remain on the right side of the local Spanish cops.
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The craft
Key Crew
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Direction
- Simon DelaneyDirector
- Dermot BoydDirector
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