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Towards Zero has us hooked. After all, there's nothing quite as satisfying as a good, old-fashioned murder mystery — and no one does it quite like Agatha Christie. The prolific author published 66 detective novels, many of which went on to become beloved on-screen adaptations. You probably count Murder on the Nile and And Then There Were None amongst your favourites of the genre. Well, a new Christie mystery has just hit our screens — and it's a good one.
BBC's Towards Zero is an adaptation of Christie's 1944 novel that sees the elderly Lady Tressilian inviting her ward to her seaside manor, Gull's Point. He both his former wife and his present wife along for the trip. Soon enough, her friend is killed — then, she's the next victim. Superintendent Battle, who appears in four other Christie novels, is called in to solve the case.
So, where is this seaside murder mystery filmed — and perhaps more importantly, can we please go?
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Burgh Island stood in for the exterior shots in the area surrounding the show's fictional Easterhead Bay Hotel. You might even spot this pretty spot in scenes set in Nice, France at the beginning of the show.
Burgh Island Hotel on Burgh Island is on the picturesque coast of the Devon. It stood in for Easterhead Bay Hotel, which Christie envisaged right in this part of the country. In fact, she actually wrote this and many other novels while living there. Devon is "where Agatha Christie grew up and spent a lot of time", said executive producer James Prichard to Radio Times. "It’s where an awful lot of the inspiration for these stories would have come from – they’re not all set there literally, but it's in her mindscape," he went on.
And the good news? You can go there too.
You might spot The Forum in Bath, which featured in a few interior shots throughout the show.
There are plenty of scenes set on the beach in Towards Zero. For scenes set at Saltcreek and Gulls Point, production set up camp at beaches in the villages of Bantham and Thurlestone in south Devon.
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This National Trust property near Bristol also served as Lady Tressilian's Gull's Point in Towards Zero. A Victorian Gothic Revival house, it's open to the public and features a richly decorated interior along with sprawling grounds.
This University of Bristol building stood in as the London apartment of Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen).
The nearby Frog Lane in Bristol featured in the exterior shots of Nevile's London street.
Production used the outside of Bristol Cathedral to double as Westminster's Royal Courts of Justice.
Meanwhile, the team headed to South Wales to film interior shots of the Courts of Justice.
Finally, the team used the wide open grounds of the Bath & West Showground to double as Wimbledon for the show.
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