Murdoch Mysteries Returns to Acorn TV on February 10
Acorn TV’s fan-favorite period detective drama, Murdoch Mysteries, returns Monday, February 10 in the U.S. with new Season 18 episodes dropping weekly on Mondays.
Set in Toronto in the early 1900s during the age of invention, Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson, Casino Jack, Baking All the Way) uses radical forensic techniques to solve some of the city’s most gruesome murders.
The new season, consisting of 22 episodes, including the series’ 300th episode, will see a bevy of notable guest stars such as Countess Luann de Lesseps, an original cast member of The Real Housewives of New York City, and Siobhan Murphy (Cross, Danger Force).
Award-winning actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (The Mandalorian, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Kim’s Convenience) joins the cast as Inspector Albert Choi, who brings a whole new perspective to Station House #4.
This season, Murdoch and his team investigate brand new cases, including the killing of a man during a battlefield re-enactment, the veracity of a ‘Missing Link’ skull, a murder at a Charles Dickens convention, threats to a silent film star throwing Murdoch into a cinematic adventure and the foiling a theft of the world’s largest ruby.
The season also explores social issues of the time, including a worker’s strike at a factory, an early instance of low-income housing, competing public hydro projects and immigrants trying to purchase land in the ‘paradise’ wilds of Canada.
Returning cast members include Hélène Joy (Durham County) as Dr. Julia Ogden, Thomas Craig (Coronation Street, The Paradise Club) as Inspector Thomas Brackenreid, Jonny Harris (Still Standing) as Constable George Crabtree and Lachlan Murdoch (Copper) as Constable Henry Higgins-Newsome.
There’s also Daniel Maslany (Impulse, My Dead Mom) as Detective Llewelyn Watts, Shanice Barton (Race, Degrassi: The Next Generation) as Violet Hart, Arwen Humphreys (Rookie Blue) as Margaret Brackenreid and Clare McConnell (Star Trek: Discovery) as Effie Crabtree.
Murdoch Mysteries is based on Maureen Jennings’s popular Detective Murdoch series of novels and premiered in Canada in January 2008. It is executive produced by Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Yannick Bisson, Simon McNabb and Peter Mitchell, who also serves as showrunner, and produced by Jeremy Hood and Julie Lacey.
Murdoch Mysteries is developed and produced by Shaftesbury in association with CBC, ITV Studios, and UKTV, and with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, the IPF’s COGECO Television Production Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, and Ontario Creates. Shaftesbury Sales Company and ITV Studios hold worldwide distribution rights for the series.
