Where to Watch Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
- ርልዪረAugust 27, 2025My wife and I love Shakespeare and Hathaway. We are American viewers .We have only just found out that this wonderful program is shown on daytime telly in Britain. And also the great show Moving On is shown in the afternoon there. Speaks volumes of the quality of television in the UK. There are few programs here in prime time as good. I digress. What is so special about this show then? The 3 lead actors. They have great chemistry together. Lu Shakespeare is one of the private investigators. She drives a little red Mini that her partner Frank Hathaway calls a hair dryer on wheels. Lu has a bubbly personality, always happy and smiling. She is the sweetest most feminine cop or detective character I've ever seen. Frank is the lovable portly male detective. Invaluable to the show is their assistant, Sebastian who is a trained actor that Frank and Lu use his acting abilities to go undercover to find information. His disguises and role plays are hilarious. The murder plots are secondary to the playful banter between Lu, Frank, and Sebastian. Another thing I like is neither Frank and Lu are portrayed as sleuth geniuses. Sometimes Frank solves it, sometimes Lu does and they sometimes stumble onto it. Also the show is set in Stratford Upon Avon and Shakespeare buffs would appreciate the lines from the Bard that are often quoted. The scenery is gorgeous. We have just finished the third series. The first two series were a tad better than the third. However the biggest flaw of the first 2 series was Inspector Christina Marlowe, the glum unsmiling nemesis of Frank and Lu. I groaned when she appeared, a dreadful character played by a wooden actress. Thankfully they got rid of her after Series 2. Series 3 was mostly good, and the writers seemed to be going more for comedy. Some of the slapstick from Frank was a bit cringe worthy. A couple shows from Series 3 were tedious. Now we are awaiting Series 4. I would like to see from Series 4 more scenes with Inspector Joe, the Frank hating full of himself cop. He is hilarious in his over the top arrogance. A new character from Series 3 is PC Viola. She seems to fancy Sebastian a bit and would love to see some interaction between those two. And she's drop dead gorgeous!
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Trivia
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators has 5 seasons.
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators has 50 episodes.
The key characters in Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators are Luella Shakespeare (Jo Joyner), Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton), Sebastian Brudenell (Patrick Walshe McBride).
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators was directed by Piotr Szkopiak, Paul Gibson, Ian Barber, Ian Barber, Richard Signy, Darcia Martin, Matt Carter, John Maidens, David Innes Edwards, Miranda Howard-Williams, Carolina Giammetta, Jennie Paddon, John Greening, Gill Wilkinson.
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators was produced by Ella Kelly, Caroline Slater, Estelle Daniel.
An oddball couple of private detectives named Luella Shakespeare and Frank Hathaway investigate crime in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators is rated TV-PG.
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators is a Comedy, Drama, Mystery show.
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators has an audience rating of 8.2 out of 10.
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators episodes are 45m long.
There is no information yet from the studio on if there will be another season.