Julia McKenzie stars in Murder Is Easy, the second of the three new Agatha Christie's Marple.

The cast includes Anna Chancellor, Jemma Redgrave, Sylvia Syms and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Julia McKenzie's first outing as Miss Marple will be in a remake of A Pocketful of Rye.

Julia McKenzie will star as Miss Marple - this time getting written into the Agatha Christie novel Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? It will be a two hour film shown on ITV1.

Geraldine McEwan returned for one of her two final appearances as Miss Marple on ITV1 on 3rd August 2008.

Julia McKenzie is ITV's new Miss Marple. McKenzie is 66 and played Mrs Forrester in the BBC costume drama Cranford as Mrs Forrester. She replaces Geraldine McEwan in the role.

Geraldine McEwan announced her retirement from the role of Miss Marple today.

McEwan has played Agatha Christie's Jane Marple since ITV1 brought her back in 2003 and starred in twelve TV films.

Ordeal By Innocence is an Agatha Christie novel but Miss Marple doesn't get a mention from the first page to the last.

The first of four episodes from series three of Miss Marple starring Geraldine McEwan premières on ITV1 on Sunday evening.

I always thought that Joan Hickson played the best Miss Marple on television.....I believe Agatha Christie thought the same.....the gentile way she went about things, with her head to one side, taking everything in......until eventually she reveals who did it and why.

Geraldine McEwan returns to ITV1 as Jane Marple on 30th April in The Sittaford Mystery.

This is based on an Agatha Christie novel in which Miss Marple did not feature. ITV has bought the TV rights of all the Agatha Christie novels and is including Miss Marple in several of them to increase the number of viewers.