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Masterpiece Mystery; Zen, Series I: Vendetta
07/01/2011
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- Series
- Masterpiece Mystery
- Program
- Zen, Series I: Vendetta
- Program Number
4118
- Series Description
In June, 2008, the Masterpiece mystery! season launches with The Men of Mystery!, welcoming back Inspector Lewis, while bidding a fond farewell to Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Billie Piper stars as Sally Lockhart in two adaptations of Philip Pullman's popular novels about the feisty young female sleuth.
Stage and film star Alan Cumming, one of show business's most eclectic talents, is taking on the role of host of this season of Masterpiece mystery!, making his first appearance when the series premieres on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 9pm ET on PBS Series release date: 6/22/2008
- Program Description
Meet Zen. He has an unusual (Venetian) name and, in the shark tank of Roman politics, has an even more unusual reputation — as an honest detective. Aurelio Zen, the sometimes cool, sometimes bumbling, but always impeccably stylish murder squad detective is saddled with an "unfortunate" reputation for integrity, and it hasn't exactly helped his career. Nor is his personal life thriving, he is pushing 40 and living with his doting mother after a failed marriage.
But Zen is handed a chance to play politics and salvage his career when a debauched billionaire construction magnate is murdered in his heavily fortified mountain retreat. Zen is driven to find something it seems only he wants — the truth, and the murder squad's new secretary, Tania Moretti.
Meanwhile, a vengeful killer is making his way to Rome, brutally executing those who sent him away to prison for murder. The final target of his vendetta: Aurelio Zen.
Left Bank Pictures co-produced with MASTERPIECE, Ingenious, BBC Scotland, Mediaset, ZDF
In association with lipsync for BBC Worldwide logo
© Left Bank Pictures (Zen) Limited and Ingenious Broadcasting 2 LLP 2010. All Rights Reserved.
- Duration
01:25:40
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Drama
- Citation
- Chicago: “Masterpiece Mystery; Zen, Series I: Vendetta,” 07/01/2011, GBH Archives, accessed March 23, 2023, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8C0B6188E2E446D28CD79DB59DBFD287.
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