SCARE tactics

Death strikes a scarecrow festival as Midsomer Murders celebrates 25 years...

- RICHARD MCCLURE, STEVEN PERKINS

NEW CRIME DRAMA

Midsomer Murders

Sunday, 8pm, ITV

ITV's Midsomer Murders has been entertaining fans with wickedly wonderful whodunnits since 1997. This week, the crime drama returns for a special episode to mark 25 years of the show, and the latest case is just as whimsical and darkly comic as ever...

Little Upton's scarecrow festival takes a sinister turn when the dead body of Naomi Ashworth is found in the window of her vintage-goods emporium, posed like a scarecrow and padded with straw. DCI Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) and DS Winter (Nick Hendrix) are determined to collar the killer, but find themselves constantly playing catch-up with journalist Caitlin Dawson (Jessica Ellerby), who's also Winter's old flame.

TV Satellite Week caught up with Hendrix, 37, to find out more...

What can you tell us about this investigation?

It’s about a scarecrow festival, which is a very