‘Murder, She Wrote’ Marathon on Start TV Before It Joins Daily Lineup

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Angela Lansbury plays Jessica Fletcher, who writes mysteries and solves them too

Murder, She Wrote on Start TV
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Murder, She Wrote joins the Start TV lineup with a marathon around the 4th of July. The Angela Lansbury series then moves to its regular seven-day-a-week slots at 9 a.m., 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET/PT July 5. 

Start TV, owned by Weigel Broadcasting, showcases dramas featuring empowered female lead characters. 

Murder, She Wrote follows mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher, portrayed by Lansbury, who solves murders in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine. The show went for 12 seasons on CBS, amassing 264 episodes. It was nominated for the outstanding drama Emmy three times, with six Golden Globe nominations in the same category. For her part, Lansbury was nominated for a dozen Emmys and ten Golden Globes. 

Lansbury died in October at 96.

Start TV offers 65 episodes and two Murder, She Wrote movies beginning Sunday, July 2 at 12 p.m. ET/PT and continuing through to Wednesday, July 5 at 9 a.m. ET/PT.

Also airing on Start TV are Rizzoli & Isles, The Closer, Crossing Jordan, Medium and Major Crimes, among other dramas. 

Start TV is available in more than 82% of the country on select cable and satellite systems and streams on Frndly TV and Philo. 

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.