The sexuality of Agatha Christie's enigmatic confirmed bachelor detective, Hercule Poirot, will be explored in a forthcoming blockbuster adaptation. The BBC six–part series, Hercule, with Edward Bluemel in the title role, is soon to start filming, mostly in Liverpool. But in the show there are some hints that he might be a bit fluid sexually, with attractions to men and women. The actor Kenneth Branagh, who played Poirot in three films, introduced a tragic 'backstory' to Death on the Nile which saw him lose the (female) love of his life during the war. Publicity material describes the show as 'an intimate study of Hercule Poirot the man and an epic portrait of Britain between the wars.'