{"id":31949,"date":"2013-11-08T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=31949"},"modified":"2013-11-11T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:46:22","slug":"lansbury-mistake-new-murder-she-wrote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=31949","title":{"rendered":"Lansbury, Mistake: New Murder, She Wrote"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"peacock\"<\/a>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Angela Lansbury says “it’s a mistake” for NBC to call a new series “Murder, She Wrote.”<\/p>\n

The network recently announced plans to reboot the show with Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer as its star. Spencer acknowledged her new TV project on Twitter last month.<\/p>\n

Lansbury, who will accept an honorary Academy Award later this week, said “Murder, She Wrote” was her “greatest doorway to the world.”<\/p>\n

“I suddenly became a worldwide-known character as Jessica Fletcher and really built an enormous audience, which I have to this day,” the 88-year-old said in a weekend telephone interview from her New York home. “That was the thing that really made me a star in the minds of everybody.”<\/p>\n

Lansbury had three Oscar nominations and four Tony Awards when she joined the CBS drama, which aired from 1984 to 1996, earning her 12 consecutive Emmy nominations and international acclaim.<\/p>\n

She’s sensitive about the show’s reinvention.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s a mistake to call it ‘Murder, She Wrote,'” Lansbury said, “because ‘Murder, She Wrote’ will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person …<\/p>\n

“So I’m sorry that they have to use the title ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ even though they have access to it and it’s their right.”<\/p>\n

Lansbury said she admires Spencer’s work.<\/p>\n

“I saw her in ‘The Help’ and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress,” Lansbury said. “So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn’t in ‘Murder, She Wrote.'”<\/p>\n

Representatives for Spencer didn’t respond to an email from the AP seeking comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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