Mike Ripley's new Shots Column

This month's Getting Away with Murder column from Mike Ripley is now online at Shots.

One of the topics he covers, is his time on judging Murder Most Famous, the eventual winner of which was Sherrie Hewson.

Murder Most Famous

I blogged before about Murder Most Famous a reality tv show where 'celebrities' compete to publish a crime novel. The winner will be published in next year's 'Quick Reads' series which are published to promote reading and aimed at the irregular or less confident reader.

The programme started yesterday afternoon and runs every afternoon this week. It doesn't seem to be repeated on the BBCiplayer but the BBC website has some video diaries and writing tips from Minette.

BBC2 Crime Writing Series (for "celebrities")

Will the reality show madness never end...From Digital Spy:

Brendan Cole is to star in a new reality show which teaches celebrities to become crime writers.

The Strictly Come Dancing regular will join former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie and four other stars in BBC Two's Murder Most Famous.

The group will be given writing tasks while being taught how to solve crimes with help from psychologists and police.

Best-selling author Minette Walters has signed up to be a mentor on the show and will have the power to oust a celebrity at the end of each day.

The winner will pen their own crime novel to be published by PanMacmillan on next year's World Book Day.

Murder Most Famous will air on BBC Two over five afternoons in March.

I had assumed the Cole being referred to in the Digital Spy headline was Martina!