Who's the Murderer: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Who's the Murderer is a Chinese variety program produced by Mango TV. In a prologue, the cast is introduced to the settings and suspects of a murder case for the new episode. The cast then chooses their role in the episode, as a particular suspect or the detective. Other than the detective, each person is given detailed information about the suspect they are portraying including their personalities, alibi, relationship to the victim and other suspects, history, criminal motive, etc. Every suspect can conceal information until explicitly questioned by other suspects or the detective, but only the criminal can lie.

Series details

• Title: Who's the Murderer
• Format: Variety
• Language: Chinese
• Premiere date: 2016-04-03
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: Hunan TV
• Network country: China
• Typical episode runtime: 100 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 74305
• IMDb ID: tt9332934
• TVDB ID: 336612

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-04-03; final listed air date 2016-06-23.
• Season 2: premiered 2017-01-20; final listed air date 2017-04-14.
• Season 3: premiered 2017-11-03; final listed air date 2018-01-26.
• Season 4: premiered 2018-11-02; final listed air date 2019-01-25.
• Season 5: premiered 2019-11-15; final listed air date 2020-02-14.
• Season 6: premiered 2020-12-24; final listed air date 2021-03-17.
• Season 7: premiered 2022-02-02; final listed air date 2022-05-13.
• Season 8: premiered 2023-01-26; final listed air date 2023-04-14.

Source and licence

Adapted from Who's the Murderer on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.