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The Beast Must Die will not premiere in the U.S. for a couple of more weeks, but so far, its ratings on BritBox UK overseas have been deemed good enough for a renewal. One of the first original series to be developed by the emerging streaming service, the Jared
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Downton Abbey secured itself a sequel berth when the box office returns rocked industry watchers with record proceeds. The only obstacle — much like the first film — was the ensemble element. With a core cast of a dozen and a half actors, lining up schedules was always going to be a
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Bridgerton's overwhelming popularity has already made waves in the television landscape, bringing regency romance to the forefront of streaming entertainment. Masterpiece PBS has revived Sanditon in its wake; Dakota Johnson is bidding to be taken seriously by playing Ann Eliott in a new version of Persuasion. Now Netflix
Mystery
PBS' Masterpiece has shaped American views of British television for two generations now, starting with shows like Upstairs Downstairs and I Claudius in the 1970s. But it was the program Mystery! that's done the most for what people think of when they think of U.K. police
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When David Suchet hung up his little mustaches, it was the end of one era for Agatha Christie on the small screen, but it opened the way for another new wave of different adaptations. Fans have since been treated to Sarah Phelps' imaginative BBC takes and subjected to Kenneth
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Acorn TV debuted the second season of Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries this week, with the first episode landing on the service on June 7. The series, a spinoff of the beloved cult favorite Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, brings the period piece crime capers forward a
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The timing of the pandemic shutdowns in 2020 upended a lot of planned TV production schedules. But the ones who felt the hit the most were those who planned to film internationally, especially those who couldn't rethink that plan because they were set in other countries. For instance,
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Masterpiece has released the first images of its latest collaboration with the BBC, Ridley Road. Inspired by a true story, the series is adapted from Jo Bloom's best-selling novel of the same name. Set in the U.K. in the late 1960s, newcomer Aggi O'Casey stars
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Fans have been patiently waiting for a new season of Unforgotten ever since Season 3's cliffhanger ended with DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) quitting the force. But it took a while for ITV to get the already-renewed fourth season off the ground after it aired in 2018 in
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Summer is rolling in, and so are the new summer series on streaming. Once again, it's an array of offerings from across the internet, including several titles coming to PBS Passport and yet another service getting ahold of the rights to Downton Abbey. So, what's coming
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Summer is just about here, and with it, a new crop of new shows from Masterpiece. After several years of this being the "summer of mysteries" with Endeavour and Grantchester, 2021 aims for something a little different, kicking off with a family drama titled Us. The series initially
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As Netflix and Shondaland continue to develop a Bridgerton-based empire, production on Season 2 of the series is happily humming along in London. But the latest casting news has implications not just for the current series but perhaps the spinoff as well. Rupert Evans (The Man in the High Castle)