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Comedy
Helena Bonham Carter is moving on from the high drama of The Crown to a very different sort of series. She is joining The Inbetweeners' star Greg Davies in the cast of a BBC comedy titled simply The Cleaner. The series is an adaptation of the long-running German
The Time Travelers Wife
Sanditon's Theo James and Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie have been tapped to star in Steven Moffat's upcoming adaptation of the bestselling novel The Time Traveler's Wife. The series, which is being produced by HBO, will reunite two actors who both appeared in
Gangs of London
Mark your calendars: The popular British crime drama Gangs of London will officially air in the U.S. on AMC this spring. The ten-part series is currently available to American viewers viewer the network's AMC+ premium streaming platform, but this will mark its first linear broadcast. The
This England
Kenneth Branagh is set to portray U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in This Sceptered Isle, a drama that charts the events surrounding Johnson and his government in the face of the first wave of the global coronavirus pandemic. Of course, your mileage may vary about whether we truly need
I Hate Suzie
It's official: After much speculation, Sky has officially renewed Billie Piper's chaotic dramedy I Hate Suzie for a second season. The eight-part series starred Piper as the eponymous Suzie Pickles, a C-list celebrity whose nude photos are leaked in a worldwide hack, revealing the
It's a Sin
It's impossible to go into a drama that touts itself as the story of the AIDS crisis in 1980s London and expect anything that even remotely looks like a happy ending. And it's true, Russell T. Davies' haunting gut-punch of a drama, It'
The 39 Steps
Benedict Cumberbatch will take on Alfred Hitchcock in his next role, starring in a limited series remake of the iconic director's classic thriller The 39 Steps . Granted, it's true that the decision to remake anything associated with Hitchock is always particularly fraught - the man is considered
Comedy
It's official: The second season of charming lockdown comedy Staged is coming to Hulu in March. The series which stars real-life friends and Good Omens co-stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen, sees the two play slightly exaggerated versions of themselves, who happen to be starring in
Ragdoll
AMC and U.K. network Alibi are joining forces with Killing Eve producers Sid Gentle Films for a new six-part scripted series called Ragdoll. Based on the novel by Daniel Cole, the story follows the detectives assigned to investigate a particularly gruesome serial killer. Six people have been murdered,
The Tourist
Actor Jamie Dornan has signed on to play a lead role in the upcoming HBO Max thriller The Tourist. The six-episode series comes from Two Brothers Pictures, the production company behind the hit series Fleabag. The Tourist follows the story of a British man who finds himself in the
The Luminaries
On paper, a period drama set in nineteenth-century New Zealand during the height of the gold rush feels fresh and different, precisely the sort of story we should see more of in a television landscape that's too-often obsessed with tales of Regency England. Yet, instead of
Anne Boleyn
The first images from the upcoming convention-defying drama Anne Boleyn are here, featuring Queen and Slim star Jodie Turner-Smith as the infamous Tudor queen. The three-part series aims to re-examine the final months of the queen's life as a sort of period psychological thriller,