Lacy's love of British TV primarily involves evangelizing all things Doctor Who and watching as many period dramas as possible. York apologist and Ninth Doctor enthusiast, you can find her other writing all around the entertainment web.
The Serpent Queen
Cable network Starz announced a few weeks ago that former Harlots star Samantha Morton would lead their new series The Serpent Queen, an eight-part drama about the life of the infamous French queen Catherine de Medici. This week, they announced the actors who would join her, casting ten names
Anne Boleyn
Dishonest or devoted? Sinner or saint? Traitor or trailblazer? These are the questions the trailer for the buzzy, controversial new period drama Anne Boleyn asks its audience to consider about the woman whose story most of us feel we already know. The upcoming Channel 5 series has made waves ever
Marlow
The Crown star Claire Foy is leaving royalty behind for a very different sort of leading role with Britbox. The Emmy winner has been tapped to star in the upcoming crime drama Marlow, an eight-episode thriller that tells the story of two warring families that have lived on the
Becoming Elizabeth
Premium cable network Starz has released the first look at its upcoming period drama Becoming Elizabeth, an eight-episode series that aims to explore an oft-ignored aspect of the famous Elizabeth Tudor's life: Her youth. The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth saw her
Movies
The trailer for A24's upcoming adaptation of The Green Knight is here, and it's everything any epic fantasy fan could ask for. The film is loosely based on the medieval alliterative verse poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an anonymous chivalric romance written in the
A Discovery of Witches
Mark your calendars, A Discovery of Witches fans. The series highly anticipated (and highly addictive) second season will come to an American cable network near you this June. After a successful run on AMC streaming platforms Sundance Now and Shudder, the popular supernatural romance will come to broadcast television on
Dodger
Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston will lead the cast of Dodger, a new story set in the world of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. The ten-part family drama will be set prior to the events of Dicken's famous novel and will follow the exploits of
The Drowning
Hit identity thriller The Drowning comes to America on not one but two streaming platforms this week. The drama will debut in full on Thursday, May 6 in a simultaneous premiere on streaming services Acorn TV and Sundance Now. The series aired in the U.K. earlier this year and
Tom Hollander
British drama Us will arrive on PBS' Masterpiece this summer, a heartfelt, witty story about a family on the edge of breaking apart. Based on a novel by best-selling author David Nicholls, Us follows the story of a couple who embark on a long-planned grand tour of
Movies
What a time to be a Jane Austen fan: It looks like we're getting not one but two new versions of Persuasion headed to our screens in the not too distant future. According to The Hollywood Reporter, streaming giant Netflix is producing its own updated take on Austen&
Domina
When American audiences think of period dramas, our minds tend to go immediately to England in Tudor, Victorian, or Regency times and popular shows like Bridgerton, Victoria, Downton Abbey, or The Tudors. But that's certainly not the case with the upcoming drama Domina, a new series that aims
The War Rooms
Jenna Coleman has been tapped to star in the upcoming drama The War Rooms, a series that will explore the untold stories of the women who lived, loved, and triumphed in Winston Churchill’s secret Whitehall bunker during World War II. Coleman will play Joan Bright, an unsung hero of