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.
BBC
Reinvention happens often in the world of television. Whether for narrative or behind-the-scenes reasons, change is hard-wired into the nature of any long-running series, out of necessity if nothing else. Actors leave, storylines fizzle, platforms shift. Grantchester is in its third Hot Priest era. Miss Scarlet
Disney/Hulu
The historical film Firebrand is the sort of prestige-style movie that rarely gets an extended theatrical run. (To be honest, unless you're popular Oscar bait like Conclave most anything that isn't a big-budget tentpole or franchise entry barely makes it past two weeks at
PBS
The first teaser for the newly rechristened Miss Scarlet is here and, despite the dramatic behind the scenes changes that took place following the series' fourth season, the first footage from Season 5....doesn't feel all that different from what's come before. The teaser trailer
Peacock
With Halloween in our collective rearview mirror, most have turned their eyes toward the holiday season and the impending delights of Thanksgiving and Christmas. (Heck, a disturbing number of stores had festive decor on display last week.) But for those of us who are television fans, we're looking
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Netflix's The Empress is one of the best period dramas that most people probably haven't watched yet. A rare historical series that has nothing to do with the Tudor family, the Regency period, or World War II, the German series tells the story of Empress Elisabeth
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Masterpiece has announced that the highly anticipated sequel series Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light will premiere in March. The six-part drama is a sequel to the Emmy-nominated Wolf Hall and is based on the final installment in Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel's critically
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BritBox’s Passenger is a difficult series to quantify. A cross-genre mash-up that blends a slow-burn mystery with small-town politics and the sort of high-tension horror that makes you nervous to turn your lights off at night, it’s an ambitious project that aims to
Movies
The Catholic Church is known for many things, from centuries of tradition to painful public reckonings with its all-too-human failures. It is perhaps best recognized for its intricate rituals, from the comforting traditions of daily Mass to the pageantry of high feast days like Easter and Christmas. The
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It seems safe to say that BritBox’s Passenger is unlike almost any other television show that’s aired this year. The six-part series hails from Andrew Buchan, probably best known to Anglophiles as grieving father Mark Latimer in the crime drama Broadchurch. But his debut screenplay couldn’t
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The Ineffable Plan moves in mysterious ways. Based on the novel of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens has been a critical and popular darling for the streamer since its first season premiered in 2019. It stars David Tennant (Rivals) as the swaggering demon Crowley
UKTV/Alibi
The first images are here from Bookish, the forthcoming Alibi series that's also a charmingly refreshing new entry in the long tradition of British crime dramas about people with normal day jobs who also help solve murders on the side. As the title indicates, this time around, the
Sky
With production now officially underway in Wales, Sky has firmed up the cast of its upcoming limited series Under Salt Marsh. The crime drama is set in the fictional Welsh town of Morfa Halen, a tight-knit community precariously located between towering mountains on one side and the swiftly encroaching