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.
Apple TV
Apple TV+ has released the trailer for its upcoming British comedy Still Up, an eight-part series that is targeted like a laser to fill the heartfelt hole that Ted Lasso has left behind in the streamer's schedule. (And if this first clip anything to go by, it may
Starz
One of the best parts of British television is that, eventually, all of your faves are going to work with one another. It's just the nature of the business — that ongoing joke about there only being a dozen actors at work in the U.K. at any given
Showtrial
In recent years, anthology series have become increasingly popular. From prestige offerings like The White Lotus to teen juggernauts like Freeform's Cruel Summer and crime dramas like True Detective, it's a format with flexibility baked into its very DNA. They allow networks and streamers to keep
The Gilded Age
Julian Fellowes' ambitious American-set period drama The Gilded Age is finally set to return this Fall, dropping us back into the highly entertaining (and seemingly neverending) battle between the old money snobs and nouveau richer strivers of late-nineteenth-century New York. And while Fellowes' American answer to Downton Abbey
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
We all support women's rights. But sometimes, it's an awful lot of fun to support women's wrongs. This seems to be the basic theory behind Prime Video's upcoming revenge thriller Wilderness, which sees a betrayed wife contemplate how best to punish the
World On Fire
It's been four years since the first season of World War II drama World on Fire premiered, promising to reinvent the way we tell stories of the war by focusing on the day-to-day lives of the ordinary people fighting, dying, and trying to survive during it. Its sprawling
Showtime
Showtime has acquired the buzzy BBC comedy Dreaming Whilst Black, a six-part, half-hour comedy that hails from A24 and Big Deal Films. It will join several other U.K. series on the premium cable network, including Episodes and We Hunt Together. The show aired in the U.K. earlier this
BritBox
One of the best — and occasionally most frustrating — things about Doctor Who is its longevity. The series, which premiered in 1963, will celebrate its 60th anniversary this November, a colossal achievement that spans 872 episodes, encompassing 300 stories spread across 39 television seasons. Wading into all that historical context can
Classics Revisited
When considering the basic idea of a period drama, there are a few obvious examples that pretty much everyone cites as the pinnacle of the genre, series which stand as the ultimate ideal of what these sorts of historical stories are supposed to be and do. The original Brideshead Revisited.
We Hunt Together
Crime thrillers and procedural series are a dime a dozen in the world of British entertainment these days. From the seemingly thousands of stories about individuals in a variety of everyday occupations (Catholic priest, restaurant owner, Anglican vicar, friendly old lady up the road) who decide to suddenly start solving
Apple TV
While the Tom Hiddleston-led The Essex Serpent was technically Apple TV+'s first foray into period storytelling, its forthcoming adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton's final unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, will be the streamer's first traditional costume drama. The series — which someone finally realized
Showtime
Sometimes the most terrifying horror stories are human ones. Such is the case with the upcoming Showtime drama The Woman in the Wall, a tense and emotional thriller that aims to explore the legacy of one of Ireland's most shocking and inhumane scandals — the institutions known as the