Netflix
About halfway through the second season of Netflix’s The Diplomat, it occurred to me that perhaps US Ambassador Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) isn’t so good at her job. She treats being the US Ambassador to England a little bit like being a character in Mean Girls. She forms
Netflix
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
Netflix
Since Netflix first announced the Keira Knightley series Black Doves, in which she would play an assassin/spy, it was apparent the streaming service saw the series as the spiritual heir to The Crown. It's quite a tellingly placed follow-up, taking one of the most ambitious concepts from
PBS
The final two months of the year are upon us, and with them, the conclusion of PBS' Fall lineup of Sunday shows. While both Moonflower Murders and Van der Valk Season 4 ended in October, Ridley Season 2 still had another episode to go, taking it into the top
PBS
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 acclaimed trilogy of
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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 do more than simply tell
Netflix
The highly anticipated Peaky Blinders movie started filming in September 2024, as Netflix announced that some significant A-list actors will join star Cillian Murphy as the series transfers to the big screen. Rebecca Ferguson (Dune), Barry Keoghan (Saltburn), and Tim Roth (Rob Roy) were all confirmed as joining the film,
Disney/Hulu
The tradition of families gathering around the telly at Christmas in the U.K. to watch Christmas specials from their favorite series has been going on since the early 1980s; however, it wasn't until the 2005 reboot of Doctor Who that it gained enough cultural cache to earn
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 Church has
AMC/AMC+
Australia's leading streaming service, Stan, initially commissioned Black Snow as a standalone miniseries in 2022, with Travis Finnel (Dune: Prophecy) attached to lead the crime drama as Detective James Cormack. Billed as a "coming-of-age whodunit," Season 1 focused on a 1990s-era small-town murder that rocked North
HBO & HBO Max
One of the more difficult decisions Telly Visions has to make is what constitutes a British series and what doesn't. This didn't use to be nearly so tricky: it was created by the BBC and ran on PBS. British. It didn't? Probably not British.
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Ahead of The Rig's initial debut on Amazon Prime Video in January 2023, series creator David Macpherson explained the series as one that was inspired by and acknowledges just how little we know about the waters of our own planet. "The deep ocean contains over 95% of