Apple TV
Apple TV+ continues to lean into its international programming era, announcing that French language drama Carême will arrive on the streamer in April. The eight-part period piece is set to explore the life of the titular Antonin Carême, the man who became the world's first celebrity chef
PBS
One of the biggest series of 2023 in the U.K. was the BBC series The Gold. Initially imagined as a limited series, the six-part small-screen dramatization of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery was a star-studded affair, full of PBS favorites, as is befitting of a
Acorn TV
Murdoch Mysteries’ eighteen seasons may seem paltry next to shows like the U.K.’s Midsomer Murders (Season 25) or Silent Witness (Season 28). However, on this side of the pond, it’s nearly legendary as Canada’s longest-running scripted one-hour drama series. The period mystery series first
Movies
As William Shakespeare once proclaimed through Jaques in As You Like It: “All the world’s a stage…” In theory, yes. However, if you seek world-class productions of Bard’s great works, they are usually very location-specific. Unless you’ve got an inexhaustible income, seeing many of those
Netflix
Netflix has traveled far from the company's original ideals when it launched House of Cards in 2013. Back then, the streaming service was all about the prestige TV game and greenlighting ambitious series no one in their right mind would have agreed to, such as agreeing to six
Theater
One of the hottest tickets in London's West End right now is to a very American production. The Almeida Theatre's encore presentation of A Streetcar Named Desire sees Paul Mescal (Gladiator II) reprise his Olivier-winning performance as Stanley Kowalski from the 2022 revival, alongside most
PBS
Marie Antoinette may never have said, “Let Them Eat Cake,” but history seems obsessed with her anyway. The extraordinarily wealthy and somewhat traumatized young bride of Louis XVI lived a life of extremes, little parenting, and less help in adulting; she buried herself in beauty and comfort until the populace
PBS
Vienna Blood is (probably) dead; long live Vienna Blood. The pre-Great War murder mystery series featuring the highly effective odd couple of young British Freudian Dr. Max Liebermann and veteran Viennese homicide detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt’s fourth season wrapped up on PBS at the end of January, and
Game of Thrones
James Norton's exit from Grantchester was messier than anyone would have liked. At the end of his three-season contract, he declined to re-sign for another season, delaying the show's fourth season by nearly a year as an agreement was worked out where he would
Acorn TV
We're a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and 2025 looks like it's about to become a cultural tipping point in most significant areas of Western life. One of those places is the entertainment landscape: Paramount+ will be sold to Skydance, Netflix just yanked
Netflix
Our time in The Dreaming is ending, likely earlier than many of us expected. Netflix has confirmed that its forthcoming second season of The Sandman will be the series last. Based on the award-winning series of the same name, The Sandman follows the story of Morpheus, informally known as
Movies
In the Mojave Desert, the United States military built a cluster of Iraqi villages on the grounds of army base Fort Irwin. Here, hundreds of civilian roleplayers (often of Middle Eastern descent) were paid to pretend they lived in Iraqi, Afghani, and Russian villages after an American military invasion – one