BritBox
Things are not going well for Lana as Trigger Point Season 2 hits the halfway point, and frankly, I don’t know how much more this poor woman can take. I took the liberty of looking at possible Starbucks jobs in the London area because I really think a career
BritBox
As we've been covering here at Telly Visions, BritBox is on the up and up since being bought out by the BBC. Auntie Beeb needed a successful international streamer, and BritBox was ready-made, with nearly 15 million subscribers outside of the U.K. Thus far, the BBC brass
PBS
Whoever it was at PBS that first noticed Walter Presents launch a stand-alone streaming service in 2018, a few months before the arrival of PBS Passport, and decided to ask curator and producer Walter Iuzzolino if he'd like to join forces and move his foreign language anthology series
Movies
Everyone is familiar with William Tell, but few probably know much about him beyond the often-repeated story about the time he shot an arrow through an apple on top of his son's head. Somehow, the bit where that whole thing actually sparked a battle for Swiss independence seems
PBS
Except for 2021, Van der Valk has reliably returned to PBS every September since the beginning of the 2020s. The series, a remake of the 1970s/1990s Dutch mystery of the same name and based on the characters from the novels by Nicholas Freeling, has modernized what was a gentle
AMC/AMC+
Lately, there’s been a lot about “gerontocracy” and whether or not older people can cognitively handle high-level jobs. For those who need an example showing that age ain’t nothing but a number and you’re only as old as you let yourself feel, I give you Sir David
Movies
The British Film Institute's London Film Festival is one of the last significant chances for most films to get themselves into the Awards Conversation. (The AFI Film Festival in November is THE last chance.) It's also a good bellwether of which films think they can grab
PBS
It's been nearly 30 years since the last episodic television adaptation of Maigret was launched. However, there was a time when the titular French detective from Georges Simenon's best-selling novels was a staple of European television. From 1960 to 2005, there were no less than eight
HBO & HBO Max
Since the launch of Max (nee HBO Max) in the summer of 2020, its parent companies (first AT&T, now Warner Bros. Discovery) have imported and co-produced British comedies. Not that most people are aware of it; AT&T assumed if you stream it, they would magically find
Starz
Period drama The Serpent Queen wrapped up its second season with an uber-dramatic and exceptionally bloody final installment that featured everything from a surprise pregnancy and a forced wedding to literal mass murder. "All Saints Day" is the sort of audacious, over-the-top storytelling that this show does best,
Movies
We Live in Time has been on the awards buzz radar since it was first announced in 2023. The film stars Florence Pugh (Little Women) and Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven) as the main couple in a dramatic romance. She's a chef with big dreams; he
BBC
Every actor cites two rules as they break them: Never work with children or animals. The theory behind this statement is that working with either requires working with someone who cannot yet fully understand they are acting. But what if the adaptation you're undertaking is a child-centric series?