PBS
For a show that on the surface seems so idyllic (The sun! The Italian coast! The fashion!), this third season of Hotel Portofino has been extraordinarily stressful. The season’s penultimate episode, entitled “Revelations,” took no prisoners. Are you sitting down? I think you should sit down. Let’s start
Better Late Than Never
I was a sitcom kid growing up. I snuck in my fair share of hour-long series when my parents weren’t looking. However, on reflection, most of what I gravitated towards were comedic, caper-based shows like Cheers, Golden Girls, Roseanne, and then eventually – thanks to PBS – Britcoms like Fawlty Towers,
Apple TV
The only good thing about the television industry essentially throwing the entire concept of a "limited series" out the window is that sometimes, if we're lucky, a really, really good show gets a second lease on life. Such is the case with Apple TV+'s
Disney/Hulu
Production has officially begun on the Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea, the first installment in showrunner Russell T. Davies' long-planned Disney+ expansion of the Whoniverse. Though the specifics of the limited series' plot remain under wraps, the spin-off will feature the return
Starz
The penultimate episode of Season 2 of The Serpent Queen opens with a demonstration of Edith’s growing aggression toward Catholics. Her gang, including Aabis, (who isn’t dead!) puts a dagger to the throat of an elderly priest outside his church until he renounces his faith. We first met
Movies
While Disney+ and Netflix were announcing release dates for their respective high-end British shows for 2024, Sky Film's The Radleys was having a splendid debut on the movie side of the Edinburgh Film Festival. The TV movie adaptation of Matt Haig's hit novel of the same
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Steven Knight's wildly popular Peaky Blinders changed the period drama genre, adding gritty realism and unapologetic violence to the world of a Birmingham gang family's rise to power in 1920s England. The show was so successful it ran for six seasons and has spawned a feature
PBS
It's time to call a COBRA as the penultimate episode of COBRA: Rebellion kicks off. As was shown at the end of last week, Dan Goddard, the father of the late protestor Polly, has joined with two ex-military terrorists to steal the Damocles XR, a sophisticated long-range mortar
FX
Since being brought under the Disney banner, FX has struggled to find its footing as a network. Initially developed by 20th Century to be Fox’s answer to cable channels like AMC and HBO, Disney recognized it had landed a valuable asset — the House of Mouse lacked a network/streaming
Acorn TV
Acorn TV first revealed it was boarding Channel 5 police drama Ellis at the Television Critics Press Tour for Winter 2024. The series stars Sharon D Clarke (best known to Americans either as the President in Red, White & Royal Blue or as the late Grace O'Brien, a
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
As almost every viewer knows by now, the streaming world is a cruel mistress. From Netflix to Prime Video to Disney+, there's a veritable graveyard of promising original series gone too soon, ditched before they could find an audience. The past year or so has been ruthless in
Disney/Hulu
It's the last days of summer in Scotland, and the Edinburgh Film Festival is in full swing with film debuts and TV news. Netflix isn't the only one rolling out its highest-end U.K. series for the back half of 2024. Disney+ also turned up with