BritBox
BritBox has settled in for the holidays with several "Festive Specials" (as they're called in the U.K.) populating the calendar for the back half of the month. The specials will begin arriving on December 17, 2024, starting with the new Sister Boniface Mysteries Christmas episode.
Movies
The Golden Globe nominations for the calendar year 2024 are out, and several upcoming arrivals, including The Brutalist, have already received multiple nominations. The film arrives in the U.S. in time for Christmas Week. However, it has already garnered stellar reviews from its Venice International Film Festival debut, taking
HBO & HBO Max
The narration baton is handed to Holborn for Get Millie Black’s third installment* in what is now clearly a pattern. Holborn tells us he grew up with nothing and remarks how that upbringing makes you hungry for everything you don’t have. Now, he is accomplished professionally and personally:
Acorn TV
Dalgliesh’s second case of Season 3, “Cover Her Face,” opens on a thunderstorm; one has rained out a village fete, which set up shop at the Mehta family’s Essex estate. Krishna Mehta (Parth Thakerar), a surgical registrar at a London hospital destined for a prestigious career, is annoyed
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
The pandemic delays that upended filming for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon led to a head-to-head, as Amazon and HBO released Season 1 of each within a week of each other in 2022, and then their respective Season 2 back-
BritBox
BritBox and ITV are joining forces with the producers behind The Crown to bring you your next royal obsession: A four-part drama called The Lady. A story that made global headlines, it's got it all: A royal confidante, a grisly murder, and a subsequent scandalous trial. The
PBS
Depending on how you feel about the way Sherlock Holmes has spawned seemingly infinite adaptations, he might feel like a comforting old friend or a stain that won’t come out. To Sherlock’s author, Arthur Conan Doyle, it was almost certainly the latter. That twisted relationship between creator and
Movies
Uberto Pasolini’s The Return isn’t just built off the closing stages of Homer’s Odyssey – featuring a guilt-ridden, lonely Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) tentatively and reluctantly returning to the frayed, fragile kingdom overseen by his queen Penelope (Juliette Binoche) – it builds on an appealing interpretation of its final
Disney/Hulu
There's been a spate of worrying across the pond about the state of the TV comedy. There's a sense among those at the BBC that critics haven't given sitcoms their propers in quite a while, with fears that comedy could become an endangered form
It wasn't that long ago that you could easily imagine Jude Law playing a charismatic cult leader, encouraging young men and their families to sacrifice themselves at the altar of his character's dark aspirations. In his new film The Order, Law is instead checking off a
BritBox
The UKTV series I, Jack Wright was initially announced in early 2024. Described as "a propulsive, darkly comic and moving murder mystery family drama, which offers many twists and turns as one family deals with treachery and hidden agendas from all involved," it is only the second stand-
Netflix
The holidays are a time when TV networks know viewers will tune in; it's not like people want to watch a Christmas Tree lighting in mid-January! However, that problem is exactly what Netflix has regarding The Great British Baking Show. The 60-hour wait from Tuesday at