PBS
The trend of advancing a period piece series forward one year per season was not new when Call The Midwife began using it over a decade ago, but the ubiquity of the BBC's hit —which started in the late 1950s with Season 1 and will now cross in
Channel 4
Channel 4’s upcoming adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s debut novel Trespasses has landed some serious star power behind it. The book, which follows a Catholic teacher living in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and her scandalous romance with a Protestant man, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for
Starz
Episode 4 of The Serpent Queen begins with a sad homecoming for Catherine, expecting to hear the worst about her injured son Hercule. After an affectionate but restrained welcome from her other children, she meets the court doctor, who informs her that Hercule’s wound has become infected and his
Sundance Now
When TV drama series focus on hot-button issues, there is a tendency to distill things into a simple formula. One side is Good, the other Bad; we are supposed to root for the former. Even amid prestige TV's height, with anti-heroes all the rage, someone is unmasked as
Apple TV
Apple TV+ recently admitted it would actually start attempting to reign in the massive budgets for its original content after a year that saw high-priced projects like Masters of the Air and Fly Me To The Moon barely register, while the long-delayed second season of Severence practically turned into a
PBS
COBRA: Rebellion’s second episode lays bare the terrible tension between Robert Sutherland’s roles as Prime Minister and loving father and damages the fragile truce with his wife, Rachel. Their troublesome, beloved daughter Ellie is missing in the Godley Common disaster, where a massive sinkhole has destroyed buildings and
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It's August, and it is miserably hot here in the Northern Hemisphere. August is always miserably hot in most of America, but this year seems worse than usual, perhaps because we keep breaking records for the hottest days ever recorded on the planet. This is the time to
Acorn TV
Acorn TV has officially confirmed that fan-favorite breakout hit Harry Wild will return for a fourth season. The niche streaming service, which is far and away AMC Network’s most-watched service of its little federation of offerings, made the announcement with the release of a pair of photos marking the
Netflix
Rumors have been swirling about a Peaky Blinders movie for so long that it's honestly a bit jarring to see the production engine that will return the Shelby family to our screens begin to rumble to life. But, as they say, good things come to those who wait,
PBS
The dog days of August are upon us, and while streaming has mostly changed the TV season so that no one takes summers off anymore, PBS is still a linear network at heart, and most of its shows run on the old September-May TV season, with a set of mysteries
MHz Choice
Babylon Berlin is back, and in its fourth season – available exclusively on foreign language specialist streamer MHz Choice – continues to ascend ever more dizzying heights of storytelling about the inevitably crumbling Weimar Republic and the people who are, variously, living the high life barely scraping by, just getting on with
Theater
It's not a secret that London has some of the best theater in the world. with over 200 venues across the city. (Around 40 of them are in its famous West End, for those who were curious.) With some of the biggest performers in the world regularly taking