Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Just when you think there couldn’t possibly be more to say about a certain deerstalker-wearing British detective, another adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes enters the ring. This time around, Amazon Prime is plumbing the depths of Sherlock’s early life for the upcoming series Young Sherlock.
Feature
When people think of long-running series on PBS, they think of Sesame Street, Antiques Roadshow, and Agatha Christie's Poirot. But the Inspector Morse Universe began in 1988 on Mystery!, spanned Masterpiece's 2007 merger for brands and the move to Sunday nights from Thursdays under Inspector Lewis,
Movies
The problem with writing about the forthcoming third Downton Abbey movie is that there's not much to write about. The newest installment of what has become a surprisingly long-lived feature film series since the first Downton Abbey movie was a blockbuster in 2019 began filming in the waning
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Prime Video's adaptation of My Lady Jane is fiercely feminist, funny, and extremely creative with history, so don’t expect the right sort of gable hoods in this adventurous fantasy. Author Cynthia Hand is one of a trio of writers (with Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows) who collaborated
Apple TV
Just when Apple TV+ seemed to have gotten into a groove, the little streaming service that no one watches other than critics decided to shake things up. The streaming service has a small group of reliable hits among its offerings (hits being an extremely relative term), with Slow Horses being
Disney/Hulu
Hulu has dropped the first teaser for Rivals, its upcoming adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s best-selling 1988 novel of the same name. Technically based on the second installment in her bestselling Rutshire Chronicles series, the uber-soapy saga follows all the sex, scandal, and betrayal happening among the upper-class families of
AMC/AMC+
If you’re looking for a sexy, BIPOC-led, mile-a-minute witch series set in present-day North England – something audiences should always be looking for at all times – you could do a lot worse than Domino Day: Lone Witch. The six-part first season (a second season has yet to be announced) launched
HBO & HBO Max
Of the 11 new shows the BBC's Director of Drama, Lindsay Salt, greenlit in February 2024, the least surprising was Lions, the pitch from Richard Gadd. If that name rings a bell, it should; Gadd became a household name in America thanks to Netflix early in 2024 after
Netflix
If decades of Masterpiece dramas and three seasons of Hulu hit Only Murders in the Building have taught us anything, it's that literally anyone can solve crimes. Are you a restaurant owner? A parish priest? A book publicist? You, too, could be out there doing your bit to
PBS
July is just around the corner, and with it, the U.K.'s highly anticipated snap election on July 4, ironically, America's Independence Day. For PBS fans, PBS News will have the usual Wednesday News Hour episode with updates on how the voting has gone and any
Paramount+
The never-ending, slow-rolling disaster at Paramount Studios continues despite the hope that the troubled studio would have landed a buyer or at least a rescue plan by now. Main shareholder Shari Redstone was 90% to closing a deal that would have sold the holding company National Amusements to David Ellison
BritBox
Move over Kardashians; there’s a new dynasty of celebrity sisters headed to our screens — except they were born over a century ago. Enter the Mitford sisters, the subjects of a forthcoming BritBox period drama, Outrageous, which began filming today around Buckinghamshire. The six Mitford sisters, born between 1904 and