Music
There are two kinds of hit TV shows in the streaming landscape: Those that garner large audiences by delivering precisely what an audience expects without providing anything new or adding anything to the conversation and those that change the course of the entertainment waters. There is nothing wrong with the
BritBox
The acclaimed police procedural Blue Lights launches its second season on BritBox as part of the BBC's first moves to take the already successful streaming service and hyper-fuel it with some of the British Broadcasting Corporation's high-profile critical hits. Kicking the new drive to bring in
Starz
The second season of The Serpent Queen, the lavish period drama about controversial French queen Catherine de Medici will premiere on Starz this summer, and it looks as if the series is definitively turning things up a notch as rival factions fight for power and the Medici bitch struggles to
Netflix
It was the end of March when we first reported that Netflix was stepping up from doing modern Agatha Christie-style mystery knock-offs like the Knives Out mystery series of films, and were getting into the real-deal Christie works, aiming to out-BBC the BBC by doing its own limited series of
PBS
Once upon a time, in a little town called Grantchester in 1954, a vicar named Sidney Chambers (James Norton) had just finished officiating a funeral when he was asked to look into the death to see if it was really a suicide. His investigation brought him face-to-face with the local
Feature
Welcome to the second issue of Bustling With Bridgerton, where we celebrate and delve into the costumes designed for Bridgerton’s most interesting characters. Between the releases of the season’s two halves, costume designer John Glaser, along with associate costume designer Dougie Hawkes and assistant costume designer Henry Wilkinson,
BritBox
The BBC has finally released the first images for the second season of Sherwood. The series may sound like a period piece about Robin Hood, but the 2022 critical darling was anything but. It presented itself as a true-crime mystery based on a pair of murders that occurred in the
Netflix
It's a Blue Monday at Netflix, as the streaming service takes the opportunity between Bridgerton Season 3 installments to release the trailer for its next period-piece teenage sex romp, The Decameron. Loosely based (and I mean very loosely based) on the 14th-century Italian short-story collection of the same
PBS
Less than a year after its first season aired on linear on most PBS stations, the U.K. police procedural D.I. Ray is back for a second season. D.I. Ray is one of many shows with a cast and creative team that trace back to the BBC’s
BritBox
It is a truth universally acknowledged that of the series that debuted on PBS’ Mystery! in the 1980s, three are considered the defining adaptations of iconic British sleuths: Jeremy Brett in Sherlock Holmes, Joan Hickson in Miss Marple, and David Suchet in Poirot, which eventually was rebranded as Agatha Christie’
AMC/AMC+
The Western Australian series Scrublands is officially coming back for a second season, as Australian streaming service Stan releases the first image now that filming is underway. Based on Chris Hammer’s debut novel of the same name, the series was one of those lost in the niche streaming services
Movies
The Watchers is another one of those films that UK and Irish distributors have judged as having too alienating and unmarketable a title, so it’s been pitched in both Britain and Ireland as The Watched. (The Watchers is an Irish-set and co-produced film) The slight confusion over what Ishana