Starz
The Serpent Queen’s fifth episode, “Time With the Family,” marks Season 2’s halfway point. We’ve seen the creation of complicated alliances, quarrels, and crises, but Catherine seems somehow above it. She is the Queen Mother, respected if not liked, the line of succession is safe, and she’
Exclusive
When PBS Passport launched in 2019, it only had two shows: Rick Steves' Europe and The Great British Baking Show. However, it wasn't long before a brand new anthology series brought new content to PBS members: Walter's Choice, which in 2023 rechristened itself back to
Disney/Hulu
Hulu has confirmed that Rivals, a scandalous, soapy drama bursting with all the scandal and excess that 1980s England can offer, will officially be coming to the streamer this Fall. The series, which adapts Dame Jilly Cooper's bestselling novel of the same name, follows all the sex, romance,
PBS
As COBRA: Rebellion opens, both Ellie Sutherland and Henry Wicks have been released from hospital and are being questioned by the police about their involvement with the Godley Common disaster. Ellie tells the police that Nate told her about the device, part of Henry’s plans to escalate Planet Resistance’
Actors and Actresses
Surprise! It's time for another installment of Undercover Brits, and today we are investigating the final season of The Umbrella Academy. Based on the graphic novel of the same name by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, illustrated by Gabriel Ba, for four seasons, The Umbrella Academy has
Starz
As The Serpent Queen enters the back half of its second season, viewers have seen plenty of complicated alliances, romantic entanglements, and political crises both at home and abroad. Despite Queen Catherine de Medici's (Samantha Morton) best efforts, religious strife and general unrest is spreading throughout France, and
Apple TV
Apple TV+ has gone ahead and released the trailer for Disclaimer, the Alfonso Cuarón written and directed series starring Cate Blanchett (Lord of the Rings) and Kevin Kline (always and forever The Pirates of Penzance). The series, which Apple greenlit in 2021 and is one of their higher-priced shows, is
Better Late Than Never
On paper, Mayflies is entirely straightforward, a weepy about two lifelong friends navigating a terminal cancer diagnosis in ways that are dignified, messy, and loving til the end. On-screen, it’s a revelation, a profoundly moving meditation on how the loves of our lives – romantic, platonic, familial — interweave with each
Movies
Kenneth Branagh is probably best known as an actor, thanks to his performances in films ranging from the 1993 adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing to his 2023 take on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice. But what you may not have
Showtime
Showtime's new series, The Agency, a remake of the French spy series Le Bureau des Legendes (shortened to The Bureau for the American market), is full speed ahead in casting as filming prepares to get underway. The series, which was initially announced in early 2023, disappeared from the
Movies
Kneecap, an Irish-language hip hop trio from West Belfast, have exploded over the past seven years with pounding, hedonistic rave and house tracks, all born from a young, culturally-specific Northern Irish perspective. Historically, rap has always used language in an explicitly political way – the global appeal of the genre’s
PBS
PBS' newest addition to the period drama lineup, Funny Woman (based on the novel Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, with the title altered for obvious reasons), was commissioned for a Season 2 by producer Sky around the same time it landed an American distributor. As luck would have it,