PBS
After seeing if the autumn weekends would be better for visitors with Season 2, Hotel Portofino is returning to where it belongs for Season 3, the height of summer. The Eagle Eye Drama original (one of the few they produce that isn't an English-language remake of a popular
BritBox
It’s very easy to be charmed by the over-ambitious BritBox thriller. It’s tough to pinpoint precisely when and how the implausible small-town crime saga became one of British TV’s most bankable returns on investment. However, British telly writers have many too-complicated-for-soaps storylines brewing in their heads. When
Movies
It was mid-March 2024 when Imelda Staunton broke the embargo on the third Downton Abbey film, confirming a third (and she claimed "final") movie was in the works. Staunton was not in the original show's cast, but her long-time husband, Jim Carter, starred as the butler,
PBS
If Guilt proves one thing, it’s that the Brothers McCall are hard to kill. It’s the third episode of the final season, and once again, Max and Jake escape with their lives, Max having talked Teddy into joining forces. Although Teddy expected Maggie to pay him for the
PBS
In MaryLand’s premiere, we learned that long-simmering issues percolated between sisters Becca and Rosaline. We saw snippets of decades of resentment and passive aggression. In the second episode of this three-episode series, the trauma of the sisters’ childhood is revealed. “You love being needed. You always have,” Rosaline tells
Netflix
When Netflix greenlit The Crown in 2014, it was still in its earliest phase of original programming, with high-flying claims about making shows that would never be canceled and projects aimed at proving itself the King of Prestige Television. However, nothing quite hit the heights of ambition like the royal
AMC/AMC+
Orphan Black: Echoes, the highly anticipated spin-off of BBC America's accidental hit Orphan Black, has finally released the official trailer after months and months of speculation. However, despite what should be an obvious premise — that star Krysten Ritter is the new clone, all this has happened before, and
Disney/Hulu
After a three-part 60th anniversary celebration that gave us back an old Doctor and a holiday special that introduced a new one, Doctor Who is finally back on our screens with its first proper full season in several years. (No, whatever "Flux" was does not count.) Led by
Disney/Hulu
Such Brave Girls is going to have to get a little braver, as the BBC has commissioned the series for a second season. The Kat Sadler-penned series, which also stars the emerging writer, was a critical darling when it arrived in 2023. (Our own critic, Amy Amatangelo, admitted it was
Disney/Hulu
Disney+ may be the home of family-friendly TV in the States, but the U.K. arm is less bound by such values. See the current highly anticipated series Rivals, an adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s best-selling 1988 novel of the same name. It is based on the second in her
Disney/Hulu
With the release date less than.a week away, Hulu has finally dropped a trailer for its newest British import, the crime thriller The Killing Kind. The series, originally a Paramount+ U.K. original, may well have gotten lost in the shuffle of, well, everything that's going on
Netflix
After disappearing from the radar for several months, Netflix has released the first look images from its long-awaited foray into 14th-century Italy, The Decameron. Initially greenlit in August 2022, the series is "inspired by" the contemporaneously published short-story collection of the same name by Giovanni Boccaccio, and was