PBS
Guilt has a penchant for starting with characters you’ve never seen before, which is annoying when you’re trying to wrap things up. In its second episode, we meet possible pill addict Aliza (Tamsin Topolski) – though her name is never actually spoken. A no-nonsense American at a large investment
PBS
Anyone who has ever experienced the death of a parent knows that the loss can bring all the deep-rooted family dynamics to bear—long-simmering sibling rivalry bubbles to the surface. Decades of hurt and anger have no place to hide. Despite the mysterious opening moments of a man discovering a
PBS
Call the Midwife celebrates mothers every week, but the Season 13 finale went all out to highlight maternal instincts and surrogate mothers in all forms. The season-ender began with the announcement of the Poplar Mother of the Year competition with the grand prize of a brand new washing machine (fancy!
UKTV/Alibi
Filming has officially begun on Bookish, the latest entry in the longstanding British mystery tradition of "people with increasingly random jobs who also help the police solve murders for fun". This one, perhaps the most perfectly imagined TV take on this concept yet, focuses on a gay bookshop
Peacock
The global debut of Sky/Peacock’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz was timed for May 2, the anniversary of the fall of Berlin in 1945, and the conclusion of this year’s Passover. It is particularly timely with a rise in anti-Semitism and a right-wing swing both here and in
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Few things in life are certain, but the constant turnover within the police department on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie might be one of them. Heading into its fourteenth season, Death in Paradise has officially named its fifth actor to take over the role of lead detective. Don
Movies
Kate Winslet's biopic on model-turned-photojournalist Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lee, was first released in 2023 at the Toronto Film Festival, which is usually the first place films start their runs for awards season. However, SkyFilms and StudioCanal did not immediately land international distribution, nor were the reviews
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Filming is officially complete on the fifth season of the newly rechristened Miss Scarlet, the popular drama's first without its original co-lead Stuart Martin (Jamestown), who played William Wellington, the titular Duke from the series' original name. Masterpiece celebrated this milestone -- and transition to a new
Peacock
The Lady Parts are entering their villain era. After far too long away from our screens, the Channel 4-Peacock series, We Are Lady Parts, about a group of U.K. Muslim students who put together a punk band and discover where their voices lie, returns for a second season just
FX
Welcome To Wrexham – FX’s sports docu-series about the increasingly good fortunes of a historic but seemingly ill-fated Welsh football club — returns to our screens in May 2024, barely six months after Season 2’s finale, with a two-episode premiere for the series’ third season. We’ve covered the fortunes
Netflix
Netflix’s Eric is undoubtedly one of the odder new releases heading our way this spring. It’s a missing child thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) as a father who becomes convinced a giant puppet is the key to finding his lost son, but darn
Disney/Hulu
When Candice Carty-Williams published her debut novel, Queenie, in 2019, it was an instant best-seller. The novel had blurbs praising it from Candice Bushnell of Sex and the City fame to Roxanne Gay, and rave reviews from NPR and Book Riot alike. The story of a British-Jamaican young woman'