Netflix
It's Pastry Week in the tent as The Great British Baking Show returns on a rainy day, with the bakers bundled up against the chill. This is notably the second time in a row the series has put Pastry Week smack dab in the middle of the season.
HBO & HBO Max
In the waning days of AT&T’s ownership of Warner Media, as behind the scenes, the company was prepping to merge with Discovery Communications, HBO went into “greenlight everything” mode. Those who were intimately familiar with Discovery’s head, David Zaslav, already knew what the rest of us
BritBox
ITV is wrapping up Vera with Season 14, ending the series based on the Ann Cleeves novels after fifteen years. But over on the BBC, the other Cleeves adaptation, Shetland, is still going strong despite having a rough few years since the pandemic hit. Filming delays pushed the series, which
BritBox
A dangerous game is afoot in Chadder Vale as we reach Passenger’s midpoint. Mehmet is dead, and Riya – who never claimed to be perfect and spends a not-inconsiderable amount of time showing those imperfections – refuses to let it go. She’s in the right; it’s not a
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
The Ineffable Plan moves in mysterious ways. Based on the novel of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens has been a critical and popular darling for the streamer since its first season premiered in 2019. It stars David Tennant (Rivals) as the swaggering demon Crowley
Paramount+/Showtime
Paramount+ and Showtime have officially confirmed that their newest show, The Agency, will arrive before the end of 2024. Initially announced in early 2023 under the title The Department, the series is an English-language remake of the French hit The Bureau, and was initially billed as the successor to
BritBox
Most of the time, the BBC and ITV make producing a hit police procedural look easy. Cast a few handsome white men as emotionally troubled mid-level cops, and then force them to confront whatever version of the world you subscribe to, whether it's the AC-12 in
BritBox
ITV announced in early 2024 that Season 14 of the long-running mystery series Vera would be the final installment of the popular U.K. whodunit. Starring Brenda Blethyn as the titular DCI Vera Stanhope, the series is an adaptation of Ann Cleeves' mystery novels of the same name,
FX
Patrick Radden Keefe’s critically adored true crime/nonfiction book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland has been one of the most revelatory deep dives into the 1970s history of “The Troubles.” However, some readers were concerned when it was first announced that FX
UKTV/Alibi
The first images are here from Bookish, the forthcoming Alibi series that's also a charmingly refreshing new entry in the long tradition of British crime dramas about people with normal day jobs who also help solve murders on the side. As the title indicates, this time around, the
Movies
One of the significant problems that the Academy Awards continues to struggle with is that most years, they're awarding films no one has seen. This is due to a variety of factors, from Art House movies being traditionally challenging to market to those in the movie industry who
Apple TV
Most PBS viewers know sister companies Walter Presents and Eagle Eye Drama from popular series like Professor T and Hotel Portofino. Eagle Eye and Walter Presents executive producer Jo McGrath told Telly Visions the company started re-adapting the shows from Walter Presents because she and co-producers Walter Iuzzolino