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Happy July, everyone! Summer has officially rolled in, and with it, the most dramatic of weekends: July 4th. No, I'm not talking about hot dogs, fireworks, beaches, and Independence Day concerts on the National Mall broadcast by your local PBS stations. I'm talking about The Election.
Netflix
Netflix has announced the start of filming for Lisa McGee's follow-up series to her hit show Derry Girls, How to Get To Heaven From Belfast. The series was initially announced in September 2023 as a Channel 4 project (the same network that produced Derry Girls), but with budget
PBS
Rachita cannot catch a break on D.I. Ray. She may not have ended up as more collateral damage in a blossoming gang war as we suspected at the end of last week's episode, but it's two steps back for every break she makes in the
PBS
Grantchester has a thing about vicars and their vehicles. Sidney had the bicycle, Will had the motorbike, and now here comes our newest Rev Alphy Kotteram (Rishi Nair) rolling up to the front door in a little red roadster. It doesn't make any of what transpires next any
PBS
It is unclear how much time has passed since the second episode, but this week finds the Professor at his trial for the attempted murder of Simon Lanesborough. Simon’s crookedness is not questioned, but what happened to him is not mentioned. Was he jailed? We don’t see him
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Just when you think there couldn’t possibly be more to say about a certain deerstalker-wearing British detective, another adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes enters the ring. This time around, Amazon Prime is plumbing the depths of Sherlock’s early life for the upcoming series Young Sherlock.
Feature
When people think of long-running series on PBS, they think of Sesame Street, Antiques Roadshow, and Agatha Christie's Poirot. But the Inspector Morse Universe began in 1988 on Mystery!, spanned Masterpiece's 2007 merger for brands and the move to Sunday nights from Thursdays under Inspector Lewis,
Movies
The problem with writing about the forthcoming third Downton Abbey movie is that there's not much to write about. The newest installment of what has become a surprisingly long-lived feature film series since the first Downton Abbey movie was a blockbuster in 2019 began filming in the waning
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Prime Video's adaptation of My Lady Jane is fiercely feminist, funny, and extremely creative with history, so don’t expect the right sort of gable hoods in this adventurous fantasy. Author Cynthia Hand is one of a trio of writers (with Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows) who collaborated
Apple TV
Just when Apple TV+ seemed to have gotten into a groove, the little streaming service that no one watches other than critics decided to shake things up. The streaming service has a small group of reliable hits among its offerings (hits being an extremely relative term), with Slow Horses being
Disney/Hulu
Hulu has dropped the first teaser for Rivals, its upcoming adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s best-selling 1988 novel of the same name. Technically based on the second installment in her bestselling Rutshire Chronicles series, the uber-soapy saga follows all the sex, scandal, and betrayal happening among the upper-class families of
AMC/AMC+
If you’re looking for a sexy, BIPOC-led, mile-a-minute witch series set in present-day North England – something audiences should always be looking for at all times – you could do a lot worse than Domino Day: Lone Witch. The six-part first season (a second season has yet to be announced) launched