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The BBC has finally released the first images for the second season of Sherwood. The series may sound like a period piece about Robin Hood, but the 2022 critical darling was anything but. It presented itself as a true-crime mystery based on a pair of murders that occurred in the
Netflix
It's a Blue Monday at Netflix, as the streaming service takes the opportunity between Bridgerton Season 3 installments to release the trailer for its next period-piece teenage sex romp, The Decameron. Loosely based (and I mean very loosely based) on the 14th-century Italian short-story collection of the same
PBS
Less than a year after its first season aired on linear on most PBS stations, the U.K. police procedural D.I. Ray is back for a second season. D.I. Ray is one of many shows with a cast and creative team that trace back to the BBC’s
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that of the series that debuted on PBS’ Mystery! in the 1980s, three are considered the defining adaptations of iconic British sleuths: Jeremy Brett in Sherlock Holmes, Joan Hickson in Miss Marple, and David Suchet in Poirot, which eventually was rebranded as Agatha Christie’
AMC/AMC+
The Western Australian series Scrublands is officially coming back for a second season, as Australian streaming service Stan releases the first image now that filming is underway. Based on Chris Hammer’s debut novel of the same name, the series was one of those lost in the niche streaming services
Movies
The Watchers is another one of those films that UK and Irish distributors have judged as having too alienating and unmarketable a title, so it’s been pitched in both Britain and Ireland as The Watched. (The Watchers is an Irish-set and co-produced film) The slight confusion over what Ishana
ITV
ITV has released a first look at its upcoming comedy-drama series Douglas Is Cancelled, a star-studded show with an impeccable pedigree and a seriously questionable premise. In the year of our Lord 2024, do we really need a workplace comedy-drama about cancel culture? We're all about to find
Actors and Actresses
We know him best as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, in the ITV drama Foyle's War, which ran for eight series between 2002 and 2015. But Michael Kitchen has performed in all sorts of roles, from the James Bond franchise to William Shakespeare, on radio, stage, and TV,
Disney/Hulu
Somewhat unintentionally, this season of Doctor Who has somehow managed to spin itself into the most timely thing on television. The Ruby-centric "73 Yards," whose primary villain was an aggressive nationalist and xenophobic politician with his hand on the nuclear trigger, arrived just as real-life Prime Minister Rishi
PBS
It's been a quarter century since the BBC originally commissioned Walking with Dinosaurs, a factual documentary series using 1990s-era state-of-the-art CGI to bring the giant creatures to life. At the time, some protested that the computer-generated creatures were not real; therefore, their "adventures" (presented in the
Netflix
Netflix initially announced in January 2022 that it was partnering with the BBC and beloved Plasticine stop-motion storyteller outfit Aardman Animations to finance more old-school (but sadly expensive) animated films after seeing success with Shaun the Sheep as part of its family offerings. The deal at the time was for
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Sometimes, the more specific something is, the more universal it becomes. Such is the case with the Onyx Collective’s new series, Queenie, streaming on Hulu. The eight-episode series, based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Candice Carty-Williams, follows 25-year-old Queenie (Dionne Brown) during a tumultuous year