BBC
David Mitchell’s long-awaited return to the BBC has started filming. The project was announced in May 2023, his first since 2016’s Upstart Crow. BBC Comedy Director Jon Petrie announced at the Comedy Festival in Cardiff that one-half of the team who made That Mitchell & Webb Look would
BritBox
Recalibrating the cop show in an age where terms like “ACAB” and “copaganda” have reached mainstream awareness is no easy task, but despite the vast majority of cop show audiences won’t, in all likelihood, care too much about systemic police corruption, producers and networks are always trying to convince
Netflix
You probably have never heard of Guy Richie's The Gentlemen, a film technically considered a 2019 release because it debuted in December at a film festival and got high marks. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant,
BritBox
Three major long-running reality series in the U.K. are considered the kings of the genre, where every season is a rating smash. The first, Strictly Come Dancing, which began in 2004, airs on ABC here as Dancing with the Stars. The second, The Great British Bake Off, here known
MGM+
For some viewers, the idea of Belgravia: The Next Chapter likely arrives as something of a surprise. The next chapter of what, they might ask, having completely missed out on the original Belgravia despite its buzzy behind-the-scenes pedigree. (The series was one of creator Julian Fellowes' first projects after
PBS
Funny Woman's second episode is another 45 minutes of Barbara Parker / Sophie Straw very casually (and only occasionally with intent) running rings around every man she encounters. Clive Richardson’s smarm doesn’t intimidate her; Dennis Mohindra, Bill Gardner, and Tony Holmes are all delighted to fall under
PBS
Everybody loves a goat unless it’s on the kitchen table or in the pantry, and as All Creatures Great & Small opens this week, Skeldale House is undergoing a caprine invasion by sisters Betty (sore leg) and Hilda (along for the ride). The other guilty party is Siegfried Farnon,
PBS
If the premiere episode of Miss Scarlet & The Duke Season 4 was a disappointing reset to the mean and a retread that felt like the show was stuck treading water, the good news is the second episode is the hour the season premiere should have been. "Six Feet
Movies
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare officially has an opening weekend. The Guy Richie film, based on the true story of Winston Churchill's secret Special Operations Executive in World War II, will fling open its doors and let viewers in on its secrets this coming spring. The would-be blockbuster,
Acorn TV
In 2020, some 62 million households watched The Queen’s Gambit, the Anya Taylor-Joy-led miniseries about a fictional female chess master written and directed by Scott Frank. (Frank created the show with Allan Scott but wrote and directed every episode). With such tremendous, buzzy streaming momentum under him, it’s
Movies
Since actor Maggie Gyllenhaal’s massive success directing her first feature film, The Lost Daughter, Hollywood has been keeping its eyes peeled for hints of her next big project. Those first surfaced in May 2023, with an exclusive report via the website Giant Freakin Robot, which claimed her next film
PBS
Funny Woman has only aired the first episode of Season 1 on most PBS stations, but over in the U.K., Sky Max is gearing up to start filming Season 2. Along with the start of production in Liverpool, the production studio also announced new casting for the new season,