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The problem with Unforgotten is that it often tries to cram too many elements into any given case. That was the problem with that initial first season, it wasn't just the 1970s economic situation; it wasn't just a toxic marriage, or closeted gay man who made
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The Marlow Murder Club has solved another murder, but this one may not feel as victorious as the others. The body found at the end of "Death on the Close: Part 1" belonged to Seb Teller, who was murdered in June 2009 when he was only 20 years
PBS
The title of this week’s Professor T episode, “You Can’t Kill Me,” along with Aunt Zelda opening things with a tarot card reading, suggests a more playful story. The unraveling of this week’s murder is far sadder than what the expectations set. Yet it also manages to
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When Call the Midwife first debuted back in 2012, it was one of the BBC's biggest out-of-the-box hits with audiences right from the jump. It was so popular, PBS jumped on board right away, bringing the first season across the pond before the end of the year. However,
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Biscuit week opens with no skit welcoming us to The Great British Baking Show, just a drone flyover of the small river that runs through Welford Park in Berkshire. I think this is the first time the show has used drones for casual filming shots, and for TV geeks like
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BritBox’s newest reboot of a classic detective series, Lynley, premiering this month on both sides of the Atlantic, boasts a formidable cast led by Leo Suter (Sanditon) as the titular aristocratic DI Tommy Lynley and Sofia Barclay (Prime Target) as his working-class sidekick Barbara Havers. Elizabeth George, on whose
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It took three seasons, but World War II is finally coming to an end in All Creatures Great & Small. After the Season 5 Christmas special closed out with the end of 1942, the show is hitting its first significant time jump and picking back up in mid-1945 for Season
Netflix
It’s been a year and a half since Netflix initially announced it had snapped up the rights to adapt Grown Ups, the best-selling novel by Irish writer Marian Keyes. Originally part of a blockbuster upcoming slate revealed in March 2024, Grown Ups was initially included in a line-up that
Books
So much of the most well-known adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice work because of the visuals: the hand flex, the wet white shirt, the general brooding. But Audible’s recently released audio-only adaptation exhilarates the sounds; a Dove chocolate bar commercial of stillness and escapism crammed into
BBC
It was mid-July 2025 when we first got word of The Detection Club, a forthcoming mystery series reportedly in the works from BritBox and the BBC. However, at the time, neither production studio would confirm the series, which was reportedly going to be based on the real-life group that included
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Over the past decade, streaming platforms have increasingly claimed ownership of material typically found in anonymous airport paperbacks and Lifetime movies. These are scandal-driven tales of taboos, secrets, and betrayal, all couched within a sleek facsimile of domestic luxury and social ambition. Sure, there are critiques of class biases and
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There is an accepted truism about historical period dramas as a way for our culture to process the current landscape more easily than dealing with the present reality. Taking the issues of the day and running them through a funhouse mirror of the past makes it easier for audiences to