BritBox
Irvine Welsh is best known in the U.S. as the author of Trainspotting, a series of short stories set in Edinburgh focusing on the heroin epidemic of the early 1990s from the point of view of the addicts. That novel was the basis of the 1996 film, which turned
PBS
Annika is not the type of series that stands on ceremony or sits around waiting on a lot of preamble. It's part of the benefit of a series where every week is a new case, and there's not much in the way of significant arcs throughout
PBS
Season 2 of World on Fire doesn’t spend any time in recapping Season 1 or bridging the gap of the last three and a half years away, throwing us straight into 1941 and bombing attacks on Manchester. Lois (Julia Brown) and Connie (Yrsa Daley-Ward), once a double musical act
PBS
The second season of PBS’s Hotel Portofino kicks off with some stunning news: It seems the marriage of Lucian and Rose is not going well. I know, I know. Who would have thought that an arranged marriage between two people who have absolutely nothing in common wouldn’t work
BritBox
American audiences are likely first learning about the tragic deaths of Peter Farquar and Ann Moore-Martin thanks to the BritBox true crime drama The Sixth Commandment. The four-part series dramatizes the crimes of Ben Fields, a charismatic student who drugged, gaslit, and finally murdered Farquar, in Buckinghamshire in 2015. (And
Movies
With All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh (Weekend, Looking) has made a film that’s about a few things. Foremostly, it’s about ghosts – literal ghosts, but also figurative ones, phantoms created by emotions we don’t know what to do with or feel like forgetting. All of Us Strangers
Drama
The first images have arrived for the upcoming BBC drama The Way, a series that follows the story of an ordinary family caught up in an extraordinary chain of events that ripple out from their hometown. The three-part series is particularly notable as it marks the television directorial debut of
Netflix
Netflix has released the full trailer for its time-bending police procedural Bodies, in which a murder victim somehow mysteriously reappears across multiple eras. Based on a graphic novel by Si Spencer and Dean Ormston, this seemingly impossible murder mystery is spread across four distinct time periods and features four different
Netflix
This week's opening sketch is a throwback to the really good old days of Sue and Mel, as Alison Hammond peppers Noel Fielding with questions he can answer about The Great British Baking Show, from what's the difference between flan and tart to defining an even
Orphan Black
It's been over a decade since Orphan Black premiered in March 2013 on BBC America. Viewers may not remember that the weird little Canadian series starring the then-unknown Tatiana Maslany started out as a series about a con-artist who takes over the life of someone who happens to
PBS
You don’t need me to tell you how awful things are right now. War. Devastating fires and earthquakes. A political landscape that sends shivers down your spine on the daily. If you are looking for TV to provide you with an escape from the world’s terrors, Little Bird
Acorn TV
Streamer Acorn TV has announced it will exclusively premiere the 2022 limited series Mayflies this October, a heartfelt exploration of male friendship and the lengths we're willing to go to for the people we care most about. Based on Andrew O’Hagan’s bestselling (and award-winning!) 2020 novel