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A British comedy you might have missed in 2023 is getting a second chance to find its audience with a second season currently underway, featuring two beloved guest stars. Avoidance is a comedy-drama made for BBC One, co-created by Benjamin Green (Romantic Getaway) and Romesh Ranganathan (Staged). Fans
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With its mix of murder mystery, criminal intrigue, and personal strife, Criminal Record established in its premiere that it would be an intense series. Suffice it to say, they upped the ante a lot in the show’s third outing. The episode, aptly titled “Kid in the Park,” kicks off
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American fans of The Honourable Phryne Fisher first met her via PBS in the mid-2010s when PBS picked up the quirky Australian 1920s-era mystery Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, based on author Kerry Greenwood's historical mystery novels. However, the series didn't really hit
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It's been nearly two years since Apple TV+ first announced Noel Fielding would be trading in on his American fame from hosting The Great British Baking Show to land a spot in the Apple TV+ roster of comedy shows. Though Fielding was known among British comedy aficionados for
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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