Netflix
Barbie may be the current major high point of director Greta Gerwig's career, but the reason is that it's rather off-brand for her. Previously, the director has behind the last big-screen adaptation of Little Women and Lady Bird, films that are much closer to
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
The Wheel of Time, like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, was supposed to be one of Amazon Prime Video's twin crown jewels of British-ish fantasy, the heirs to Game of Thrones, as it were. However, the best-laid plans of Jeff Bezos failed
BritBox
BritBox has scooped up yet another BBC One hit six months after it's original debut. Granite Harbour, a Scottish-set police procedural that's billed as more drama than mystery, first debuted on BBC Scotland in December 2022, followed by a BBC One debut this past spring.
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Prime Video released the first batch of photos from its upcoming revenge thriller Wilderness, a series about a seemingly happy couple whose marriage falls apart when one learns the other is cheating—and decides to take payback into her own hands. Based on the novel of the same name by
Sundance Now
It's a truth universally acknowledged that often real life can be a whole lot stranger (and often much, much darker) than fiction. This, of course, is a big part of the reason that the true crime genre is so enduringly popular. And the story of Irish criminal and
Netflix
The world of period drama is steadily getting bigger. Not only are we (finally!) getting more stories focused on British periods outside of the Regency (Mary & George, Monstrous Beauty), lavish foreign dramas are rapidly picking up the slack when it comes to historical dramas set outside the United Kingdom.
Culture
On July 14, 2023, seventy-four days into the WGA strike, the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the picket line. The original contract between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expired on Friday, June 30, at 11:59
PBS
PBS’ new series, D.I. Ray, took its sweet time setting up the characters in last week’s premiere, introducing Rachita Ray (Parminder Nagra) as a tenacious officer promoted to Homicides investigating the murder of Imran Aziz, who was feuding with his girlfriend Anjuli’s family and caught up in
PBS
The second episode of Grantchester Season 8 doesn't waste any time on set-up, immediately jumping back into events of last week's dramatic cliffhanger, namely, whether Will Davenport killed a man. And, despite the suspicions of some of us (read: me) that this twist might be
PBS
While PBS is rightly known for the high-caliber British mysteries and sprawling period dramas that can be found under the Masterpiece banner, it's also quietly building a name for itself as a digital and broadcast home for international offerings. Thanks to its embrace of the anthology franchise
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The post-apocalypse is not the ideal place to be stuck with a load of Brits. Whenever we’ve wondered who we’d want in our zombie survival team, we’ve rarely considered that random Brits would make the cut. They automatically have loads of points against them: they love
Paramount+
For any insomniac who’s spent sleepless nights binging TV, Paramount+’s newly announced series Insomnia might be an apt (if on-the-nose) show to add to your watchlist — and if its title is anything to go by; hopefully, it won’t be putting anyone to sleep. Based on