Mystery
The thing about a good police procedural is that it can go on forever because crime never ends. There are always cases to solve, mysteries to uncover, and a deep-seated hunger in the public psyche for the sense of justice and order that provides among the chaos of daily life.
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Amazon Studios have finally ventured north for their latest Brit property – The Rig marks the first Amazon Original produced entirely in Scotland. If you’re looking for Outlander’s sweeping vistas, you’ll be disappointed; The Rig is set almost entirely on an oil rig in the North Sea, filmed
Mystery
There are very few shows where historical period dramas and police procedural mysteries crossover. The lack of shows that meet the criteria of both fandoms is why Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries was so popular and why Miss Scarlet & The Duke is currently such a massive hit for
HBO & HBO Max
What with all the tumult happening over in the world of HBO these days, you may not even be aware that I Hate Suzie returned for a second season over the holidays. (I mean, it's not like the network has done any real promotion of it at all!
Sherlock
Few things are certain in this life, except death, taxes, and the fact that someone, somewhere is bound to ask Steven Moffat about the prospect of there ever being more Sherlock. To be fair, it makes sense: The series was a critical and pop culture phenomenon, making stars of its
PBS
Success begets success in the TV industry. In the U.K., there are very few police procedurals that have reached the levels of Line of Duty, the Jed Mercutio series about the internal investigations into its fictionalized Birmingham police force. Mercutio's HTM Television (Hat Trick Mercurio Ltd) has
Netflix
For a while there, it felt like you couldn't turn around without seeing Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch in something. Whether it was Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy or the Star Trek film where he had to basically lie about the character he was playing, Cumberbatch was
Mystery
Vienna Blood didn't premiere at the most auspicious time, arriving in January 2020 just ahead of the pandemic shutdown and with a lead-in of Masterpiece's first season of Sanditon, which was already canceled before it arrived. With Austria (where the show is filmed) in lockdown, it
Netflix
Netflix kicked off the New Year with an update on one of its most hotly anticipated 2023 properties, the Bridgerton spin-off focused on the story of a young Queen Charlotte. Uncreatively titled Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, the streamer has been teasing this spin-off since before the second season of
All Creatures Great and Small
It was peak timing when the All Creatures Great and Small reboot debuted its first season in the winter of 2021. The first miserable lockdown of winter required the bright and sunny dales of Yorkshire and the notes of comfort and hope the show provided. James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) was
Culture
When Netflix remade the award-winning British series House of Cards in 2013 for its first major release, few understood just how much it would change the way we consume entertainment in the coming decade that followed. But as we round into 2023 and the tenth anniversary of that debut, the
Now Stream This
We're three years into the third decade of the 21st century, and British television is everywhere in the U.S. in a way my childhood self never imagined. While many changes will be coming in the New Year to streaming (and then some), one thing will not change