Slow Horses
After all this international espionage, the high-ranking diplomats, and gruesome assassinations, Slow Horses Season 2’s action has revealed its true motive – petty revenge between two old-timers. Humiliation was on the cards for Jackson, River, and the entire intelligence force. Still, we got to the finish line by the skin
Call the Midwife
Though we may have only just celebrated the festive season with our favorite midwives and nuns of Nonnatus House on Call the Midwife, the time has come to turn our thoughts toward the next proper season of the show. Because while Season 12 — yes, really! — won’t arrive in America
Walter Presents
At the 2020 Oscars, Bong Joon Ho famously called out Americans specifically (and the English-speaking world at large) for "the bigotry of one-inch subtitles." However, there was already one man on the case. Walter Iuzzolino, the man behind the Channel 4 streaming anthology franchise Walter Presents, had started
Netflix
Although we'll be saying goodbye to the seaside resort town of Sanditon this spring, the period drama's third and final season won't be the last we see of its star Rose Williams on our screens. Eagle-eyed viewers likely remember seeing her in the period
PBS
As 2023 rolls in, PBS viewers are gearing up for the new year. Since Masterpiece's mega-hit Downton Abbey turned the second Sunday in January into the debut point for period dramas on public broadcast, most local PBS stations now unofficially run programming on a calendar year schedule instead
Tom Jones
As we look toward 2023, PBS Masterpiece is busily slotting all the pieces in place for another year of excellent British TV. All Creatures Great and Small, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, and Vienna Blood all return for their respective third seasons starting in January, and March will see the
The Great British Baking Show
Since Sandi Toksvig's exit from the ten after a few short seasons on Channel 4's newly acquired The Great British Baking Show, the series has had a problem up in front of the tent: Too Much Boy Energy. Matt Lucas, who was already well known in
Starz
Outlander fans got an extra present from Santa this year, as cable network Starz confirmed that the mega-popular period romance will officially return in 2023. The series, known for its swoony central love story, and complicated time-traveling infused plot, will kick off its seventh season this summer (though the official
PBS
It's a new year for the world and a new year of shows on PBS and PBS Passport. Since the debut of Downton Abbey Season 2 in 2012, January has been *the* place for Masterpiece's PBS premieres, from period piece dramas like Victoria and Sanditon making
Mystery
The first season of Annika wasn't the most sparkling of PBS' fall 2022 lineup, but it was a solid series, the kind of workhorse procedural that can run for years without losing the audience's interest. The combination of Nicola Walker (Unforgotten) as the titular Annika
Now Stream This
I was recently asked by someone why they could not just subscribe to one service in the U.S. and get all the British TV series and movies that cross the pond in one place. And while that may yet happen, as the BBC retreats and regroups for a new
Call the Midwife
It’s December 1967, and it wouldn’t be a Call The Midwife Christmas episode without a pageant or other festive community event planned by Fred Buckle. Life in Poplar is slowly returning to normal a few months after the terrible train crash from last season. Fred decides that the