Call the Midwife
Call The Midwife's twelve seasons (and counting) is barely a drop in the bucket compared to most British soap operas and hospital dramas. Coronation Street has been going 63 years, Emmerdale for just over 50. It's not even close to the longest-running primetime medical drama either;
Mystery
As is true of nearly all successful murder mysteries based on books (unless you're adapting Agatha Christie), eventually, the source material runs out. It's a mark of the popularity of Vienna Blood that it hit this point and the production's dedication to the Frank
All Creatures Great and Small
This week’s All Creatures Great & Small carries the punch and emotional weight of the season finale it was in the U.K. (Here in the U.S.A., the season finale is the Christmas Special, airing next week). It’s a moving and brilliant episode as our beloved
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
After a third season that was fairly uneven over the course of its run, Miss Scarlet & the Duke sticks the landing in its Season 3 finale, offering up an episode that's fun to watch, genuinely suspenseful, and full of the sort of great character moments that have
BritBox
Death In Paradise's upcoming spinoff Beyond Paradise is a major deal for the BBC and BritBox. It stars Kris Marshall, the series' most popular detective from the four leads over the show's history, and like The Sister Boniface Mysteries, there's a built-in loyal
Drama
Valentine's Day may be a holiday semi-invented by a conspiracy of florists, chocolatiers, and Hallmark, but that doesn't make it any less of a symbol. It is the halfway point for the shortest (and, let's face it, dreariest) month of the year. Even if
Movies
American audiences are probably most familiar with actor Ralph Fiennes from his turn as the Dark Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films or his Oscar-nominated turns in The English Patient and Schindler’s List. But Fiennes has quietly assembled one of the most eclectic and critically acclaimed careers of
Acorn TV
Most people in the U.S. know Graham Norton as the host of his own titular TV talk show, which is one of the very few British imports BBC America still manages to keep on lock. A few know him as the voice of the U.K.'s Eurovision
Drama
As filming concludes on ITV's adaptation of Bernard Cromwell's The Winter King, U.K. network ITV and producer Bad Wolf (Doctor Who) confirm the massive cast taking part in its upcoming Arthurian adventure series. Based on the bestselling author's Warlord Chronicles -- the series
Netflix
It is said that success can go to the head of actors and celebrities and that they forget where they come from. However, Idris Elba not only keeps it real, one might argue that he has trouble letting go. Luther, the show which put him on the map, ran its
Sanditon
The story of Sanditon has as many plot twists as any good period drama, a road that features multiple dramatic reversals of fortune in the space of just a few years. Though the series initially premiered in the summer of 2019, the show was canceled by U.K. network ITV
FX
Charles Dickens may not quite have the sheer span of centuries as Shakespeare does, but as one of England’s most famous writers, his estate isn’t letting a little thing like “born ~200 years after Shakespeare died” get in the way of that. Give us a couple hundred more