Tom Jones
Henry Fielding's classic eighteenth-century novel Tom Jones: A Foundling is one of the first works of literature that can rightly be called a novel as modern readers understand it, yet its story is much less frequently adapted than stories by several of the later authors his work
Comedy
Most British dramas do not run on an open-ended format like American ones. It can cause problems, for example, Killing Eve, where the British team behind it was not prepared for AMC to constantly renew the series, and it eventually went off the rails. However, most of the time,
Feature
Anyone familiar with the British TV landscape likely remembers the time almost exactly 10 years ago when BBC staple Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary with the dazzling episode “The Day of the Doctor.” Between all the cameos and callbacks, one element that held the whole episode together often goes
MGM+
Julian Fellowes' follow-ups to Downton Abbey have struggled to follow in the wake of global success. Though Belgravia didn't spend a decade in development hell moving from platform to platform like The Gilded Age or attempt to make Americans care about English footballing history like The
HBO & HBO Max
The BBC had a run of hit programming during the 2021-2022 TV season, with Vigil, The Tourist, Time, and The Responder all received as critical darlings with high viewer ratings. All four were renewed in a batch drop announcement in May 2022, despite both Time and The Tourist being
HBO & HBO Max
Early into HBO’s new raw and worthwhile dramedy, Rain Dogs, Selby (Jack Farthing) uses the phrase “poverty voyeur” to characterize the date who just showed up for main character Costello Jones (Daisy May Cooper). In lesser hands, it felt like that could have easily described this show’s audience,
All Creatures Great and Small
Since the debut of the second season of All Creatures Great & Small, viewers have known the series would be back for two more seasons. The two-season renewal announcement came on January 10, 2022, less than 24 hours after the Season 2 premiere on PBS. Moreover, the when of
Citadel
We here at Telly Visions concentrate on British TV series and movies (and Canadian/Australian/New Zeland based productions, sometimes with a side of German or French fare). However, the major streaming services we cover are all American-based, and most of what they produce is American-focused. Netflix has
A Thousand Blows
Stephen Graham (Time) and Malachi Kirby (Small Axe) are set to star in Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight's upcoming Disney+ period drama A Thousand Blows, a story set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London. Loosely based on real-life figures and stories, the
BritBox
The BBC initially commissioned Season 1 of The Cleaner in August 2020, during what felt like a never-ending pandemic. The show's premise was inspired by the times, starring a guy in the hazmat suit whose job was to come in and clean and disinfect various locations after
Paramount+
Paramount+'s deep dive into British and European TV series is already paying dividends, even if its titles have not yet reached American shores. The streaming service spent the back half of 2022 greenlighting project after project to help build out its service beyond the very American Star Trek
Movies
British rom-com and Sundance darling Rye Lane will debut on Hulu in March 2023. In this homage to the genre and to the South London neighborhood in which it is set, a pair of 20-somethings collide in a classic meet-cute and help each other heal from heartbreak.