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At the mention of psychological black comedy crime films from the 2000s, most people immediately think of Guy Richie's Snatch or In Bruges, the 2008 Irish film starring Colin Farrell. But the genre, which Quentin Tarantino jump-started in the mid-1990s with Pulp Fiction, had already produced its cult
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Nicola Walker's exit as DI Cassie Stuart from the beloved Unforgotten franchise shocked Masterpiece viewers when it aired in the summer of 2021. But in the U.K., where the series had already been broadcast much earlier in the year, audiences were already checking out Walker's
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The penultimate episode of COBRA Season 2 begins with the reveal Firestorm is back online and raising fears about the water supply. "Water systems would be a prime target for a cyber attack," says Fraser Walker, director of Crisis Contingency Secretariat, with his usual talent for the obvious.
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Grantchester's penultimate episode for the season opens with Will playing backgammon at St. Cedd's Care Center, the old folks' home, with Ida Merryman (Anna Calder-Marshall). As befitting someone who used to be on Harlots, she's trying to make it strip backgammon. Matron Fletcher
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BritBox released the three-episode Murder In Provence back in February of 2022, but most viewers could be forgiven for missing it at the time. The year 2022 has been an overwhelming wave of television, and the all-at-once drop of the series meant it was only a blip on the radar.
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Despite its major network backing, NBC streaming service Peacock unfortunately still feels like something of an afterthought to most U.S. viewers, many of whom may not even be aware of the service or the breadth of its original programming slate. This is a shame — not only because Peacock has
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It's Disney Week at the Television Critics Association, which means TV announcement news is heavy on Marvel, Star Wars, and American content and light on the U.K. offerings. But FX, which has been refashioning itself as a brand within the empire since Disney bought parent company 20th
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Over the past few years, most of the non-U.K. offerings on Acorn TV have usually hailed from down under, either Australia or New Zealand, with a few Irish or Canadian shows thrown in for good measure and a couple of Scandi-noir series as foreign language offerings. But the streaming
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As we've seen many times, our pop culture is positively obsessed with England's Tudor family. From the soapy melodrama of King Henry VIII's disastrous marriage track record to the untold stories of the complicated women who essentially all outshone him, we can't
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Peacock's first British shows when it launched, The Capture and Intelligence, were shows set in GCHQ and the world of cyber warfare. Though the streamer's launch schedule was severely hobbled by pandemic and lockdown filming delays, as it rounds into Year 3, Peacock is finally beginning
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Orphan Black was a big surprise hit for BBC America in 2013. The Canadian sci-fi thriller television series by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett launched the career of She-Hulk's Tatiana Maslany. Though the series concluded in 2017, it has already spawned a comic book series, audio dramas, and
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The dog days of summer are here, as kids count down the days until school reopens, and adults take one last vacation before heading back to work. But between the holiday-making and shopping for fall supplies, there are plenty of new shows to catch up on when it gets too