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With only a few days left in April, the final pieces of the May streaming schedules are coming together, with a slew of release dates for the coming month. It's a crowded schedule from shows like Ridley Road on May 1 to Pistol on May 31st, with movies
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The Ipcress File was a smash hit when it debuted on ITV in March 2022, holding its own in the ratings against Peaky Blinders' final season. Fans have known for a while that the series had been picked up over here by AMC Networks and was planned for a
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Apple TV+'s upcoming series The Essex Serpent has all the hallmarks of a prestige period piece: It's based on Sarah Perry's bestselling historical novel; its story wrestles with complex issues of superstition, faith, and belief; and it's full of atmospheric establishing shots
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Julian Fellowes' deeply ambitious Downton Abbey follow-up hit, The Gilded Age, takes the format of the original hit series—the upstairs-downstairs look at the changing times and technologies of the era—and attempts to recreate it for American shores, only bigger. After all, what is America known for but
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In Harry Wild's final two episodes, the series tackles a mystery centered around our new virtual Zoom lives and one filled with vintage clothing and twisted fairy tales. Ep. 7: "The Mystery of Granny Susan’s Fun Time Wig" The Henderson family celebrates Granny Susan’s
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Sanditon Season 2 may have only just concluded on-air, but fans can breathe easy this time around: there's no agonizing question of whether or not the story of the seaside resort town will continue. The announcement of the period drama's surprise resurrection from the dead in
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Finally, Jack is back. Anne Lister (Suranne Jones, Scott & Bailey), industrialist, writer, explorer, and LGBTQ+ champion, bursts once more onto our small screens with Gentleman Jack Season 2. Add a wife to that list of accomplishments since she and Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle, Peaky Blinders) exchanged vows and rings
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Sally Rooney's Normal People was a surprise hit for Hulu when it debuted in 2020. The series, which was a co-production between BBC Three, Ireland's RTE, and the American streaming service, was assumed to be, like most British titles on Hulu, something that would do well
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The limited series remake of The Time Traveler's Wife has been a long-gestating property. HBO first announced it had won the rights to the project in 2018, after a protracted battle with other streaming services, as part of its planned series for the launch of HBO Max. But
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What a difference a season makes. As Sanditon ends Season 2 safe in the knowledge that it will be back for a third, everything about its finale feels different. Season 1, which aired in America after the news broke that the series was canceled, its open-ended finale that separated its
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As we return to Poplar on Call the Midwife, we immediately notice the Nonnatus staff is depleted. As you probably recall, Nurses Franklin and Crane left home at the end of the last episode; Trixie to nurse her ailing godmother in Italy, Phyllis set out on her dream holiday trip
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For whatever reason, Persuasion is the least frequently adapted of Jane Austen's classic novels, with only a handful of major onscreen versions, versus what can often feel like dozens of takes on stories like Pride and Prejudice or Emma. Whether this is because of its prickly older heroine