Stonehouse
What is it about faking your own death that appeals to people? For some, it's about defrauding insurance, but for others, it's the idea of starting over with a clean slate as if your life problems won't follow. Unfortunately, the problem most people have
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Prime Video's upcoming massive fantasy series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, isn't technically British television in the traditional sense. However, its connection to one of the most famous sons of Oxford College — author J.R.R. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor
Mood
BBC America was once best known as a chief importer of British programming for American audiences — and still is to some degree, if only as the U.S. linear broadcast home of Doctor Who. However, the rise of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon, with their expansive libraries and significant
The English
As Americans, the idea of the Old West is foundational to our national mythology. Images of cowboys, sharpshooters, prospectors, and Native American tribes lept into the world's collective imagination. That can-do frontier spirit is as much a part of our idea of ourselves as a country as
Karen Pirie
You may not have read Val McDermid's Scottish set mystery series, affectionately known as "Tartan Noir," but you've most likely encountered a TV adaptation or two. Her best-selling Wire in The Blood series was adapted as a three-part mystery back in 2002,
Better Late Than Never
It is not an accident that Line of Duty, a fast-paced thriller with an ever-shifting cast is one of the most popular in the U.K. In a TV landscape full of mysteries (and a culture of a surveillance society), having a story focused around the premise that
Movies
Romeo & Juliet is a formative story for many people. For many readers, it's their first introduction to the work of William Shakespeare and the idea that love doesn't always have a happy ending. (Though, truly, I wish we as a society had managed to take
Comedy
Sex Education star Asa Butterfield posted an Instagram a couple of weeks back of himself on set for Season 4 as Otis, heralding that class was soon to be back in session. But his solo photo did not answer many of the questions fans have about the series' return,
Movies
The Bronte sisters are some of the most famous women in literature, who each managed to write some of the most successful and controversial fiction of the mid-nineteenth century. That they did it all while writing under assumed names and facing bleak personal and family prospects is just one
The Thief His Wife and The Canoe
True crime series have been one of TV's biggest genres in the last decade. The Serial podcast was ground zero for the revival of dramatizing stories about criminals that are almost too bizarre to be believed, and the cottage industry it spawned is still roaring. At this point,
Outlander
Rumors that cable network Starz was working on a prequel based on its megapopular period romance Outlander initially broke earlier this year but, at the time, there was little information about what such a series might entail. Now official confirmation has arrived: The prequel, called Outlander: Blood of My Blood,
The Woman In The Wall
In 2013, the Irish government issued a formal state apology and restitution regarding the secretive institutions surrounding Magdalene Laundries. At the time, it marked the end of a twenty-year scandal sparked by the 1993 discovery of 155 unmarked graves, which led to an investigation into the Roman Catholic institutions