Doctor Who
Since the reveal that Ncuti Gatwa would take over the leading role in Doctor Who from Jodie Whittaker in 2023, speculation has run rampant over what the actor will bring to the part. The Rwandan-born Scottish actor is the first Black actor to take the leading role in the
The Capture
The Capture first debuted in America on Peacock during the heart of the pandemic, in the summer of 2020. The series, which had already aired in the U.K. in the fall of 2019, waited until the Peacock pickup to greenlight a second series, so it's already been
Archie
Most people know Cary Grant as the debonair romantic lead of such films as His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby or the famous scene of him chased by an airplane in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. But the British-American actor, born Archibald Alec Leach in January
Sexy Beast
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
Annika
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
PBS
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.
Grantchester
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
Murder In Provence
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
Comedy
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
The Veil
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
Recipes for Love and Murder
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
My Lady Jane
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