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As is often the case in murder mysteries, a man behaved very badly and everyone in his proximity paid dearly. In the BBC and BritBox’s miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, the collateral all told is two murders — Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston) and her estate barrister,
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The introduction of any new companion to the world of Doctor Who tends to follow a few predictable patterns: The Doctor usually meets a new traveling partner on Earth, introducing them to the existence of things like aliens and the concept of time travel in a familiar environment before whisking
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Credit to Towards Zero, a good murder mystery solution should feel, in retrospect, inevitable, even if we didn’t necessarily see them coming. Granted, the small number of suspects in Towards Zero meant that the grand reveal of Neville Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) as the killer was pretty likely. Purely numerically,
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No one can deny that one of the significant appeals of historical series is the sweeping vistas and landscapes, not to mention the ancient architecture and buildings. This is also true of contemporary series; for instance, Death in Paradise is all about getting to stare at the Caribbean in the
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It would be impossible to list out all the various adaptations of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, even if one were to stick to only those committed to film. Moreover, much like Pride & Prejudice, feature-length stories of the star-crossed lovers seem to function on a generational scale
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Despite technically referring to two completely different languages, the word "Gaelic" is one that's fraught with emotional baggage in the U.K., as the last century saw the Irish variant become the language of rebellion and terrorists in the most recent major bout of "The
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In the first episode of the BBC and BritBox miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, there was an abundance of table setting (literally and figuratively) to introduce Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), her assistant Mary (Anjana Vasan) and the ensemble of family and friends who orbit her bed
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Inspector Leach (Matthew Rhys) survived his fall from the Devon sea cliffs at the end of Towards Zero’s premiere. As there were no dead bodies in the first episode, the cliffhanger of the depressed, alcoholic police officer trying to kill himself seemed like it would be the only death
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It’s always the ones you least suspect, as the season finale of Ludwig kicks off with a shocking plot twist. The previous episode ended with Holly calling Lucy, saying she needed to speak to her about her husband. But if you thought we would see that meeting, you were
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Get ready to return to the world of the Dreaming this summer. Netflix has at long last confirmed that its critically acclaimed adaptation of The Sandman will (finally!) return this July, split into two parts (or "volumes") with release dates three weeks apart. (While the staggered release schedule
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It's no secret that AMC Networks, the parent company that owns AMC+, BBC America, Shudder, Sundance Now, Acorn TV, and several others, is not performing well in the current phase of the streaming wars. The only owner of multiple streaming services not to roll up all its offerings
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BritBox is chugging along in 2025, full steam ahead, no holds barred, cozy crime caper after cozy crime caper, with a few A-list British actors starring in horrifying thrillers in between and the occasional reality series. April highlighted all of those aspects with Ludwig, the David Mitchell-starring, “case-of-the-week mystery-crime-comedy-drama.” Now