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It’s been two years since the BBC’s last Agatha Christie miniseries adaptation, Murder is Easy, and our mystery-loving bodies are ready for what’s next. And that is the BBC and BritBox’s Towards Zero. The three-night event is an adaptation of Christie’s 1944 novel about family
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The world of Agatha Christie – spread over dozens of novels and decades of big and small screen adaptations – has such a distinct tonal and structural language that you can spend an entire hour inside one of her mysteries and only clock by the end that the inciting murder hasn'
HBO & HBO Max
It’s no secret that The Gilded Age on HBO has not come close to replicating the success of Downton Abbey (the series that inspired it) once was on PBS. It’s not the fault of series creator Julian Fellowes (the creative force behind both shows); the landscape of TV
Starz
While many Outlander fans are likely already in the feelings about the flagship show's impending conclusion — the final season has already been shot, though it's likely to be split in half and unlikely to begin airing before the end of the year — it's a
FX
There are two sports in the U.K. that the average American doesn't understand. The best-known is cricket, a not-exactly baseball variant offshoot that includes sticky wickets and cow corners. (No, I don't know what those mean either.) The other is football — not American football with
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Sweeping war epic The Narrow Road to the Deep North has finally bound a U.S. distributor, and its premiere date is sooner than anyone likely expected. Prime Video, whose Australian arm played a key role in the creation of the drama, has announced a surprise (and rather sudden) release
PBS
Mirrors! Lights! Camera! Action! It’s time for another spin through the lookbooks of Wolf Hall's second season, The Mirror and The Light, in search of the most remarkable costumes. This week's column will cover Episodes 2 through 4 ("Obedience," "Defiance," and
PBS
Who would expect that when Call the Midwife premiered a decade and a half ago, we’d still be enamored with the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House all this time later? We’ve watched Trixie (Helen George) graduate to become a senior nurse, wife, and mother. Nurse Turner (Laura
Tubi
HBO and Max are betting big on a certain family-oriented franchise about a poor kid whose life is magically changed for the better when he gets an invite to go away to an exclusive boarding school where the residents are used to a very different, far more rarified lifestyle. However,
AMC/AMC+
It's a truth universally acknowledged that the entertainment industry is reticent to take risks on unknowns. It's why there are so many shows based on pre-existing properties, spawned from books, video games, films, and even other television series. Often these sequels, prequels, and tangentially adjacent properties
Acorn TV
When Murdoch Mysteries was announced for Season 18, every press release made note that the new season would bring the series to a landmark milestone when it reached Episode 10, “The Men Who Sold the World”: 300 episodes. That may not sound so impressive in a world of streaming insanity,
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Wolf Hall is dominated by themes of marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth, a primary concern for the first two generations of Tudors, which only loomed larger as Henry started going through wives like tissue paper, as he does in The Mirror & the Light. The Church controlled marriages for centuries in