Paramount+
Any questions about why there is barely any buzz around Paramount+’s MobLand, which like Netflix’s splashy The Gentlemen, was partially directed by British crime king Guy Ritchie (Ritchie created The Gentlemen, while Top Boy’s Ronan Bennett created MobLand) are swiftly answered by the premiere episode – no-one is
Movies
The War of the Roses will recommence this summer...just not quite in the way many Anglophiles likely expect. (Sadly, there are no Plantagenets or Lancasters to be found.) Feature film The Roses is officially set to arrive in theaters this August, a reimagining of the 1989 dark comedy The
Peacock
The first Eurovision Song Contest since the American and U.K. elections were held is only a few weeks away, and it feels like the contest is trying to treble down on the dream of a unified Europe. Technically, "peace through the universal language of music" is the
Acorn TV
Welsh dramas and noir-ish mysteries are all the rage at the moment, and Acorn TV is finally getting into the act. Not content to watch its competitor BritBox land all the buzzy new Welsh titles like Tree on a Hill and Death Valley, the streamer has scooped up the six-part
Movies
Sony Pictures Classics’ The Penguin Lessons is an adaptation of Tom Michell’s 2016 memoir of the same name about his teaching career in Buenos Aires in 1976 and how his unexpected adoption of a wild penguin changed his life and the lives of the students and teachers around him.
PBS
Because of the vagaries of the spring schedule, April is a funny time at PBS Masterpiece, programing-wise. It's either jam-packed with premieres and finales because everything is three or four episodes long, or it gets skipped altogether because the March premieres fell on the late side of the
Paramount+
No matter what TV critics tell you, we really don't know anything about why a show hits. We can guess and extrapolate data; if we're reporters for certain newspapers, we can go find a diner in the middle of nowhere and ask folks what they watch
BritBox
The third episode of Ludwig starts off with the discovery of a dead body inside a church belonging to Megan (Ella Bruccoleri), a 21-year-old American tour guide who was murdered on the last stop of the Cambridge tour she gives every day. Ludwig and Carter set about interviewing everyone who
Movies
Downton Abbey is revving up for one more round of storytelling on the big screen, but after this, the story is done. Thus proclaims the third movie's new title, Downton Abbey: The Grande Finale, revealed by Focus Features along with the poster key art for the film. The
PBS
Get out your dancing shoes because it's officially 1970 in Poplar. The doctors, nuns, nurses, and midwives of Call the Midwife enter the new decade in the upcoming Season 14. While the new decade brings medical advancements, it also brings more complicated politics and new enemies for Nonnatus
BritBox
The 2024-2025 TV season is quickly wrapping up, as the next few weeks will be the debuts of all sorts of shows looking for a little awards love, at least here in the States. The Emmy Awards, the U.S.' official national television honors, are one of the few
Paramount+
The rush to get MobLand out by the end of March so that the finale would air before the 2024-2025 Emmy nominations eligibility period ended on June 1 has been edging on desperate. No one wants to admit defeat in the streaming wars, nor do they want to be swept