PBS
Even if Jane Austen's untimely passing hadn't happened, it's highly doubtful she would have lived to see 2025; this year marks the late author's 250th birthday, and as befitting one of the two best selling female authors of all time in the
Movies
After a good few years of overlong, cringingly unfunny, and pandering Academy Awards telecasts, this year’s Oscars had a refreshing sharpness and humor to them – led by host Conan O’Brien, whose enthusiasm, wit, and sincerity uplifted a pretty unsurprising and tired roster of awardees. One pack that fared
Paramount+
John Watson and his team hit the road in Episode 4 of Watson to track down family members of Dr. Lubbock's cadaver from med school when she realized her cadaver exhibited the same symptoms of Cowden Syndrome – a genetic disorder that predisposes its victims to cancer – as a
Paramount+
I have been hard on Paramount and its forthcoming Guy Ritchie original series MobLand. But my anger doesn't stem from the show's bad quality or my irrational dislike of the storied studio. It's because I care. I wanted Paramount+ to succeed when it finally
Movies
Given the state of... well, pretty much everything at the moment, we can probably all use a heartwarming movie that co-stars an adorable animal. If that's the case, mark your calendars for the release of The Penguin Lessons, a fan favorite from last year's Toronto International
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Weather-wise, March roars in like a lion, but when it comes to television, the first month of spring is traditionally a slow starter. There's a lot of reasons the TV schedule tends to shake out that way — the Academy Awards usually eats up the first or second weekend
Netflix
Corby is on the warpath in the second half of Netflix’s Toxic Town – we shift focus to the 2000s where the long-gestating legal case gathers steam against the town council for their negligence that poisoned local pregnant women with toxic waste. But, like a lot of landmark legal wins,
Apple TV
Though most people are probably familiar with Apple TV+ because of singular hits like Ted Lasso or Severance, the streamer has a relatively significant catalog of excellent original dramas that get much less attention (and which far fewer people have heard of). One of its absolute best is For All
BritBox
The Welsh cultural resurgence in the U.K. is one of the feel-good stories of the 2020s, but most Americans have no idea which of the "British" actors they've seen are actually Welsh. (Michael Sheen may be the big exception to this rule, simply because of
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
I will be the first to admit I was wrong about The Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power. Sure, we here at Telly Visions enjoy the series; however, the process of creating those first two seasons was an utter mess, even without the 2020 pandemic and 2023 strike
Netflix
Toxic Town is the story of the Corby Toxic Waste case, a landmark court case dubbed “the British Erin Brockovich” that has now spawned a swift, pacy Netflix miniseries that borrows not just from the formula of the crowd-pleasing Julia Roberts film, but also the 25 years of media about
ITV
Though most Americans think of the BBC when they think of British television, the truth is a lot (and I mean a LOT) of British favorites that cross the pond actually come from the BBC's main rival, ITV. Some of Masterpiece's most popular shows are from