Drama
Sphere-Abacus, the now combined TV indie powerhouse producer, has announced its next series will be Minotaur, a Welsh-French series that's set in Paris and Northern Wales and will star French actor Assaad Bouab (Bad Sisters) and British actor Natalie Dormer (White Lies). The series hailed from Welsh actor-turned-playwright-and-director
Disney/Hulu
Big Boys, the smash hit Channel 4 series that initially debuted in 2022 but didn’t manage to cross the pond until Season 2 won BAFTAs, will sadly draw to a close with Season 3. The 2010s-set sitcom began in Season 1 as “a silly, sweet comedy about two boys
BBC
Australian writer Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North was an international bestseller released in 2014. His sixth novel, the mid-century set story, was based partly on his father's experiences before and during World War II, intermixed with a fictionalized version of Edward “Weary”
Apple TV
Mathematics isn't a subject that most people tend to view as all that exciting. (Though Tom Stoppard devotees who love Arcadia specifically will almost certainly — and rightly! — argue otherwise. However, Apple TV+ is banking on the power of prime numbers in its latest British thriller, Prime Target, a
BritBox
The BBC and BritBox have released the first-look pictures of the highly-anticipated 2025 series Riot Women. The brand-new drama, initially titled Hot Flush*, hails from Sally Wainwright (Last Tango in Halifax) and will be her latest entry into what has become something of a history-making career. Set and filmed in
MGM+
Rogue Heroes*, Stephen Knight’s latest series – at least until A Thousand Blows arrives next month – is back for a second season! In the US, Season 1 can be streamed via Prime Video, and Season 2 is on MGM+. While it’s a bummer to have such a solid, well-acted,
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“A fully-developed bromance” flourishing as they face “trying to solve a major crime at the end of the Austrian Empire.” That’s how Vienna Blood star Juergen Maurer describes the relationship between his character, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, and Dr. Max Liebermann as the pre-Great War mystery series’s fourth (and
PBS
Longtime Vienna Blood viewers will recall that PBS tends to split each season’s feature-length episodes, giving the show a longer run. This time around, those breaks – which have in the past tended strongly towards the clunky – work pretty well. The break between “Mephisto Waltz” and “A Winning Hand” is
PBS
The Season 5 premiere of All Creatures Great & Small delves into the everyday life of wartime Darrowby in 1941. For the inhabitants of Skeldale House, who always seem to be busy, life has become more complicated, with rationing and wartime restrictions, plus the underlying worry about loved ones far
PBS
The Duke is dead, long live the Duke. Though the fictional character who used to hold a spot in the series title has not shuffled off this mortal coil by the end of the Miss Scarlet Season 5 premiere, he is really most sincerely gone. It's hard to
Disney/Hulu
Since the streaming wars took off, cable channels have been in dire straits. Basic cable still has a floor, but all those higher tertiary channels are zombie channels, playing to an audience share of 0.0. BBC America (very much not basic cable) was already in trouble before that reality
Channel 5
Much like most Americans were unaware until recently that Disney owned Hulu, most U.K. (and U.S.) viewers have no idea Channel 5, the network behind All Creatures Great & Small, is owned by Paramount. As we have mentioned, Paramount is in the middle of being sold to Skydance