Apple TV
Season 1 of Apple TV+'s mystery/thriller Surface introduced audiences to amnesia victim Sophie Ellis (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). A gorgeous, wealthy woman British expat in San Francisco, she wakes up having fallen off a boat with none of her memories. Aside from her seemingly doting husband James (Oliver Jackson-Cohen)
Movies
If you haven’t been paying attention to Daisy Ridley’s career since she last played Rey in 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, then you’ve missed out on the joy of watching the actress prove her talents in a series of really interesting roles in a
Exclusive
If you’re a fan of getting nosey about other people’s suburban sins, both sexy and sordid, then The Couple Next Door certainly delivered on its promise. In just six episodes, viewers got to witness the undoing of two separate neighboring couples, Danny and Becka Whitwell, played by Sam
Movies
If you need a dose of joy in your life, there is no better remedy than the National Theatre Live’s The Importance of Being Earnest. This production of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy originally ran at London’s Lyttleton Theatre from November 2024 to January 2025. Now, thanks to
Starz
I was pretty cheeky at the top of my recap for The Couple Next Door premiere. I assumed critics just didn't know how to have a good time anymore and suspend disbelief in favor of entertaining messiness. It turns out, and I hate to admit it, the critics
Apple TV
Two and a half years ago, the season finale of Apple TV+'s Surface had its amnesiac protagonist, Sophie Ellis (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), instigate a massive cliffhanger and then knock off to London, escaping a lot of mess she created in San Francisco. It wasn’t until December 2022 that
Disney/Hulu
From writer/creator Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) comes Hulu’s A Thousand Blows, a stylish series about the rough and tumble streets of London’s East End in the 1880s. Mixing boxing, a gang of female thieves, and stories of immigration, the result is a remarkably entertaining six-episode first season.
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
It took 65 years for James Bond to finally exit the U.K., but as of February 20, 2025, the man with a license to kill is officially an Amazon employee. The nearly decade-long saga of the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos' quest for the right to
BBC
Irish author Marian Keyes is a success story out of a novel. After growing up in Limerick, she moved to London only to suffer depression and addiction. But in the depths of her recovery, she began to write short stories drawn from her family experiences, only to have her editor
Channel 4
Not content to simply travel through time and space in the TARDIS these days, current Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies is now also working on a brand new LGBTQ+ drama for the British network Channel 4 that sounds almost painfully timely in its subject matter. Titled Tip Toe, the
Peacock
Despite the incessant rumors surrounding Line of Duty's return, U.K. viewers already have a solid replacement, and it's not any of the shows that followed from creator Jed Mercurio in the wake of the series' sixth (and so far final) season. As much as
PBS
When the executives behind Walter Presents, Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino, decided to start a production company to remake their most popular foreign language hits in English, choosing Professor T was a no-brainer. The original three-season Belgian version was a hit in the U.S. and the U.K., plus