Acorn TV
Acorn TV has become the home of cozy crime series of all sorts. However, unlike the shows on BritBox, it tends to lean into shows that aren't set in the U.K. There are multiple shows where characters solve crimes in New Zealand and Australia, the Republic of
PBS
Long-time public television fans will probably have picked up by now that, no matter what happens in a given year, there is always one guaranteed Shakespeare production that airs on Great Performances in May as the TV season draws close. Most years, it comes via a broadcast of whatever
Paramount+
This week was our chance to get to know the more introverted twin, Stephens Croft (Peter Mark Kendall), on Watson. Stephens took center focus when his camgirl girlfriend, Porsche (Sofia Kane) was brought in as the patient of the week. Before the team could figure out what was wrong with
PBS
Marie Antoinette sought to paint the much-maligned monarch in a new light – as a likeable, sympathetic figure that history has marred through a misogynistic lens. Far from the poster child for excess and out-of-touch aristocracy, we meet Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) when she is just a teenager. At
AMC/AMC+
David Attenborough’s masterly BBC series Planet Earth: Asia, which concluded its run on BBC America and AMC+ in early March 2025, ends tentatively optimistic for the future. After Attenborough's guidance through remote, seemingly inhospitable parts of the world, where rare species adapt to harsh environments, it turns
HBO & HBO Max
It took three seasons and the addition of a well-known HBO star, but the undermarketed, critically adored series Industry finally broke out in the U.S. after existing for two seasons as a smash hit in the U.K. Set in the world of high finance, the series exists
Actors and Actresses
How do you know a British actor is becoming a national treasure in real time? In the case of Stephen Graham, it’s the fact that every type of audience – British TV watchers, exciting thriller fans, and film auteur fanatics – has unanimously recognized the actor’s singular, invaluable talents across
BBC
The BBC has officially set a premiere date for the high-profile awards-bait series This City Is Ours, one of the primary titles the British Broadcaster commissioned in early 2024 along with such other ambitious projects like a filmed version of the hit West End stage production Dear England
Apple TV
After months of rumors and speculation, Apple TV+'s worst-kept secret is officially official: Ted Lasso, the Emmy-winning comedy that racked up awards season hardware and became the streamer's most popular series (at least until the second season of Severance came along), will return for
Netflix
It’s easy to praise Netflix’s new drama series Adolescence. Creators Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham have a skill not just for seeing a criminal drama through the “law” stage of booking and processing, but also for stewing in the stressful purgatory before the trial and “order” to explain
PBS
Since the series' debut in 2012, Call the Midwife has been the gold standard of ensemble period pieces. It ushered in a new era of cooperation between the BBC and PBS, where a BBC show was allowed to premiere the same day on PBS as it did in the
Netflix
If the real world feels like it's getting a little too much for you these days, don't worry, Netflix's dystopian techno-horror anthology Black Mirror is coming to make you feel at least a little better that things aren't worse. A modern-