Netflix
It's always hard to judge a new series before it debuts. Case in point: Netflix's forthcoming Black Doves, first confirmed in mid-2023. The series was initially presented as a Keira Knightley (Pride & Prejudice) vehicle, a big-budget thriller drawing the big-screen star back to television. Then
Peacock
The Jackal apparently won't be tamed any time soon. NBC streamer Peacock and U.K. network Sky have renewed the splashy thriller series The Day of the Jackal for a second season --- before the first has even finished airing in America. Based on the novel by Frederick
Movies
The winds of change have reached a remote coastal village, and, in the space of a week, all signs of life will be swallowed whole by the pressing urges of modernity. It’s a place too insignificant for the film Harvest to disclose where or when it is; the audience
Starz
Starz has confirmed a January premiere date for its buzzy psychological thriller The Couple Next Door. The six-part series, which stars Anglophile favorites Sam Heughan (Outlander) and Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) aired on the U.K. network Channel 4 late last year, and will finally come to America to kick off
Netflix
Before we break down this week's semifinal episode of The Great British Baking Show (which went exactly as most suspected), I was to talk about Paul Hollywood. (Yes, again.) The show's 100lb gorilla continues to be the production's most significant problem, not just because
BBC
One of the U.K.’s long-standing traditions is telling ghost stories at Christmas. The most famous, of course, is A Christmas Carol, in which a rich man is terrorized into paying his staff a living wage. However, Dickens was merely following a tradition older than he was; Victorian writers
Netflix
Netflix and the BBC have confirmed that the popular teen thriller A Good Girl's Guide to Murder will be back for another round of teenage crime-solving. The series' first season introduced Pippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi, a young true crime enthusiast who becomes convinced her small town's
BritBox
The Sherwood Season 2 premiere showed how entangled the Nottingham community is. The second-week episodes make an even bigger mess of those entanglements by throwing in some miscommunication. No one is talking to anyone, or if they are, they are talking to the wrong people. As expected, things will get
Netflix
Even though it was apparent when Netflix confirmed Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl would debut on New Year's Weekend that the film would first drop on the BBC on Christmas Day, Auntie Beeb did not outright confirm it at the time. Instead, the British Broadcaster waited until
Better Late Than Never
The COVID-19 pandemic was a significant blow to the entertainment industry. From large-scale complications like multi-year production delays (or outright series cancellations) to subtler shifts in audience viewing habits, the repercussions are still echoing today. The long-term production delays meant networks had to adapt, whether shifting streaming-only hits to broadcast,
PBS
Despite the awkwardness of the series name, critics and reviewers loved Gemma Arterton's first season of Funny Woman. (So-called because it's adapted from the Nick Hornsby novel Funny Girl, a title already taken by a rather famous musical.) However, viewers, assuming the title was a comedy,
MGM+
As the casualties of the streaming wars fall, we are in the awkward stage where failing streaming services are picking up programming that no one watches. It is a pity when shows that land on Sundance Now or IFC don't get simultaneous releases on Acorn TV because no