Netflix
People underestimated Netflix when it started making original programming because they mistook the streaming service for wanting to be HBO (or, at the time, AMC or FX). However, from the beginning, Netflix's goal was to replace TV. Not just TV in the U.S., but in every country;
BBC
Reinvention happens often in the world of television. Whether for narrative or behind-the-scenes reasons, change is hard-wired into the nature of any long-running series, out of necessity if nothing else. Actors leave, storylines fizzle, platforms shift. Grantchester is in its third Hot Priest era. Miss Scarlet had to change its
Disney/Hulu
The historical film Firebrand is the sort of prestige-style movie that rarely gets an extended theatrical run. (To be honest, unless you're popular Oscar bait like Conclave most anything that isn't a big-budget tentpole or franchise entry barely makes it past two weeks at the local
BritBox
Filming is underway for the next big collaboration between ITV and BritBox International, a crime thriller called Code of Silence. ITV initially commissioned the series in mid-2023 for its ITVX streaming service; BritBox boarded the project sometime between that initial announcement and the beginning of filming in October 2024, guaranteeing
Disney/Hulu
Like most U.K. shows that Hulu picks up on its own without the marketing of Disney+, Am I Being Unreasonable? did not make much of an impact when it debuted in 2023. The title didn't help; named after the British version of Reddit's AITA advice
Acorn TV
Acorn TV is on a bit of a roll. In 2024, it released a new season of nearly every fan favorite on the roster, from Harry Wild to My Life is Murder to Whitstable Pearl. Now, on the heels of Inspector Ellis' debut, the streaming service has announced it
Acorn TV
Acorn TV’s new three-part series Inspector Ellis (Ellis in the UK) challenges our preconceptions of a female detective. DCI Ellis (Sharon D Clarke) is a Black woman, no longer young, whose long black coat and brightly colored scarf are a statement of strength and power. She is neither pleasingly
Paramount+
With less than a month until it debuts, the Paramount+/Showtime spy series The Agency is still announcing cast members as it races to complete filming. Starring Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) and Jodie Turner-Smith (Anne Boleyn), this English-language remake of the French series The Bureau (Le Bureau des
Movies
Many films cast great actors in positions of power, conflating their dramatic prestige with a tangible and confident sense of statesmanship. It’s rare for a main cast to consist entirely of leaders of sovereign nations, but a film like Rumours can’t lampoon the po-faced affirmations of progress and
PBS
ITV announced it was commissioning Ridley in June 2021, less than a month after Line of Duty's sixth season concluded. At the time, most viewers assumed Line of Duty Season 7 would still be along in a year or so and didn't think twice about it.
PBS
If the first episode of Wolf Hall was setting up a giant chess board for the Great Game to play out, this week, the power players begin to make their moves. Whereas last week spent an hour slowly building to the arrival of the main focus of our tale, Anne
PBS
The Marlow Murder Club may be the most effective amateur sleuths on television. Judith, Becks, and this week's addition, Suzie (Jo Martin), convened for their first official meeting in the second episode of the series, but they've already learned how to apply their respective skills to