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The highly-anticipated return of The Madame Blanc Mysteries to Acorn TV for the rest of Season 3 began when the Christmas special ended in December 2023. Unlike Channel 5, where the series airs in the U.K., Madame Blanc does not immediately follow with the rest of the season beginning
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Christmas may only come once a year, but for shows like The Madame Blanc Mysteries and Call The Midwife, Americans get a double dose of celebration. Unlike in the U.K., where the Christmas specials function basically as kick-offs to the new seasons — in Madame Blanc's case, they
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Most of the time, when people think of a "long-running weekly mystery series," the first things that come to mind are British shows. That's not an unfair reaction; between the launch of the government-funded BBC network and the plethora of Shakepearean-trained talent, the tiny island that
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In 2020, some 62 million households watched The Queen’s Gambit, the Anya Taylor-Joy-led miniseries about a fictional female chess master written and directed by Scott Frank. (Frank created the show with Allan Scott but wrote and directed every episode). With such tremendous, buzzy streaming momentum under him, it’s
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The holidays were a busy time, between people burning up use-or-lose vacation days, holidays with families, and many holiday specials on television. With the end of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, it was also a busy time for the entertainment business, as shows that had been paused finally got to
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Acorn TV is known for its British series like Bloodlands, Steeltown Murders, and Mrs. Sidhu Investigates. It also has quite a few popular French series as well, like Candice Renoir, Balthazar, and Missing Angel. But its most recent hits seem to combine the two, with Cannes Confidential, The Madame Blanc
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Cozy crime mysteries have been proliferating during the streaming era; however, the multiplication factors of streaming services and shows have made it a little hard to keep up. One could forgive fans for not being sure exactly which one The Madame Blanc Mysteries is at first blush. It sounds like
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Among the British mystery TV set, only Silent Witness currently beats out Midsomer Murders for the longest-running series still producing episodes today. However, Silent Witness, for whatever reason, never really caught on in the States, partly because it wasn't based on a preexisting novel and, therefore, not picked
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In the 21st century, most of us take DNA testing to solve crimes for granted, but it was not that long ago that such evidence was not even possible, let alone routinely used. Moreover, it certainly wasn't possible for anyone to trace the DNA of someone after they
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Acorn TV will premiere true crime drama Steeltown Murders this November, a four-part drama about the hunt for the Saturday Night Strangler, and the pioneering use of DNA evidence that helped finally identify a murderer, over a decade after his death. American audiences may not be terribly familiar with the
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Hidden Assets was a fresh take on the police procedural genre when it arrived on Acorn TV in early 2022. The series was an Irish-Belgian co-production that came at the endless Irish gang mystery trope from a new angle, that of the CAB, the Criminal Assets Bureau, located in Shannon,
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Streamer Acorn TV has announced it will exclusively premiere the 2022 limited series Mayflies this October, a heartfelt exploration of male friendship and the lengths we're willing to go to for the people we care most about. Based on Andrew O’Hagan’s bestselling (and award-winning!) 2020 novel