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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mrs. Sidhu Investigates ended its first season Monday, October 9 (just in time for Canadian Thanksgiving!) with an episode that finds our intrepid caterer (played to perfection by Meera Syal) searching for a kidnapped boxer. Over the course of the season’s four episodes, Mrs. Sidhu, while preparing lattes and
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Acorn TV's latest mystery, the delightful BBC 4 audio drama turned TV series Mrs. Sidhu Investigates, concludes just in time for Canadian Thanksgiving, a proper end for a show about a caterer who goes around feeding everyone as she solves the crimes at hand. The series, conceived by
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Do you prefer murder mysteries that don’t make you think too hard? Where, in the final five minutes of an episode, the criminal conveniently takes the time to confess all that they’ve done, including the how and the why? Why wait for legal representation and a trial? This