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Acorn TV
Even if you knew nothing about streaming or ratings, it would be evident that Acorn TV is AMC Network's only genuinely successful streaming service out of all its little niche offerings, even more than the "flagship" service AMC+. Even if you didn't know Acorn
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After last week’s introduction to the formula, Inspector Ellis’ second episode opens with the titular detective and her bagman, DS Chet Harper, summoned to Callorwell Police Station in England’s picturesque Peak Region. Awaiting them is suspected drug dealer Carla Duffy (Orla Charlton), gleefully watching the clock tick down;
Acorn TV
The Acorn TV series Hidden Assets is one of those crime shows that has flown under the radar in America, and with good reason. The Irish-Belgian RTE co-production series stands out as odd among the cozy crime drama world's offerings. There's no small village; everyone is
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
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Acorn TV’s new three-part crime drama Inspector Ellis is in the classic mold of engrossing, emotionally nuanced series such as Morse and Dalgleish, with the welcome and long-overdue update of being led by a Black woman. Veteran stage and screen actress Sharon D Clarke (Doctor Who) brings a compelling
Acorn TV
It took over two years for the newest adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos to arrive in the U.S. after it aired and streamed on SkyMax in mid-2022, doubling the length of its title along the way to become The Midwich Cuckoos: Villiage of the Damned (possibly as a reminder
Acorn TV
Acorn TV and Channel 5 have finally set a release date for the first season of Inspector Ellis, or Ellis, as it's called in the U.K. (American TV has a tradition of adding the "Inspector" to these sorts of show titles; think ITV's
Acorn TV
The first modern classic film my mother and I ever agreed on was Clueless, the 1995 Alicia Silverstone film in which she plays Cher, a modern-day version of Jane Austen's classic heroine, Emma. The American-born actor recently made a career comeback after dropping off the radar for a
Acorn TV
Acorn TV is, far and away, the most well-known and most watched of all the AMC Network streamers. Originally a standalone niche streamer launched by Acorn Media (the people who brought you the DVD sets of almost every British show that aired on PBS in the 1990s and 2000s), AMC
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Whitstable Pearl finally returns to Acorn TV for Season 3 in October 2024, more than two years since the show last streamed new episodes. Unlike some of the streaming service's other female-led cozy crime series, star Kerry Godliman, who plays the titular Pearl Nolan, isn't at
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One of the BBC's more surprising hits during the lockdown era was Showtrial, a five-episode series that, while not particularly subtle in its themes, was a propulsively watchable legal drama, diving into the kind of case that gets called "Trial of the Century," even when there