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BBC America was once best known as a chief importer of British programming for American audiences — and still is to some degree, if only as the U.S. linear broadcast home of Doctor Who. However, the rise of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon, with their expansive libraries and significant
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The Television Critics Association press tour last week focused heavily on the non-British offerings coming from the AMC Networks stable of streaming services and cable channels and the long-term offerings for the 2023 slate. But buried in the press releases, one title anglophiles have been eagerly awaiting got a release
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Acorn TV has been steadily releasing new detective series since the beginning of 2022, including titles like Hidden Assets, Darby and Joan, and the upcoming Recipes for Love & Murder. But other than The Chelsea Detective, these new offerings have seen no movement on being renewed. (The Chelsea Detective Season
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AMC Networks' most prominent TV channels are its flagship namesake cable network AMC and its acquired British-centric companion, BBC America. Likewise, its most prominent streamers are its flagship namesake streaming service AMC+ and its acquired British-centric companion Acorn TV. But AMCN has also recently been working hard to raise
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Over the past few years, most of the non-U.K. offerings on Acorn TV have usually hailed from down under, either Australia or New Zealand, with a few Irish or Canadian shows thrown in for good measure and a couple of Scandi-noir series as foreign language offerings. But the streaming
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Orphan Black was a big surprise hit for BBC America in 2013. The Canadian sci-fi thriller television series by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett launched the career of She-Hulk's Tatiana Maslany. Though the series concluded in 2017, it has already spawned a comic book series, audio dramas, and
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With the rise of the hit Line of Duty, and Jed Mercutio's Hat Trick Productions pumping out fast-paced police procedurals to great acclaim, it's little wonder the U.K. airwaves may feel a little dominated by law enforcement cases and crime stories. These shows always seek
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Netflix's recent wave of successful true crime documentaries and docu-series—covering topics both serious and off-the-wall—has inspired a wave of true crime dramatizations on other networks and streaming platforms. Netflix does Tiger King, and Peacock does Joe vs. Carole; Netflix does The Staircase as a documentary, and
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Adam Kay's debut novel, This Is Going To Hurt, a comedic look at the dark side of the National Health Service focused on gynecology and obstetrics ward, was a national best-seller when it was released in the U.K. The TV adaptation, which premiered on the BBC earlier
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It's been nearly two years since the first season of Gangs of London arrived on our screens, but the sprawling gangland drama is finally set to return later this year. Loosely based on the 2006 video game of the same name (yes, really), the series explores how various
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Some spy-thrillers run forever, like the James Bond film series, which has just finished with leading man Daniel Craig and is now actively looking to cast the seventh official iteration of the character. (If you count non-official ones, it's number nine.) Bond has been able to do that
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Despite what you may have heard, Netflix is not dead. The streaming service is still head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to a subscriber user base, and though the vast majority of its ~60 originals that it churns out every month may be utter junk, it is