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Christmas comes but once a year; however, when it comes to U.K. Christmas specials of fan-favorite series, it seems any time of year will do. For example, with the running exception of Call the Midwife, PBS has never aired any of the Christmas episodes from their imported and
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Police procedurals and "cozy crime" series have been a staple of television since its inception. Not just Law & Order type series like Dragnet, but Agatha Christie style mysteries based on novels, where small picturesque places find themselves involved in murder. One reason the genre has such enduring
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The adventure series Nautilus has had a long and torturous path to the screen. The series began its life as a Disney+ project, but it was shelved back in 2023 as part of a series of cost-cutting measures. (Its budget was said to have run into the hundreds of
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After six months of pondering what was up with The Madame Blanc Mysteries, AMC Networks and Acorn TV have finally announced a Season 4 premiere date. Fans will recall that Acorn TV, the leading producer of the series alongside the U.K.'s Channel 5, had traditionally treated the
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Acorn TV is known as an alternative streaming service to BritBox. The latter is British-centric, where Acorn TV tends to pick up English-language shows from everywhere but the U.K., including New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Ireland. However, the race to become the American home for Welsh
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It's been nearly two years since Black Bear Pictures initially announced the horror film Whistle. The film, based on the short story of the same name by author Owen Egerton, was part of the small group of films that were announced for production in October 2023, months into
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Part of the fun of watching big costume dramas like Downton Abbey or Bridgerton is seeing what the cast gets up to when their time wearing period dress has come to an end. In the years since Downton transferred to the big screen, former stars like Dan Stevens and Lily
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No one can deny that one of the significant appeals of historical series is the sweeping vistas and landscapes, not to mention the ancient architecture and buildings. This is also true of contemporary series; for instance, Death in Paradise is all about getting to stare at the Caribbean in the
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Despite technically referring to two completely different languages, the word "Gaelic" is one that's fraught with emotional baggage in the U.K., as the last century saw the Irish variant become the language of rebellion and terrorists in the most recent major bout of "The
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It's no secret that AMC Networks, the parent company that owns AMC+, BBC America, Shudder, Sundance Now, Acorn TV, and several others, is not performing well in the current phase of the streaming wars. The only owner of multiple streaming services not to roll up all its offerings
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It's a truth universally acknowledged that the entertainment industry is reticent to take risks on unknowns. It's why there are so many shows based on pre-existing properties, spawned from books, video games, films, and even other television series. Often these sequels, prequels, and tangentially adjacent
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So far in 2025, BritBox has been on a tear, with enough British hits from ITV and the BBC in the first four months to be considered genuine competition to PBS and Masterpiece. It's been an interesting turn of events, especially compared to Acorn TV, which has been