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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
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Australia's leading streaming service, Stan, initially commissioned Black Snow as a standalone miniseries in 2022, with Travis Finnel (Dune: Prophecy) attached to lead the crime drama as Detective James Cormack. Billed as a "coming-of-age whodunit," Season 1 focused on a 1990s-era small-town murder that rocked North
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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
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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
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Nicole Kidman first discussed adapting Liane Moriarty's The Last Anniversary in 2019, near the end of the pre-pandemic era. She was coming off the success of Big Little Lies, based on Moriarty's best-selling novel, followed by the whodunit thriller The Undoing, both of which aired/streamed
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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
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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
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Streamers Sundance Now and Acorn TV are joining forces to bring the seven-part British sci-fi horror series The Midwich Cuckoos to the U.S. just in time for spooky season. Based on the perennially popular 1957 John Wyndham novel of the same name, the show originally aired on U.K.
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According to the temperature readings, it may still be summer, but the Julian calendar does not lie: Sunday, September 22, was the autumnal equinox, which means we've reached the official first week of fall. Decorative gourds abound, the pumpkin spice must flow, and cozy mystery season is right