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There’s nothing cool about a live awards telecast – the scripted bits, teleprompter dependence, and constant pauses to wait for talent in transit sucks a lot of the snappy pizazz that a night of celebrating artists deserves. Added to this is the fact that British showmanship feels weirdly forced and
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Death in Paradise has yet to debut its current season (Season 14) in the U.S. on BritBox, but the first couple of episodes are out in the U.K. after the show debuted at the end of January 2025 across the pond. More importantly, so is the news that
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ITV recently confirmed that filming for Trigger Point Season 3 had commenced in the U.K., an unsurprising development considering the show's viewership numbers in the U.K. made Season 2 the second-most-watched drama series on ITVX. However, for those who have been keeping their ears
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The BAFTAs return for another year, with the first of two annual events arriving just after Valentine's Day. The British Academy Film Awards, the first of the two events covering British Film and Television, is now nearly 80 years in and continues to honor the best work on
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Everyone wants to believe they’d know how to carry out the perfect coverup, especially in today’s true-crime-obsessed world. Welsh noir drama Tree on a Hill/Pren ar y Bryn paints an absurd yet much more realistic picture of what happens when a mediocre couple gets in
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It’s rare for the BBC to greenlight more than one season at a time, and certainly not before the current one has aired, which is why the announcement the network was giving Blue Lights a third and fourth season before Season 2 arrived in early 2024 was a bit
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Hotel Portofino was about halfway through Season 3 in the summer of 2024 when Eagle Eye Drama's Jo McGrath, the studio behind the series, revealed there were plans for a second series set in Italy. As part of the public-facing Eagle Eye team along with Walter Iuzzolino,
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Most Americans probably first encountered That Mitchell & Webb Look in syndication on BBC America in the early 2010s or streaming on Hulu and Netflix in the twenty-teens. Titular stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb were already quite popular in the U.K., first breaking out with The Mitchell
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All four episodes of Captivated, the psychological thriller miniseries about single mom Rachel (Kara Tointon) and her son Liam (Charlie Hodson-Prior), dropped on BritBox at once last week; with four installments all told, we've split our recap into two parts. The first half of the series saw
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It’s time for another entry into the canon of psychological thrillers about single mothers with young sons (it’s a more common trope than you’d think). The latest take on the genre is Captivated, a four-part miniseries starring Kara Tointon (Mr. Selfridge) as Rachel, a young mother
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Death in Paradise starts a new era in 2025 with the casting of the show's fifth lead detective in under fifteen years. After a few years each of various unmarried middle-class white men whose privileged lives lead them to be cranky about being assigned to one of
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If you love Wales and Welsh culture but have somehow only ever managed to watch Welcome to Wrexham, it’s time to fix your life. Welsh dramas are growing in terms of both volume and popularity. With the rise of what’s commonly referred to as “Welsh noir,” stories like