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The BBC and BritBox have released the first-look pictures of the highly-anticipated 2025 series Riot Women. The brand-new drama, initially titled Hot Flush*, hails from Sally Wainwright (Last Tango in Halifax) and will be her latest entry into what has become something of a history-making career.
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With the financial backing of the BBC and Robert Schildhouse as its new CEO, BritBox has a new lease on life for 2025. The U.K.-centric streamer, initially a joint project between the BBC and ITV to prevent international piracy of iPlayer and ITV's streaming service, was
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Critically acclaimed Channel 4 comedy The Change arrived on BritBox last summer to relatively little fanfare. This isn't a huge surprise, given the glut of content we're asked to sift through daily, it's likely that many simply didn't hear enough about the
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David Mitchell’s latest project, Ludwig, is a genre mashup series that technically falls under the category of a police procedural but is more a little bit of everything, considering that the lead is a well-known comedian. Referred to by the BBC as a “case-of-the-week mystery-
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It's January 2025, which means the third decade of the 21st century is officially halfway over. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the platform launch that arguably kicked off the streaming revolution: YouTube. Yes, YouTube; the streaming platform was the initial way pirating TV series commercial-free
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As it has since 1996, Silent Witness will return to the BBC along with the brand new year. (Though the series has shifted around the calendar over the three decades since it launched, it tends to favor debuts in January/February, with the bulk of the seasons debuting in the
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Television police dramas tend to follow a predictable formula. There’s the dogged detective who solves the crimes no one else can. Said detective is usually great at their job but very bad at their romantic life. They also typically are juggling problems at home. The new BritBox series Protection
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BritBox and Channel 4 initially announced they would team up to produce Travels with Agatha Christie with David Suchet in June 2024. The five-part docuseries features David Suchet, the man who became a household name playing the author’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, paying it back by uncovering
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Channel 5 first announced it was commissioning a new thriller starring PBS favorite Allen Leech, at the time under the working title The Hunted, in the spring of 2023. At the time, filming was about to commence, and the network had the new four-part series slated to arrive late
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The detective series Vera is one of the few pervasively popular British cozy crime shows that reached household name status without ever officially airing on PBS. The show's first four seasons played as one-off reruns on local public broadcasting stations from 2011-2014, but starting with Season
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The routine acceptance of LGBTQ+ presenting/identifying people in Western society is a relatively recent phenomenon. The U.S. and U.K. legalizing marriage for all is barely a decade old; the U.K.'s Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act went into effect in March 2014, the U.S.
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BritBox has snapped up the buzzy ITV comedy drama Douglas Is Cancelled for its spring line-up, the latest project from former Doctor Who and Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat, which aims to explore sexism, professional gender politics, social media, and cancel culture. It arrives at a timely moment when it