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It’s very easy to be charmed by the over-ambitious BritBox thriller. It’s tough to pinpoint precisely when and how the implausible small-town crime saga became one of British TV’s most bankable returns on investment. However, British telly writers have many too-complicated-for-soaps storylines brewing in their heads. When
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Even before the BBC bought out BritBox International to make it the new streaming home of the British Broadcast Corporation, the service had gone all in on BAFTA, signing on to become the exclusive streaming home of both the annual Film and Television Awards, along with picking up the Oliviers
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Few things in life are certain, but the constant turnover within the police department on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie might be one of them. Heading into its fourteenth season, Death in Paradise has officially named its fifth actor to take over the role of lead detective. Don
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In 2022, the BBC landed a trio of unexpected gritty hits about the realities of crime and law enforcement. Time, originally a stand-alone miniseries starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, brought in ratings so high that it was turned into an anthology series, the second season of which recently aired
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For those who have not gotten a chance to watch Beyond Paradise’s Season 2 finale, the top half of this post will remain spoiler-free, but it will shock no one that the second the episode ended, the BBC and BritBox dropped a press release announcing the series had been
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Since the beginning of Hope Street, the Northern Ireland set police procedural has been a revolving door of cast. Season 1 kicked off with the arrival of DC Leila Hussain (Amara Karan) to the small town of Port Devine. She'd been transferred as part of a protection program
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Broadcaster ITV confirmed that fan favorite Vera is stepping down from the police force. In a surprise Earth Day announcement, the U.K. broadcaster said the series would conclude with Season 14, which has currently started filming and it expected to continue into the summer of 2024. Rumors had been
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It seems hard to believe that there was no long-running English-language adaptation of Father Brown until the BBC commissioned the Mark Williams-starrer in 2012. However, other than an Austrian series in the late 1960s and a German one in the early aughts, the only major series made prior to the
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Streaming platforms have a way of making everything old new again. Look no further than people discovering Suits and Sex and the City on Netflix. Or the fact that those who weren’t even born when Friends premiered now binge-watch the show on Max. Trigger Point, the 2022 British series
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BritBox announced last month that the good Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson) would return for Season 3 of Sister Boniface Mysteries in April, as the most popular of the streaming service's spinoffs of long-running BBC series gears up for another round of mysteries. But it wasn't until
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McDonald & Dodds is one of the lesser-known British police procedurals on this side of the pond, which is a shame because it has everything going for it. The formulaic premise, a streetwise former Metropolitan Police investigator arrives in a picturesque tourist town to head up the Criminal Investigation Department,
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Awards season may have ended for film, but for live theater and television, the season is hitting the main event, as those disciplines still function on seasons that begin in the summer and end in the spring. While the Emmys will wait until the fall to hand out statues, late