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Changing lead actors several years into a long-running series is never easy. Even though shows like Call The Midwife and Doctor Who make it look easy, it's always risky when Grantchester changes vicars or Unforgotten brings in a new Detective Chief Inspector. The longer the series goes with
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BritBox may have been bought out by the BBC at the end of February, but change is not in the cards for the British streaming service, at least not right away. The going theory in circles right now is that BBC didn't buy BritBox to change how the
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Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty didn't so much end as disappear without a word after its sixth season, the most watched to date. The show was the BBC's biggest hit at the time, but in true U.K. TV fashion, it just never got
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Season 2 of Beyond Paradise, the Kris Marshall-led spinoff of Death in Paradise, finally has landed a release date. Season 13 of Death in Paradise is currently airing in. the U.K. and streaming on BritBox in the U.S., and on the same day it concludes in each country,
Murder Is Easy
In the newest Agatha Christie adaptation, Murder is Easy, Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) and Bridget Conway (Morfydd Clark) put their amateur sleuthing skills to use investigating murders in the small English town of Wychwood. Initially released in December 2023 in the UK, this nimble reworking of a lesser-known classic became
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BritBox was initially launched at the beginning of March 2017, as a joint project between the BBC and ITV. At the time, it was the first streaming service that promised to bring British programming straight out of the U.K. from the BBC and ITV directly to Americans without them
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In 1954, Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) meets Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton) on a London-bound train and learns of suspicious deaths in the opening scenes of Murder is Easy, the newest Agatha Christie adaptation from the BBC and BritBox. A sumptuous visual feast, this two-part limited series excels at adapting a
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Last week, just ahead of London's major TV showcase, the BBC's new Head of Drama, Lindsey Salt, put her stake in the ground with a dozen shows greenlit for 2024. As Telly Visions noted, 11 of those were brand-new series, a daring proposition in an era
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It's been a while since American viewers heard anything about ITVX's Passenger (not to be confused with the Channel 4 series Passengers, which ended in the mid-aughts), confirmed in August 2023 to be debuting stateside on BritBox. ITVX included it in the end-of-year look ahead for
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There's good news for BBC comedy fans, as renewals and new series have been greenlit for the British Broadcaster for 2024. While American networks were trotting out their best series for Spring at the Television Critics Association Winter press tour, the BBC Director of Comedy, Jon Petrie, announced
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BritBox has announced that the second season of Jimmy McGovern's (Broken) award-winning prison drama Time will arrive on the streaming service in March, though its cast and story will look decidedly different than its first. The first season of Time starred Sean Bean (Marriage) and Stephen Graham (Bodies)
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With the success of Why Didn't They Ask Evans and Murder Is Easy, the BBC and BritBox are wasting no time announcing their next co-production of an Agatha Christie miniseries. The next book to get the 21st century updated treatment will be the 1944 novel Towards Zero, which,